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
Amazing Amazonia
69 min
2
Fuhgeddaboudit**
50 min
3
How Hot is Too Hot?*
51 min
4
Platypus Crazy*
50 min
5
Spotlight on SETI ep 2: Nathalie Cabrol
38 min
6
Skeptic Check: String Theory
50 min
7
We'll Always Have Parasites
50 min
8
Measure For Measure
50 min
9
Skeptic Check: Cell Phone Bans
51 min
10
Cold Comfort
50 min
11
Introducing Spotlight on SETI!
46 min
12
Shipwrecks
51 min
13
Calling All Aliens*
50 min
14
Life in the Solar System
50 min
15
Catching Fire
50 min
16
Not Just a Phage
50 min
17
Skeptic Check: Is Social Media Harming Kids?
62 min
18
Animal Alphabets
50 min
19
Allergy Reason*
50 min
20
CRISPR Mosquitoes*
50 min
21
Don't Lighten Up
50 min
22
Aliens Now
50 min
23
Skeptic Check: The Body Electric*
50 min
24
Flower Power*
50 min
25
Animals Being Jerks*
50 min