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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Fuel's Paradise
50 min
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Olympics for the Rest of Us
50 min
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Animal Instinct
50 min
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Nano Nano
50 min
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Seth's Storm Shelter
50 min
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Skeptic Check: OMG, GMO?
50 min
507
Can We Talk?
50 min
508
Better Mousetrap
50 min
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Mass Transits
50 min
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To Earth and Back
50 min
511
That's So Random!
49 min
512
Early Adapters
50 min
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Humans Need Not Apply
50 min
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Second That Emotion
50 min
515
Found in Space
50 min
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Seth's Cabinet of Wonders
50 min
517
Skeptic Check: Prog-Not-Stication
49 min
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Skeptic Check: Saucer's Apprentice
48 min
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Aware Am I?
48 min
520
Wired for Thought
50 min
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Light, the Universe, and Everything
50 min
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Skeptic Check: Superstition
49 min
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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”...
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Going Viral
48 min
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Science's Alliances
50 min