Big Picture Science

The surprising connections in science and technology that give you the Big Picture. Astronomer Seth Shostak and science journalist Molly Bentley are joined each week by leading researchers, techies, and journalists to provide a smart and humorous take on science. Our regular "Skeptic Check" episodes cast a critical eye on pseudoscience.

Science
Technology
1
Skeptic Check: Asteroid Mining
50 min
2
Disappearing Data
59 min
3
Amazing Arctic
52 min
4
Preventable
63 min
5
Your Mind on Movies
50 min
6
The Latest Buzz
50 min
7
Skeptic Check: Into the DeepSeek
55 min
8
Chasing an Asteroid
52 min
9
Coming to Our Animal Senses
50 min
10
Skeptic Check: Drone Panic Revisited
8 min
11
Skeptic Check: Drone Panic
54 min
12
The Best Things in Life are Tree(s)
52 min
13
The Ocean's Genome
50 min
14
Night Flight
51 min
15
Skeptic Check: Naomi Klein
52 min
16
Extraordinary Ordinary Objects*
50 min
17
Spotlight on SETI ep 4: Chenoa Tremblay
22 min
18
2024: Our Space Odyssey
50 min
19
A Real Gas
50 min
20
Going Multicellular
50 min
21
Skeptic Check: Near Death Experiences
50 min
22
Spotlight on SETI ep 3: Pascal Lee
37 min
23
Beyond the Periodic Table
50 min
24
Amazing Amazonia
69 min
25
Fuhgeddaboudit**
50 min