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.

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Technology
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Gene Hack, Man
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452
Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real
50 min
453
Can We Talk?
50 min
454
Animal Instinct
50 min
455
Group Think
50 min
456
Some Like It Cold
We all may prefer the goldilocks zone – not too hot, not too cold. But most of the universe is bitterly cold. We can learn a lot about it if we’re willing to brave a temperature drop.A chilly Arctic island is the closest thing to...
50 min
457
Math's Days Are Numbered
50 min
458
Skeptic Check: Science Blunders
50 min
459
The Heat is On
50 min
460
Life Back Then
50 min
461
Shutting Down Science
50 min
462
Skeptic Check: War of the Worlds
50 min
463
Emergence
50 min
464
You Say You Want an Evolution?
50 min
465
Skeptic Check: Follywood Science
50 min
466
Catch a Wave
50 min
467
Rife with Life
50 min
468
Getting a Spacelift
50 min
469
Material Whirl
50 min
470
Exoplanets
50 min
471
Cosmos: It's Big, It's Weird
50 min
472
Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate
50 min
473
Stomach This
50 min
474
Skeptic Check: Forget with the Program
50 min
475
Seth's Wine Cellar
50 min