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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Skeptic Check: After the Hereafter
50 min
402
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
403
Microbes: Resistance is Futile
50 min
404
Science Fiction True
50 min
405
Skeptic Check: The Me in Measles
50 min
406
Surviving the Anthropocene
50 min
407
How to Talk to Aliens
50 min
408
Shocking Ideas
50 min
409
Living Computers
50 min
410
Moving Right Along
50 min
411
Surfeit of the Vitalest
50 min
412
Tale of the Distribution
50 min
413
Who's Controlling Whom?
50 min
414
Land on the Run
50 min
415
Replace What Ails You
50 min
416
Apt to Adapt
50 min
417
A Stellar Job
50 min
418
You Think; You're So Smart
50 min
419
Look Who's Not Talking
50 min
420
Happily Confused
50 min
421
Climate Conversation
50 min
422
Skeptic Check: Paleo Diet
50 min
423
Skeptic Check: Check the Skeptics
50 min
424
Smiley Virus
50 min
425
Space for Everyone
50 min