Are We Alone? - Science Radio for Thinking Species

A massive black hole lies at the center of our galaxy, a monster hunkered down in the Milky Way’s innermost sanctum. Here, the bizarre ...

ENCORE While the Kepler spacecraft hunts for habitable planets beyond the solar system, we’ve let one of our own planets slip away! Find ...

Encore Presentation Can animals think? Merely asking the question was once thought ridiculous. But studies that range from chimps to birds ...

As the anti-vax campaign rages, parents are just saying “no” to vaccines. But now the incidence of childhood diseases such as whooping ...

Bond it to oxygen and it’s the scourge of climate change. But earthly life wouldn’t be possible without carbon, and maybe that’s true ...

Hello! Is anyone out there? As the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence marks its 50th anniversary, there’s been no ...

ENCORE Hollywood has a few ideas of how the world will end: killer asteroids … lethal pandemics … deadly ice-ages. These themes have ...

The march of computer technology continues. But as silicon chips and search engines become faster and more productive – can the same be ...

Popping a pill may help when you’re sick… but maybe not for the reasons you think. Sugar pills – placebos – cure illness ...

It’s always an adventure to go digging in Seth’s storage locker – who knows what we’ll find … In this imposing pile of ...

>p>We think of major geologic events as taking place a long time ago – but the Earth is just as active as it ever was. We’re a ...

There’s no escape from the chattering classes – they talk, squawk, squeal and sing all around us. Every animal communicates in some ...

From Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the view of the cosmos is spectacular. Giant black holes, distant galaxies, and extrasolar planets have all been ...