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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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A Flock of Two
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Published: May 30, 2025 14:00
Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffers from a problem that not only puts his life at riskāit jeopardizes the safety of everybody around him.ā¦
The Echo in the Machine
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Published: May 23, 2025 14:00
Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. Itās frictionless. And yet, if it werenāt for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still beā¦
How to Cure What Ails You
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Published: May 16, 2025 14:00
Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to behavior and feelings. Right? Well, maybe not, or maybe not just yet. It seems the workings of our brains areā¦
The First Known Earthly Voice
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Published: May 9, 2025 14:00
What happens when a voice emerges? What happens when one is lost? Is something gained? A couple months ago, Lulu guest edited an issue of the nature magazine Orion. She called the issue āQueer Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity,ā and it was aā¦
Terrestrials: The Snow Beast
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Published: May 2, 2025 14:00
Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole, spending her afternoons scavenging for ancient treasures on the ground. One day, she foundā¦
The Age of Aquaticus
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Published: April 25, 2025 14:00
For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73ā/163ā. At that temperature, everything boiled to death. But scientists Tom Brock and Hudson Freeze werenāt convinced. What began as their simple quest to trawl for life in some of the hottestā¦
Ghosts in the Green Machine
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Published: April 18, 2025 14:00
In honor of our Earth, on her day, we have two stories about the overlooked, ignored, and neglected parts of nature. In the first half, we learn about an epic battle that is raging across the globe every day, every moment. It's happening in the ocean, andā¦
Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow
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Published: April 11, 2025 14:00
A couple years ago, an entomologist named Martha Weiss got a letter from a little boy in Japan saying he wanted to replicate a famous study of hers. We covered that original study on Radiolab more than a decade ago in an episode called Goo and You ā checkā¦
Killer Empathy
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Published: April 4, 2025 14:00
In an episode first aired in 2012, Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor at the University of Wyoming, who spent a part of his career studying a particularly ferocious set of insects: Gryllacrididae. Or, as Jeff describes them, "cricketsā¦
Malthusian Swerve
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Published: March 28, 2025 14:00
Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we?In this episode, we partnered with the team at Planet Money to take stock of the essential raw materials that enable us to live as we do here on Earthāeverything from sand to copper to oilāā¦
Everybody's Got One
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Published: March 21, 2025 14:00
We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. this story isnāt the nursery rhyme we think it is. In a way, itās a struggle, almost like a tiny war. And right on the frontā¦