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
351
Science Fiction
50 min
352
Gene-y in a Bottle
50 min
353
The Crater Good
50 min
354
100% Invisible
50 min
355
Eve of Disruption
50 min
356
Spacecraft Elegy
50 min
357
Skeptic Check: Glutenous Maximus
50 min
358
Winging It
50 min
359
Cosmic Conundra
50 min
360
Skeptic Check: Not So Sweet
50 min
361
Thinking About Thinking
50 min
362
Going All to Species
50 min
363
Skeptic Check: Amelia Earhart
50 min
364
No Face to Hide
50 min
365
The Light Stuff
50 min
366
The Fix is In
50 min
367
Skeptic Check: Fear Itself
50 min
368
What Lies Beneath
50 min
369
And To Space We Return
50 min
370
Hidden History
50 min
371
Moral's Law
50 min
372
Skeptic Check: Science and the Election
50 min
373
Skeptic Check: Skeptic Seth
50 min
374
The Evolution of Evolution
50 min
375
Asteroids!
Everyone knows that a big rock did in the dinosaurs, but smaller asteroids are millions of times more common and can also make a violent impact.   Yet unlike the bigger asteroids, we’re not tracking them.  Find out what we’d need to...
55 min