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Unexplainable
Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know…and then keeps on going. The Unexplainable team — Noam Hassenfeld, Julia Longoria, Byrd Pinkerton, and Meradith Hoddinott — tackles scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and everything we learn diving into the unknown. New episodes Mondays and Wednesdays. From Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Expecting: Weed and pregnancy
Episode Date: May 24, 2023Many states have extremely punitive policies around cannabis and pregnancy. But researchers don't actually have great data on cannabis's harms. For mo...
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Expecting: Baby brain
Episode Date: May 17, 2023Caring for a child seems to change parents’ brains. But what does that actually mean for how parents think and experience the world? For more, go to h...
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Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs
Episode Date: May 10, 2023Fetuses leave cells behind in their parents' bodies, where they braid themselves into tissues, and remain, for years. What are they doing in there? Fo...
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The tornado problem
Episode Date: May 3, 20232023 has been a record-setting year for tornadoes, and these storms came with barely any warning. So to better understand tornadoes, scientists might...
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How to resurrect a mammoth
Episode Date: April 26, 2023Scientists are hard at work trying to bring back woolly mammoths (and dodos). But should they? And what would they actually be bringing back? For more...
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Live show, dead dinosaurs
Episode Date: April 19, 2023We did a live show! We talked about how one of our favorite episodes came together and how we went about creating (somewhat) accurate dinosaur sounds....
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Talking trees
Episode Date: April 12, 2023Studies suggesting trees communicate through an elaborate underground fungal network have captured imaginations. It’s a beautiful idea, but the fantas...
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Your questions, unexplained
Episode Date: April 5, 2023This week, we tackle three listener questions — on sleepwalking, deja vu, and Earth’s magnetic field. Next time, we could be (not) answering yours. Em...
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What's so funny?
Episode Date: March 22, 2023Scientists are digging into what makes something funny. We compare their notes with comedians — including Atsuko Okatsuka, Josh Johnson, Dulcé Sloan,...
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Origins: The meaning of “life”
Episode Date: March 15, 2023For every definition of life, there’s a creature that sends us right back to the drawing board. This is the third episode in our three-part series, Or...
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Origins: The first living thing
Episode Date: March 8, 2023How did life on Earth start? To help answer that, researchers are trying to create some life for themselves. This is the second episode in our three-p...
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Origins: How did Earth get its water?
Episode Date: March 1, 2023Life as we know it needs water, but scientists can’t figure out where Earth’s water came from. Answering that question is just one piece of an even bi...
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What is love?
Episode Date: February 15, 2023Can science help us predict whether a relationship will succeed? Or is it all just chaos? This episode originally ran on February 9, 2022. For more, g...
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Why we hiccup
Episode Date: February 8, 2023Listeners told us that eating baby carrots or telling lies can bring on the hiccups. Burping or kissing can make them stop. Um, what? For more, go to...
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We booped an asteroid
Episode Date: February 1, 2023Last fall, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid to test a way to avert a disaster on Earth. So are we safe now? For more, go to http://vox.com/...
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Your creepy, crawly roommates
Episode Date: January 25, 2023Our houses are homes to hidden worlds of bugs. And the more ecologists explore those worlds, the more they realize that some of our tiny roommates act...
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Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
Episode Date: January 18, 2023In the early 1900s, Henrietta Leavitt made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy: a yardstick to measure distances to fara...
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Plants with eyes?
Episode Date: January 11, 2023In the temperate rainforests of Chile, there is a vine that can shapeshift to copy the look of other plants. But how? Can it... see them? Or is someth...
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Your gut's feelings
Episode Date: December 21, 2022How we feel emotionally may be influenced by unseen troves of microbial life that live inside us. Is it possible to harness this gut power? For more,...