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Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.
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Forests on Forests
Published: April 24, 2026 14:00
For much of history, tree canopies were pretty much completely ignored by science. It was as if researchers said collectively, "It's just going to be empty up there, and we've got our hands full studying the trees down here! So why bother?" But then around…
The Resistance of a Cow
https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-resistance-of-a-cow
Published: April 17, 2026 14:00
There’s something rotten in the cows of Denmark. And Minnesota. And Wisconsin. And Idaho. What could cause a previously thriving herd of majestic dairy cattle to stop drinking water and start drinking … urine? A Danish farmer calls a special investigator,…
The Builders
https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-builders
Published: April 10, 2026 14:00
In an episode first aired back in 2025 on our sister show, Terrestrials, we take you on a musical journey all about beavers. Few mammals have a bigger positive impact on the planet than the beaver. With its bright orange buck teeth, the creature is an…
Life in a Barrel
https://radiolab.org/podcast/life-in-a-barrel
Published: April 3, 2026 14:00
This week, in an episode we first aired in 2022, we flip the Disney story of life on its head thanks to a barrel of seawater, a 1970s era computer, and underwater geysers. It’s the chaos of life. Latif, Lulu, and our Senior Producer Matt Kielty were all…
Antibiotic Apocalypse
https://radiolab.org/podcast/antibiotic-apocalypse
Published: March 27, 2026 14:00
Doctor and special correspondent Avir Mitra takes Executive Editor Soren Wheeler, plus a live studio audience, on a journey from the operating room to inside the body to the farm to the sewers and back again—searching for answers to an alarming threat to…
Staph Retreat
https://radiolab.org/podcast/45573f6d87848f78d50c5efd
Published: March 20, 2026 14:00
A strange brew that's hard to resist, even for a modern day microbe. In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. The antibiotics we once wielded like miraculous flaming swords seem more like lukewarm butter knives. But in this…
Return of the Flesh-Eaters
https://radiolab.org/podcast/return-of-the-flesheaters
Published: March 13, 2026 14:00
If a species is horrible enough, do we have the right to kill it forever? Seventy years ago, a nightmare parasite feasted on the live flesh of warm-blooded creatures in North America: the screwworm. That is, until a young scientist named Edward F. Knipling…
Snail Sex Tape
https://radiolab.org/podcast/snail-sex-tape
Published: March 6, 2026 16:00
In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, is epic. There is persuasion and subterfuge, spaghetti penises and co-copulation. And this very surprising…
Black Box
https://radiolab.org/podcast/d8ce1611a9181dc253f262b0
Published: February 27, 2026 15:00
In this episode, first aired in 2014, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—spaces where we know what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but can’t see what happens in-between. From the darkest parts of metamorphosis to a sixty-year-old…
Gray's Donation
https://radiolab.org/podcast/5b8230b622213510e6b435fa
Published: February 20, 2026 15:00
Before he was even born, Sarah and Ross Gray knew that their son Thomas wouldn’t live long. But as they let go of him, they made a decision that reverberated through a world that they never bothered to think about. Years later, after a couple of awkward…