Science Quickly

Move Over Fireworks—Drone Shows Are Taking to the Skies

Talking to the Host of Drilled about the Legal Battles around Standing Rock

How to Fight Bird Flu If It Becomes the Next Human Pandemic (Part 3)

Bird Flu’s Jump to Cattle Took Dairy Farmers by Surprise (Part 2)

How Bird Flu Went from an Isolated Avian Illness to a Human Pandemic Threat (Part 1)

What No One Tells You about Testosterone Replacement Therapy

Why Your Gut Loves a Good Workout

CDC Vaccine Panel Fired by RFK, Jr., Oceans Grow More Acidic, and Pangolins Threatened by Hunting

These Adorable Hamster Dads Take Fatherhood Seriously

What ‘Immortal’ Jellyfish and Famously Old Tortoises Tell Us about Aging

Cosmic Coin Toss, Record Heat in the North Atlantic and Living Worm Towers

Is the National Weather Service Ready for an Extreme Summer?

Megalodon Diets, Teeth Sensitivity and a Bunch of Vaccine News

Are You Flourishing? This Global Study Has Surprising Takeaways

Diagnosing Male Infertility with a Mechanical Engineering Twist

Could We Speak to Dolphins? A Promising LLM Makes That a Possibility

This episode of Science Quickly explores the possibility of communicating with dolphins using a new AI project called DolphinGemma, a large language model for dolphin vocalizations. The podcast features insights from marine biologist Thea Taylor, zoologist Arik Kirshenbaum, Google's Thad Starner, and Wild Dolphin Proje...

Do Mitochondria Talk to Each Other? A New Look at the Cell’s Powerhouse

In this episode of Science Quickly, Rachel Feltman interviews Martin Picard, a mitochondrial psychobiologist from Columbia University, about the evolving understanding of mitochondria. Picard discusses how the traditional "powerhouse of the cell" analogy is outdated, explaining that mitochondria are dynamic organelles ...

How to Make Gold, Flamingo Food Tornado, and Kosmos-482 Lands

This Scientific American Science Quickly podcast episode, hosted by Allison Parshall, provides a brief roundup of recent science news. The episode covers the crash landing of the Soviet-era Kosmos-482 probe, the accidental creation of gold at the Large Hadron Collider, a significant drop in overdose deaths in the US b...

Could Freezing Arctic Sea Ice Combat Climate Change?

How a West Texas Outbreak Threatens Measles Elimination Status