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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Animal Instinct
50 min
527
Nano Nano
50 min
528
Seth's Storm Shelter
50 min
529
Skeptic Check: OMG, GMO?
50 min
530
Can We Talk?
50 min
531
Better Mousetrap
50 min
532
Mass Transits
50 min
533
To Earth and Back
50 min
534
That's So Random!
49 min
535
Early Adapters
50 min
536
Humans Need Not Apply
50 min
537
Second That Emotion
50 min
538
Found in Space
50 min
539
Seth's Cabinet of Wonders
50 min
540
Skeptic Check: Prog-Not-Stication
49 min
541
Skeptic Check: Saucer's Apprentice
48 min
542
Aware Am I?
48 min
543
Wired for Thought
50 min
544
Light, the Universe, and Everything
50 min
545
Skeptic Check: Superstition
49 min
546
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
547
Going Viral
48 min
548
Science's Alliances
50 min
549
Skeptic Check: Dubiology
49 min
550
We've Got You Made
49 min