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
501
Whodunit, Who'll Do It?
50 min
502
Say La Vie
50 min
503
Skeptic Check: Science Blunders
50 min
504
Whither the Weather?
50 min
505
Ultimate Hook Up
50 min
506
Skeptic Check: They're Baack!
50 min
507
Remembers Only
50 min
508
Before the Big Bang
50 min
509
Doomsday Live, Part 2
50 min
510
Doomsday Live, Part I
55 min
511
No Expiration Date
50 min
512
Going Global
50 min
513
Space Archaeology
50 min
514
As the Worlds Turn
50 min
515
[Rectangular Container] Thinking
50 min
516
Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness
50 min
517
Big Data
50 min
518
Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex
50 min
519
Oh, Rats!
50 min
520
The Invisible In-Between
50 min
521
Skeptic Check: Monsters, Magic, and Music
50 min
522
A.I. Caramba!
50 min
523
A Martian Curiosity
50 min
524
Fuel's Paradise
50 min
525
Olympics for the Rest of Us
50 min