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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We Heart Robots
50 min
452
Before the Big Bang
50 min
453
Gene Hack, Man
50 min
454
Skeptic Check: Zombies Aren't Real
50 min
455
Can We Talk?
50 min
456
Animal Instinct
50 min
457
Group Think
50 min
458
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
459
Math's Days Are Numbered
50 min
460
Skeptic Check: Science Blunders
50 min
461
The Heat is On
50 min
462
Life Back Then
50 min
463
Shutting Down Science
50 min
464
Skeptic Check: War of the Worlds
50 min
465
Emergence
50 min
466
You Say You Want an Evolution?
50 min
467
Skeptic Check: Follywood Science
50 min
468
Catch a Wave
50 min
469
Rife with Life
50 min
470
Getting a Spacelift
50 min
471
Material Whirl
50 min
472
Exoplanets
50 min
473
Cosmos: It's Big, It's Weird
50 min
474
Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate
50 min
475
Stomach This
50 min