Unexplainable

Vox

Podcast

Episodes

Latest Episodes

Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain

11/20/2024 • 22 min

It’s not great to be a lab rat. And it turns out, lab rats might not be that great for science either. Could the future be little lab-grown brain clumps? Guests: Rachel Nuwer, science journalist; Lisa Genzel, professor of neuroscience at Radboud University This episode has been updated. An earlier version didn’t differentiate between two stages of drug developme… Play episode

Why are there lefties and righties?
Placebos work. Why?
Why is horror so fun?
Are psychedelics breaking science?
Your gut’s feelings
Is insurance doomed?
My animal heart
How hot could the world get?
Should you be eating poison oak?
Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history
You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?
Viral dark matter
The good virus
Ecstasy therapy
What did dinosaurs sound like?
Do we live inside an enormous black hole?
Is good posture actually good?
Why do we yawn?
Embracing economic chaos
We still don’t really know how inflation works
Can you put a price on nature?
The deepest spot in the ocean
What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
Did trees kill the world?
Can we stop aging?
Who's the daddy? There isn't one.
Itch hunt
How did Earth get its water?
Is Earth alive?
The alpha myth
The eclipse chasers
The Yips
The bleeding edge, part two
The bleeding edge
Aliens from Earth?
How scientists are searching for aliens
A universal virus-killer?
Why do we cry?
Should you quit Diet Coke?
The case for cursing
The math problem that could break the internet
Garbage patch kids
A stethoscope for the rainforest
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Something weird near the beginning of time
The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?
Weaponizing uncertainty
Can we live in space?
The ice cream effect

Unexplainable RSS Feed

Share: Twitter • Facebook • Embed

Copy embed code: