Radiolab

Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

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Baby Shark

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.Today, the strange, squirmy magic behind how sharks make more sharks. Drills....

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Mystery Bay

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

This is episode four of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.Alison Kock was working at a car wash in Cape Town when she made a discovery...

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The Shark Inside You

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

This is episode three of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.Today, we take a trip across the world, from the south coast of Australia to...

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The Cage

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

This is episode two of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.Jaws spawned a thousand imitators: sharks in tornados, sharks in avalanches, s...

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Making a Monster

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.Rodney Fox went into the ocean one summer day in 1963. He came out barely alive, his b...

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Double-Blasted

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

We first aired this episode in 2012, but at the show we’ve been thinking a lot about resilience and repair so we wanted to play it for you again today...

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The Elixir of Life

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

Doctor and special correspondent, Avir Mitra takes Lulu on an epic journey live on stage at a little basement club called Caveat, here in New York. St...

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A Flock of Two

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffer...

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The Echo in the Machine

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s friction...

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How to Cure What Ails You

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to beha...

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The Age of Aquaticus

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73℃/163℉.  At that temperature, everything boiled to death. But scientists Tom Brock and Hudson...

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Ghosts in the Green Machine

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

In honor of our Earth, on her day, we have two stories about the overlooked, ignored, and neglected parts of nature. In the first half, we learn about...

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Killer Empathy

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

In an episode first aired in 2012, Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor at the University of Wyoming, who spent a part of his caree...

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Malthusian Swerve

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we?In this episode, we partnered with the team at Planet Money to take stock of the esse...

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Everybody's Got One

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. this story isn’t th...