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
101
Testing Your Metal (rebroadcast)
50 min
102
Melting Down (rebroadcast)
50 min
103
Coming to Our Animal Senses (rebroadcast)
50 min
104
Webb Feat (rebroadcast)
50 min
105
Skeptic Check: 5G (rebroadcast)
50 min
106
Tomb with a View
50 min
107
Keeping Humans in the Loop (rebroadcast)
50 min
108
Is Life Inevitable [rebroadcast]
50 min
109
Vaccine Inequity
54 min
110
Your Inner Tree (rebroadcast)
50 min
111
Fuhgeddaboudit (rebroadcast)
50 min
112
Lady Parts
58 min
113
Skeptic Check: AI Comes Alive
52 min
114
The T-Rex Files
52 min
115
Animals Being Jerks (rebroadcast)
50 min
116
Phreaky Physics (rebroadcast)
50 min
117
Skeptic Check: Data Bias (rebroadcast)
50 min
118
De-Permafrosting
50 min
119
Like Lightning
50 min
120
Coming to Our Animal Senses
50 min
121
Skeptic Check: Heal Thyself (rebroadcast)
50 min
122
Platypus Crazy (rebroadcast)
50 min
123
Rip Van Winkle Worm (rebroadcast)
50 min
124
Webb Feat
50 min
125
Building a Space Colony
50 min