Science Magazine Podcast

Investigating a macroscopic analog of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; searching for cosmic rays in supernova remnants; what light-sensing proteins are doing outside the eye; and more.

Liyuan Liang answers the 40-year-old question of how methylmercury accumulates in the environment; Andrew Balmford describes the accidental poisoning and subsequent resuscitation of vulture populations in India; Christina Larson discusses the urgency of climate change research in China; and more.

A previously overlooked carbon sink fills some gaps in the carbon cycle; how the schooling of fish may create a collective sensory array; the winners of the 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge; and more.

Listen to stories on uncertainty in proton sizing, naming all the species on the planet, crusading for science, and more.

Listen to stories on innovative imaging, anonymous genomes, the promise and perils of oxytocin, and more.

Listen to stories on China's one-child policy, anti-inflammatory therapy for chronic disease, selling expertise to investors and more.

Listen to stories on the end of history illusion, negative absolute temperatures, the death of a star, and more.

The Breakthrough of the Year, some of the runners-up, the year in news, and the top 10 ScienceNOW stories of 2012.

Spatial learning with help from pheromones, counting insects in a forest, making smarter rocks, and more...

Sleeping sickness, prize-winning children’s books, the GRAIL project, and more.

Researchers crack the code of crocodile scales; universities in Myanmar get a boost; MESSENGER mission answers decades-old question about water on Mercury; and more.

A new spin on seismic surveying to image the deep Earth; the origins of the world’s most important domesticated animal; a review of 50 years of protein folding; and more.

The challenges of cartilage regeneration; investigating the loss of North American mussel diversity; putting a date on early humans’ hunting technology; and more.

A chemical symbiosis between corals and neighboring fishes; climate change and the fall of the ancient Maya; improvements and challenges in weather forecasting; and more.

What can a malaria treatment program teach us about how to address illness in Africa? Meghna Sachdev chats with Barry R. Bloom, co-author of a Policy Forum called “From Financing to Fevers: Lessons of an Antimalarial Subsidy Program.”