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
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The Crater Good
50 min
377
100% Invisible
50 min
378
Eve of Disruption
50 min
379
Spacecraft Elegy
50 min
380
Skeptic Check: Glutenous Maximus
50 min
381
Winging It
50 min
382
Cosmic Conundra
50 min
383
Skeptic Check: Not So Sweet
50 min
384
Thinking About Thinking
50 min
385
Going All to Species
50 min
386
Skeptic Check: Amelia Earhart
50 min
387
No Face to Hide
50 min
388
The Light Stuff
50 min
389
The Fix is In
50 min
390
Skeptic Check: Fear Itself
50 min
391
What Lies Beneath
50 min
392
And To Space We Return
50 min
393
Hidden History
50 min
394
Moral's Law
50 min
395
Skeptic Check: Science and the Election
50 min
396
Skeptic Check: Skeptic Seth
50 min
397
The Evolution of Evolution
50 min
398
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
399
They Know Who You Are
50 min
400
Are We Over the Moon?
50 min