Scientific American Podcast

Scientific American daily podcast contributor Karen Hopkin talks about a few recent studies related to the science of the Christmas season.

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ScientificAmerican.com's David Biello is in Copenhagen at the climate conference, and he'll tell us what's going on there. And the Wildlife ...

Scientific American Magazine's editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina and editor Michael Moyer talk about the World Changing Ideas feature, ...

The Totally Bogus Quiz for this week.

On the eve of the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen and in the wake of the hacked climate researchers' emails, former ...

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, we review Darwin's influence on the the modern world, as ...

Tree ring expert Kevin Anchukaitis, of the tree ring lab at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University's Earth ...

Anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison talks about recent human evolution, especially of our ability to digest ...

Anthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London talks about Neanderthals. And Scientific American's Kate Wong, ...

In this episode Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the contents of the October issue of Scientific American, including articles ...

Jack Szostak, who just shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, talks about his latest research on the origin of life. And ...

Scientific American podcast correspondent Cynthia Graber talks about the M.I.T. Clean Energy Prize Competition. And we take part in the ...