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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.
263 episodes transcribedThe Spark of Life
Episode Date: September 19, 2025In the 1920s, a Russian biologist studying onion roots made a surprising discovery: underground, down in the darkness, it seemed like the cells inside...
Los Frikis
Episode Date: September 12, 2025How a group of 80’s Cuban misfits found rock-and-roll and created a revolution within a revolution, going into exile without ever leaving home. Repor...
Screaming Into the Void
Episode Date: September 5, 2025In August we performed a live taping of the show from a theater perched on the edge of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River, overshadowed by the wi...
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
Episode Date: August 22, 2025As he finished his medical residency exam, David Fajgenbaum felt off. He walked down to the ER and checked himself in. Soon he was in the ICU with m...
Weighing Good Intentions
Episode Date: August 15, 2025In an episode first released in 2010, then-producer Lulu Miller drives to Michigan to track down the endangered Kirtland’s warbler. Efforts to protect...
The Menopause Mystery
Episode Date: August 8, 2025Until recently, scientists assumed humans were the only species in which females went through menopause, and lived a substantial part of their lives a...
Galaxy Quenching
Episode Date: August 1, 2025This week: the story of astrophysicist Charity Woodrum. Charity is an extragalactic astronomer who studies the life and death of galaxies, why some ga...
The Nothing Behind Everything
Episode Date: July 25, 2025This week, two conversations from the archives about parts of the world that are imperceptible to us, verging on almost unthinkable. We start with a m...
More Perfect: The Hate Debate
Episode Date: July 18, 2025Back in 2017 our colleagues at More Perfect gathered a room full of people together to debate a straight forward question: Can free speech go too far?...
Desperately Seeking Symmetry
Episode Date: July 11, 2025This hour of Radiolab, former co-hosts Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our v...
On [The Divided Dial]: Fishing In The Night
Episode Date: July 4, 2025Have you heard On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial? It’s awesome and you should, and now you will. In this episode they tell the st...
Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud
Episode Date: June 27, 2025Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution.What does a betrayed lover’s revenge have to do wi...
Baby Shark
Episode Date: June 20, 2025This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.Today, the strange, squirmy magic behind how sharks make more sharks. Drills....
Mystery Bay
Episode Date: June 19, 2025This 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...
The Shark Inside You
Episode Date: June 18, 2025This 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...
Making a Monster
Episode Date: June 16, 2025Episode 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...
Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks
Episode Date: June 13, 2025In the summer of 1975, Jaws scared an entire generation out of the water. The film burned an idea into our cultural memory: they are mindless, man-eat...