This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

The kickass science and technology radio show that delivers an irreverent look at the week in science and technology.

Play Around With Science! 11/22/2024

Play Around With Science! This Week: Mouse Genes, Neander-games, DESI News Update!, Haunted House study, First Nation agriculture, Hallucination, Backyard Bird Learning, Monkees, AI Poetry, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/34103026

Science Is Better When Done Together 11/15/2024

Science Is Better When Done Together This Week: CO2, Dark Matter, Infection Diagnosis, Stem Cells, Breast Cancer, The UN, Bored People, Depression Help, Nervous System Work Out, Tired & Angry, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33941097

Science for the Greater Good 11/01/2024

Science for the Greater Good This Week: Interview W/Juliana Tafur, In the Mirror, Pregnancy Brain, Why Clowns, Bridging Differences, 7-Day Challenge, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33721387

How Much Toilet Water Would You Drink? 10/25/2024

How Much Toilet Water Would You Drink? This Week: Interview W/Dr. Steven V. Rouse, Tasmanian Tigers, Ovulation, Toilet Water, Doulas, Global Warming, Polarizing People, Human Biased, The Next Jaws, And Much More! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33607517

Some JWSTful Thinking About the Universe 10/18/2024

Some JWSTful Thinking About the Universe Interview W/Ethan Siegel, Clipper Sets Sail, Galactic Billiards, Hidden Tomb, Dental Reality Check, Jedi Rats, Lion Diet, Elephant Wrinkles, And A Whole Universe of More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33508852

Who Are The Science Winners? 10/11/2024

Who Are The Science Winners? This Week: It's Nobel Time!!!, Pessimistic Bees, Birds Of A Foot, Plunging Biodiversity?, Combining Jellies, Run Time?, Distant Mirror, DNA Maps, Eating Alzheimer's, Divided Days, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33415282

Slapfight Science Night 10/01/2024

Slapfight Science Night This Week: It's Climate Week!, Bacterial Quick Change, Pollinators, Bronze-Age Cheese, Ancient AI, Magma Soup, Snake Origins, Ant Queens, Mile High Microbiota, Weird Galaxies, Virtual Fish Maze, Man Brain Cycle, Slapfights, Sleep On It, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33281947

Take Out The Trash, Pour out the Cats 09/20/2024

Take Out The Trash, Pour out the Cats This Week: It's IgNobel Time!, Thermal Collecting Coral, PLANT NEWS, Nanobreath, Food Dye Discovery, Get Out The Trash, Earth Rings, Bumblebee Memories, Decoy Dolphins, Liquid Cats, Spy Squids, Human Cement, ChatGTP does Good?, Learning By Thinking, Memory Trash, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33133662

Have We Learned Anything? 09/13/2024

Have We Learned Anything? This Week: Private Space, Welcome Home Starliner!!!, Fungal Factors, Deep Sea Dinner Bell, Food Dye Discovery, Peer review fraud detection, Egg Spa, Sperm Relief, ALAN is Back, How do I Look?, Don't Eat Eels, Neander News, Crackpot Physics, Craving Activity, Anatomy of Consciousness, And Much More Science to be Learned! /episode/index/show/twis/id/33032907

Will Robots Labor For Us? 09/06/2024

Will Robots Labor For Us? This Week: Space Sails & Winds, Starliners Return, Radiant Cooling, Butterfly Wings, Dog Toys, Cat Play, Shark Hunts, Viking Culture, Thar Be Gold, ShroomBots, Neo Beta Unveiled, And More Science Robots! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32938372

Stuck in Spaaaaaace! 08/30/2024

Stuck in Spaaaaaace! This Week: Stucktronauts, Material Questions, Frozen Remains, Genetics Grammar, Megalithic mystery solved, Culling Crocodiles, Antlions Play Opossum, Sweet Bat News, NASA DART, Pong Goo, Brain Attack!, And Much More Science to get stuck with! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32804992

Wow! How Do We Know That? 08/23/2024

Wow! How Do We Know That? This Week: Not So Wow, Global Humidification, Dodo'd, Electron Excitement, Food Delivery, Humpback Whales, Spiders, Mammoths, Better Brain Movies, Building Memories, Photonic Consciousness, And Much More Science to Know! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32708147

Is This A Mayo-Science Fusion Podcast? 08/15/2024

Is This A Mayo-Science Fusion Podcast? This Week: Crusty Content, More Mayo!, Horses, Lemurs, Hot Hearing, Shifting Values, Music Helps!, Memory Mechanism, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32595657

Will Science Take Us From Tropes to Hopes on This Oblate Sphere... oid? 08/09/2024

Will Science Take Us From Tropes to Hopes on This Oblate Sphere... oid? This Week: Interview W/Dr. Emily Fischer, Cats, Dogs, COVID and Flu Nasal Vaccines, Concrete, Greenland, Thick Leaves, Sea Lions, Racing Horses, Starliner, Early Evolution, Rock Art, Brains, Earbud Fatigue, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32508872

How is Science Just Like the Olympics? 08/01/2024

How is Science Just Like the Olympics? This Week: The Nose Knows, COVID-19 in Wildlife, Flying Hippos, Warp Drive, CBG, Toxo for Good, Komodo Dragons, Snakes, Doctors, Firearms, No Buy AI, Agents of Fear, Attractive Odors, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32387907

Is This Tractor Beam Hope? 07/26/2024

Is This Tractor Beam Hope? This Week: Dark Oxygen, Breaking Heat Records, Tractor Beam?, Ancient Argentinien People, Static Butterflies, Avian Flu, Regeneration Genes, Common Gestures, Cuttlefish Falsehoods, Waste Management, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32299782

How Are Animals Better Than People? 07/19/2024

How Are Animals Better Than People? This Week: Space Shelter?, Boyz-Ah, Counting Poos, Cancer Donations, Plastic Proteins, Prime Bats, Seagulls prefer Seafood, Global Warming, Mushroom Chaos, Open Scope, Animals Society, Sense of Self, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32209462

How to Reprogram Your Brain 07/12/2024

How to Reprogram Your Brain This Week: Bat Hearts, Baby Brain, Bone Building, Absorbant solids, Flu Boobs, Black Holes, Big Bad Bacteria, Prime Editing, Ancient Theaters, Plauge Problems, Big Brains, Reprogramming for Good, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32107432

Free to Be Science-y 07/05/2024

Free to Be Science-y This Week: Dead Humans, Fungal Future, Ant News, 12,000-year-old Comet Dust, Little Bird Big Memory, Dead Mammoths, Chimp Pharmacist, Lemur Divas, Bat Lab, Sleep Apnea, Brain Bath, Algorithmic Accusations, Robot Faces, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/32019237

Is This The Science Awakening? 06/21/2024

Is This The Science Awakening? This Week: Awakening Or Snore?, Island Rats, Null Result Rats, Healer Army, Bird Flu, Hepatitis E, Plastic Penis Problems, Cancer Sniffing Bees, Boring Urban Birds, Dwindling Arousal, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/31831807

Making Science Popular with Vomiting Sharks 06/13/2024

Making Science Popular with Vomiting Sharks This Week: JWST, Supplements, Shark Vomit, Old in Space, Young in Space, Giraffes, Elephants, Bad Air, Brain Maps, Handy Babies, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/31739112

Take a Healthy Science Bath 06/07/2024

Take a Healthy Science Bath This Week: Space Success, H5N2, Toxo Trojan, Restoring Hearing, Water, Sponges, Policing Problems, AI Pathology, Menstruation Brain, Roman Bathing, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/31640762

How Now Science Cow? 05/30/2024

How Now Science Cow? This Week: NASA Psyche mission, Noise Cancelation, Indigenous Land Management, Forest Fires, Crows, Stick Insects, Cow Cuddling, Toddlers Love Robots, Dinosaur Brains, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/31540457

Something in This Show is Shocking! 05/23/2024

Something in This Show is Shocking! This Week: Shocking Stories, Solar Focus, Orange Rivers, Stress, Alzheimer's Hope, Grasslands, Falcons, New Sixth Sense, Elephants, Neanderthal Dating, Bird Brains, Mouse Monogamy, LARPing, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/31438042

Solar Flares Make All The People Look Up 05/17/2024

Solar Flares Make All The People Look Up This Week: People Looking Up, Milky Way Flares, Old Stars, Martian Dirt, Weaponized Beetles, Shark Food, Stone Age Bear, Orca, Flexible Neurons, Good Internet, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/31347177

Where Are All the Science Moms? 05/10/2024

Where Are All the Science Moms? This Week: Glueballs Exist!, Cows, Parrot Parents, Leprosy, Bad Business, Light Vaporization, Neanderface, Olive Oil, Hybrid Brains, Brain Scaffolding, Tiny Implants, Implant Abandonment, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/31225872

Science is in Our DNA 04/26/2024

Science is in Our DNA This Week: Computerized CRISPR, Gut Microbiota, Lava Lakes!, Diabetes, Synthetic Living Cells, Chickadee Memory, Artificial Sweetener, Consciousness for All, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/30994288

Put More Science in Video Games 04/19/2024

Put More Science in Video Games This Week: Bright Burst, Blackholes, Genetic Material, Neanderthal Woodshop, Gamer Games, Asteroid Games, Human Evolution, Going Ape, Bacterial Vampires, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/30895393

Want to Hear About Science Junk? 04/05/2024

Want to Hear About Science Junk? This Week: Guest Host , Barcode Birds, Molecular Transistors, Legs Or Junk, Speed of Vision, Naked Hearts, Don't Vent, Bacteri-leather, Robo-Mirror, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/30701913

Science for our Future Fossils 03/29/2024

Science for our Future Fossils This Week: Interview W/Michael Garfield, Broken Memories, Bigger Brains, Machine Learns Beer, Teens are the Goat, Tardii-people?, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/30589863

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