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  1. Did we find signs of life on Mars?

    NASA found a Martian rock that might have traces of ancient life. It's perhaps the most tantalizing revelation in the century-long search for Martian life. (Updated from 2022) Guests: Katie Stack Morgan (https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/

  2. The metabolism myth

    Recent research — and one surprising season of The Biggest Loser — has scientists wondering whether some of the most basic things they know about metabolism are wrong. Guest: Julia Belluz, author of Food Intelligence (https://www.penguinran

  3. The Vagina Voyages

    Join our friends at The Longest Shortest Time for a deep dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas. We’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wingspans, vagina lollipops, wandering wombs, and why we still know so little about th

  4. A rabbi and the Lorax walk into a bar...

    How the bedtime stories we grew up with inspire the stories we tell now. For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bMXuLuyy3zTLCnblKVWUBq4Gd84PY8sG)⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠ (http://vox.com/unxt

  5. Is a little alcohol bad for you?

    We spoke to two researchers who disagree about the answer to this question. But they do agree about why it's so hard to answer to begin with. Guests: Dylan Scott, senior correspondent at Vox (https://www.vox.com/authors/dylan-scott); Kennet

  6. Ice Sheet Time Machine

    The US military carved a tiny city into the Greenland ice sheet. What they found, and lost, and found again, and what it tells us about climate change. Guests: Paul Bierman, geoscientist at the University of Vermont (https://www.uvm.edu/~pb

  7. Animals in the year 20202025

    What do scientists think animals might be like millions of years from now? (First published in 2021) Guests: Benji Jones (https://www.vox.com/authors/benji-jones), senior correspondent at Vox; David Willard (https://www.fieldmuseum.org/abou

  8. Nightmare at the end of the universe

    Dark energy is the strange stuff that makes up the vast majority of the universe and will ultimately lead to the end of everything. Unless it doesn't exist at all. Guests: Adam Riess (https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/adam-riess/)

  9. Life in plastic — not fantastic?

    Much of our modern world is made of plastic, but as more signs point to its dangers to human health, what can we even do about it? Guest: Annie Lowrey, Atlantic writer and author of I fought plastic. Plastic won (https://www.theatlantic.com

  10. When waves go rogue

    Towering walls of water sometimes appear in the ocean without warning or apparent cause. What drives their terrifying power? (First published in 2023) Guest: Ton van der Bremer (https://www.tudelft.nl/en/staff/t.s.vandenbremer/), associate

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