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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A.I. Caramba!
50 min
502
A Martian Curiosity
50 min
503
Fuel's Paradise
50 min
504
Olympics for the Rest of Us
50 min
505
Animal Instinct
50 min
506
Nano Nano
50 min
507
Seth's Storm Shelter
50 min
508
Skeptic Check: OMG, GMO?
50 min
509
Can We Talk?
50 min
510
Better Mousetrap
50 min
511
Mass Transits
50 min
512
To Earth and Back
50 min
513
That's So Random!
49 min
514
Early Adapters
50 min
515
Humans Need Not Apply
50 min
516
Second That Emotion
50 min
517
Found in Space
50 min
518
Seth's Cabinet of Wonders
50 min
519
Skeptic Check: Prog-Not-Stication
49 min
520
Skeptic Check: Saucer's Apprentice
48 min
521
Aware Am I?
48 min
522
Wired for Thought
50 min
523
Light, the Universe, and Everything
50 min
524
Skeptic Check: Superstition
49 min
525
Sensor Sensibility
Have you lost your senses? You’ll find them everywhere you look. Sensors respond to external stimuli – light, sound, temperature and much else – to help us make sense (ha!) of our universe. And more are on their way. “Ubiquitous sensing”...
50 min