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2026-07-23 · Future-gazing
by Steve Strauss, University Distinguished Professor of Forest Biotechnology, Oregon State University
Could a new way of reading DNA bring a lost forest giant back to the woods?
0:00 / 9:15 · Narrator Charon
2026-07-19 · Behind the news
by Christopher A. Cooper, Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs, Western Carolina University
0:00 / 15:57 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-07-19 · For the curious
by Matthew Pittman, Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Tennessee
Why does a pushy advertisement start to feel like a relief after a few minutes of scrolling?
0:00 / 8:45 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-07-17 · Future-gazing
by Aldo Romero, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University
How do scientists build a computer out of particles that can be in two places at once?
0:00 / 10:42 · Narrator Algieba
2026-07-15 · Future-gazing
by Clive Neal, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
How do you pick the right piece of ground for a permanent home on the Moon?
0:00 / 5:57 · Narrator Charon
2026-07-13 · Smart escape
by Tara Hohoff, Associate Mammalogist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
How do you help a bat find its way back outside when it turns up in your home?
0:00 / 6:25 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-07-12 · Behind the news
by Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
0:00 / 18:53 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-07-11 · For the curious
by Thomas Adam, Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas
How did a game meant to exhaust rowdy schoolboys turn into the world’s most popular sport?
0:00 / 8:09 · Narrator Charon
2026-07-08 · For the curious
by Khachatur Manukyan, Associate Research Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
Why did Benjamin Franklin turn to chemistry and botany to make paper money feel real?
0:00 / 8:41 · Narrator Algieba
2026-07-05 · Behind the news
by Sylvain Barbot, Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
0:00 / 15:37 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-07-05 · Behind the news
by Patty Heyda, Professor of Urban Design and Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis
If a map is a tool for building a world, who decides what stays off the page?
0:00 / 7:38 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-07-02 · Behind the news
by Sandra Matz, Professor of Business, Columbia University
If privacy is a right, why has it become so difficult for most people to protect?
0:00 / 7:16 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-28 · Smart escape
by Carla Vecchiola, Lecturer in History, University of Michigan-Dearborn
If you keep returning to a city for its music, what do you actually owe the locals?
0:00 / 10:38 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-06-26 · Behind the news
by Sanaa El-Sayed, PhD student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan
What do a few fossil fish in the desert say about the birth of the modern ocean?
0:00 / 7:48 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-06-24 · For the curious
by Paul Wachtel, Emeritus Professor of Economics, New York University
0:00 / 19:31 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-23 · Future-gazing
by Christopher Karwin, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
Could a faint glow at the center of the Milky Way be the fingerprint of dark matter?
0:00 / 8:08 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-22 · Future-gazing
by Achim Zeileis, Professor of Statistics, University of Innsbruck
0:00 / 13:04 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-21 · For the curious
by Steve S. Medeiros, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Connecticut
What happens when a soldier and an Iraqi interpreter discover they mourn in the same way?
0:00 / 7:55 · Narrator Charon
2026-06-18 · For the curious
by Matthew Alemu, Special Advisor, Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan; Northeastern University
If a father is gone, does the specific shape of his absence change the person left behind?
0:00 / 8:56 · Narrator Algieba
2026-06-17 · Behind the news
by Julia Gaffield, Professor of History, William & Mary
0:00 / 19:05 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-11 · For the curious
by Melissa Maffeo, Teaching Professor of Psychology, Wake Forest University
What makes a brain turn a strange sensation into a ghost sighting?
0:00 / 9:32 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-05 · Behind the news
by Carrie McDonough, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
If forever chemicals transform inside us, how can we ever trace their true origins?
0:00 / 9:17 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-03 · Behind the news
by Christopher Lieu, Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz
When a cancer is considered "undruggable," what finally changes the narrative?
0:00 / 5:32 · Narrator Charon
2026-06-01 · For the curious
by Douglas Goodwin, Lecturer in Design and Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of the Arts
What truly happens to a wild color when it reaches your screen?
0:00 / 8:08 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-05-29 · Future-gazing
by Gideon Yoffe, Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
If life organizes chemistry in unique ways, how do we read those patterns from distant moons?
0:00 / 8:13 · Narrator Rasalgethi
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