Podcasts

Machine-learning algorithms allow composers to create all-new instruments.

A quick nap can boost your memory, your mood and even your creativity

Our space and physics editors go head-to-head over a classic mind-bending question.

Scientists have long wondered how baleen whales make their songs, and a new study has finally uncovered the anatomical workings behind their melodies.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, long dismissed by doctors, causes immune system dysfunction and other problems. But treatments are lacking.

Epigenetics research reveals how famines can cause health problems later in life—and how those changes might be passed down to future generations.

On the African savanna, a single invasive ant species has upset the delicate balance between predator and prey.

Nose-plus-throat swabbing for COVID could increase test accuracy—but could create problems, too

A newly examined munch mark on a tibia has become a real Pleistocene whodunit.

A recent study on risk-taking and bisexuality made assumptions that some experts don’t agree with.

A grassroots online movement has helped shift the way scientists think about asexuality. But much is still unknown.

Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves.