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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They Know Who You Are
50 min
377
Are We Over the Moon?
50 min
378
Skeptic Check: After the Hereafter
50 min
379
Raising the Minimum Age
We all try to fight it: the inexorable march of time. The fountain of youth doesn’t exist, and all those wrinkle creams can’t help. But modern science is giving us new weapons in the fight against aging. So how far are we willing to...
50 min
380
Microbes: Resistance is Futile
50 min
381
Science Fiction True
50 min
382
Skeptic Check: The Me in Measles
50 min
383
Surviving the Anthropocene
50 min
384
How to Talk to Aliens
50 min
385
Shocking Ideas
50 min
386
Living Computers
50 min
387
Moving Right Along
50 min
388
Surfeit of the Vitalest
50 min
389
Tale of the Distribution
50 min
390
Who's Controlling Whom?
50 min
391
Land on the Run
50 min
392
Replace What Ails You
50 min
393
Apt to Adapt
50 min
394
A Stellar Job
50 min
395
You Think; You're So Smart
50 min
396
Look Who's Not Talking
50 min
397
Happily Confused
50 min
398
Climate Conversation
50 min
399
Skeptic Check: Paleo Diet
50 min
400
Skeptic Check: Check the Skeptics
50 min