Podcasts

Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.

Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in doing so, grow and learn from it.

Amid Earth’s fourth global coral bleaching event, a leading expert says tackling climate change is the key to fighting back.

Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.

After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots.

The incentives in science don’t always encourage openness—but being wrong might just be the key to getting it right.

Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.

Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans.

Volcano detectives use artificial intelligence to sleuth out ancient secrets in Alaska. 

The tale of how the "backfire effect" ultimately, itself, backfired, and what scientists can learn from being wrong

As hard as it is to study these denizens of the deep, researchers have found some intriguing evidence to support the idea that “sperm whale culture” exists.

The deadly virus was practically eliminated in the U.S., but now it’s infecting more people.