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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.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Episode Date: March 7, 2025In 2017 our sister show, More Perfect aired an episode all about RBG, In September of 2020, we lost Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the a...
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Revenge of the Miasma
Episode Date: February 28, 2025Today we uncover an invisible killer hidden, for over a hundred years, by reasonable disbelief. Science journalist extraordinaire Carl Zimmer tells us...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Episode Date: February 21, 2025Today, a story that starts small and private, with one woman alone in her bathroom, as she makes a quiet, startling discovery about her own body. But...
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Quantum Birds
Episode Date: February 14, 2025Annie McEwen went to a mountain in Pennsylvania to help catch some migratory owls. Then Scott Weidensaul peeled back the owl’s feathery face disc, so...
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Forever Fresh
Episode Date: January 31, 2025We eat apples in the summer and enjoy bananas in the winter. When we do this, we go against the natural order of life which is towards death and decay...
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The Darkest Dark
Episode Date: January 17, 2025We fall down the looking glass with Sönke Johnsen, a biologist who finds himself staring at one of the darkest things on the planet. So dark, it’s alm...
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Smarty Plants
Episode Date: January 10, 2025In an episode we first aired in 2018, we asked the question, do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? To remember? Or even learn? Wel...
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Match Made in Marrow
Episode Date: January 3, 2025In an episode first reported in 2017, we bring you what may be, maybe the greatest gift one person could give to another. You never know what might ha...
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Probing Where the Sun Does Shine: A Holiday Special
Episode Date: December 24, 2024This holiday season, in a special holiday drop, we want to take you on a trip around the heavens.First, Latif, with the help of Nour Raouafi, of NASA,...
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Curiosity Killed the Adage
Episode Date: December 20, 2024The early bird gets the worm. What goes around, comes around. It’s always darkest just before dawn. We carry these little nuggets of wisdom—these adag...
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Dark Side of the Earth
Episode Date: December 13, 2024Back in 2012, when we were putting together our live show In the Dark, Jad and Robert called up Dave Wolf to ask him if he had any stories about darkn...
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How Stockholm Stuck
Episode Date: December 6, 2024In August of 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson walked into the lobby of a bank in central Stockholm. He fired his submachine gun at the ceiling and yelled “The pa...
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Less Than Kilogram
Episode Date: November 29, 2024In today’s story, which originally aired in 2014, we meet a very special cylinder. It's the gold standard (or, in this case, the platinum-iridium stan...
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Science Vs: The Funniest Joke in the World
Episode Date: November 22, 2024When he rounded them up, he had a 100.A few months ago, Wendy Zuckerman invited our own Latif Nasser to come on her show, and, of course, he jumped at...
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The Ecstasy of an Open Brain
Episode Date: November 8, 2024As we grow up, there are little windows of time when we can learn very, very fast, and very, very deeply. Scientists call these moments, critical peri...