Science Magazine Podcast

BRCA1 turns 20; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Human odor discrimination; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

What Google's Flu Trends can teach us about the pitfalls of big data; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Celebrating crystallography's centennial; how climate pushes malaria uphill; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Treatment trials for Down Syndrome; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Eavesdropping on ecosystems; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Termite-inspired builder robots; why some mammalian cells have so many copies of their chromosomes.

Tackling the role of early fetal brain development in autism; daily news stories with David Grimm.

Should we worry more about quantum decryption in the future or the past, how salt's role as a micronutrient may effect the global carbon cycle, and a daily news roundup.

The genome from a cancerous cell line that's been living for millenia, Opportinty's first 10 years on Mars, and a daily news roundup.

Hunter-gatherer gut microbes, fast moving mountains, and a daily news roundup.

Ocean-going vesicles; stories from our daily news site.

Britain's prehistoric stone monuments; stories from our daily news site.

Notable highlights from the year in science; Science's breakthrough of the year and runners up.

Fear-enhanced odor detection with John McGann; the latest from Curiosity’s hunt for traces of ancient life on Mars with Richard Kerr; and more.

Discussing the origin of transcriptional noise with Alvaro Sanchez; examining results from a drilling expedition at the Tohoku-oki fault; and looking at the potential benefits of snake venom with Kai Kupferschmidt.

Talking kids' science books with Maria Sosa; predicting happiness in marriage with James McNulty; investigating questionable scholarly publishing practices in China with Mara Hvistendahl.

The minimum requirements for a Y chromosome with Monika Ward; Eliot Marshall checks in on U.S.'s missile interception program 30 years later; Sylvia Zhu breaks down observations from the brightest gamma-ray burst.

The origin of dog domestication in Europe with Robert Wayne; Richard Lenski tracks the adaptation of bacteria over 50,000 generations; Robert Services describes the prospects of a new contender in solar technology.