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.

What is Your Science Policy ? 08/23/2025

What is Your Science Policy ? This Week: Interview with Adriana Bankston, Jakalopes, Bat Hugs, Mystery Skull, Autism, Flowers for Robots, Baby Brains, Decoding Inner Speech, Space Threats, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37928500

Prompting You to Think Scientifically 08/08/2025

Prompting You to Think Scientifically This Week: Funding State, mRNA HIV vaccine, Radioactive rhino horn, Wasting Source, Editing Diabetes, Roaches, Cockatoos, GLP1, Snails, Roach Bots, Political Sway, and Much More to Prompt You to Think Scientifically! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37730510

This is the Science You Can Trust 08/01/2025

This is the Science You Can Trust This Week: Atomic Slits, Vaccines Work, Wifi Fingerprint, Ancient Teeth, Deep Life, Fat for Tumors, Immunity in your head, Cultural Function, Brain Generics, and Much More Science you can trust! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37631395

Guided by Science 07/25/2025

Guided by Science This Week: Interview W/Matthew Facciani, Australia, Stonehenge, Blood Pressure, Moth Dreams, Friendly Brains, Replication Win, Undoing Strokes, Meaning & Memory, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37547860

What WILL We Never Know? 07/11/2025

What WILL We Never Know? This Week: A Different Science Fair, Cucumbers, Zoonotic Time Travel, Tortoises, Crabs, Chimps, New Brain Cells, Dance Brains, and Much More Science to Know! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37374235

Does This Show Need a Science Title? 07/06/2025

Does This Show Need a Science Title? This Week: LLM-assisted writing, Exercise Pills, Long Lived Mice, Scotland's Birds, Orcas' Pets, Fish Schools, High Elevation Scents, Climate Change, Triglycerides, Spatial Cognition, and Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37292225

The Future of Science Starts Now 06/28/2025

The Future of Science Starts Now This Week: Vera's First Look, Dragons, Fertility. Anthrobots, Vascular Organoids, Orcas, Octopi, Car T, Type 1 Cure, Ears, Glow Brains, Morning Chorus, and Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37201075

Arach-did-you-know?? 06/20/2025

Arach-did-you-know?? This Week: Early Humans, Terriers, T Gondii, Spiders, Sugar Substitute, Weight Loss Drug, Weight Loss, Live Longer Eat More, and Much More Science on this Episode! /episode/index/show/twis/id/37091665

Panel? More like Shamel! 06/13/2025

Panel? More like Shamel! This Week: Sham Panel, Strategic Hawks, Chimps, Cucumbers, and Bats Fight Cancer, Napping Bees, and Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36980080

Just Banging Rocks on Trees 06/05/2025

Just Banging Rocks on Trees This Week: Science State, Frogs, Light Limits, Trash Parrot Update, A Tiny Violin, Baboons and Rocks, Birds Flying Far North, Garbage Gull, Making Myelin, Mouth Tape, and Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36879960

Do Dolphins Discuss Science? 05/23/2025

Do Dolphins Discuss Science? This Week: CRISPR, Government-Sanctioned Mass Extinction, Bugs in Space, Shrinking Clownfish, Bees Sleep, Dolphins Talk, Blocking Cell Death, Toothy Origins, and Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36691700

Librarians Will Save Democracy 05/16/2025

Librarians Will Save Democracy This Week: Science, Knowledge, & Power, Forever Chemicals, AI Exaggeration, Internal Inference, Prey Trapping, Labile Language, Librarians Saving Democracy, and Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36587645

Science! You Get What You Pay For! 05/09/2025

Science! You Get What You Pay For! This Week: Tiny Life, Human Fungus, Honeyguides, Survey Says, Vaccines and Menstruation, Art with Porpoise, Cuttlefish, Shrimp, Brain Computer Interface, Neanderthals, Tiny Town, On Being, and Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36509500

When is a Power Grid a Metaphor? 05/02/2025

When is a Power Grid a Metaphor? This Week: Black Start, Bird Flu, Zoo Life, Blonde Beer, Anti-Microbiotic, Hippie Spiders, Real Pokemon, NIH, Musically Speaking, Screaming Trees, Electrome Eclipse, and Much More Science Power! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36406630

Can We Capture All The Carbon? 04/26/2025

Can We Capture All The Carbon? This Week: Interview W/Natan Shahar, Carbon Capturing, Gator Biting, Fur Babies, Cow Burps, Climate Change Cost, Canceling Women Studies, Life in Spce, Deathbots, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36320400

You Can't Trust This 04/18/2025

You Can't Trust This This Week: Scalable Meat, Marriage, Gorillas, Crpws, Gowanus Canal, Fiddler Crabs, Bird Song, Cats, Healthcare, Sensory, and Much More Science you can trust! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36216810

How Dire is the Science News? 04/11/2025

How Dire is the Science News? This Week: Not Dire Wolves, Miso & Moonglass, Bad Dogs, Mouse Brains & Human Intelligence, Inflammation & Behavior, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36092875

It's Just so Taxing 04/04/2025

It's Just so Taxing This Week: Reverence for Youth, Venom, Fossils, Bird Disguises, Bats, Bird Road Rage, NDEs, Global Warming, Taxing Science, And Much More! /episode/index/show/twis/id/36008860

Where is the Group Chat for Science? 03/27/2025

Where is the Group Chat for Science? This Week: Pig Livers, Planet Power, Meme Coin, Grabby Glucose, Genomic Bottleneck, Lithium Mining, Baby Brains, Shark Sounds, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35892855

Can You Hear Us Now? 03/20/2025

Can You Hear Us Now? This Week: Space Landings, Euclid, Sound Bending, CRISPR, Tsunamis, The Avacado Connection, Mouse Morticians, Mouse Chatter, Bird Chatter, And Much More Science to Hear! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35796240

Knowledge Dies in Silence 03/14/2025

Knowledge Dies in Silence This Week: Space, Space, and More Space!, Plastic Plant Problems, Bigger Cells, Democracy & Murder?, East Asian Lineage, Alzheimer's, It's All in Your Head, And Much More Science Knowledge! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35682025

Time Keeps On Slippin' 03/07/2025

Time Keeps On Slippin' This Week: Firefly & Astronauts, Weekends and Surgeries, Narwhal Tooth, Fusion Update, Heart Health Watch, Sound Spring, Sharks, Rat Sommeliers, Processed Foods, Mediterranean Diet, AI, Synthetic Intelligence, Love Types, And Much More Time for Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35570705

Need a Few Science Talking Points? 02/28/2025

Need a Few Science Talking Points? This Week: The Stellarator!, Animal Emotions AI, Islet Surgery, Stressed Monkeys, Animal Awareness, Oxygen Pill, More Memory, Melatonin, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35483310

The Science of Psyops 02/20/2025

The Science of Psyops This Week: Interview W/Annalee Newitz, Fish, Fruit Flies, Not So Sweetner, Anti-bacterial Anti-depressants, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35370010

Oops All Animal Corner 02/14/2025

Oops All Animal Corner This Week: Blair's Animal Corner, Baby Turtles, Mantis Shrimp, Flies, And Much More! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35281030

Has The Science Bell Been Rung? 02/07/2025

Has The Science Bell Been Rung? This Week: Science In Danger?, Frogs, Better Pain, Revive Your System, Octopus, Bats, Mice, Active Listening, And Much More! /episode/index/show/twis/id/35187215

We Predict This is 1000 Weeks of TWIS 01/24/2025

We Predict This is 1000 Weeks of TWIS This Week: Predictions from 2024, We Predict for 2025: Dark Matter, AI, Quantum Computing, Space Exploration, Universal Flu Vaccine, TWIS Experimentation, Space X, Mitochondria, Fusion Tech, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/34989590

TWIS Out Of Time 01/17/2025

TWIS Out Of Time This Week: The End Of Social Social Media, Climate Collusion, Researcher Targets, Smelly Spider Legs, Ants with Grudges, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/34890970

2024 Top Science Stories Review 01/10/2025

2024 Top Science Stories Review This Week: What does This Week in Science think were the year's top science stories? This end-of-year episode counts down the Top 11 science news stories of 2024 and much more science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/34798985

What Will TWISmas Bring? 12/21/2024

What Will TWISmas Bring? This Week: Mirror Life Questions, Cats, Moon Rocks Redux, Frosty Weather Neanderthals, Carnivorous Squirrels, Giraffes, Sleepless Science, Eating Your Age, Thought vs Sensation, Cafe Calm, And Much More Science! /episode/index/show/twis/id/34559985

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