May 22nd, 2026
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This Week: Urban Animals, Human Birth, Happy Mice, Eye Plants, Bug Killing Medicine, Colossal Shells, and Much More!
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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
I was going to read a disclaimer for
the guest tonight,
but I don’t know about this,
so I’m going to make one up on
the spot right now.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the science.
Don’t you wish that it was an appliance?
No, you don’t.
You just like that it’s science.
Technology is the application of science,
and science is the act of questioning
everything in a very well-controlled manner.
I don’t know.
It’s a process.
It’s a method.
Science is not a collection of facts.
If you sit on it,
can you break it?
Maybe we’ll talk about that and more
tonight on This Week in Science.
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Blair’s Animal Corner
Urban animals are harder
They grew up on the mean streets, and it shows
Human birth isn’t so bad
Ugh is this for real? All animals have to deal with this??
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Happy Mice
Could we be using contact lenses to treat depression someday?
Plant In Your Eye
Why would you want to stick plant cells in your eye?
Medicine Kills Bugs
Did we expect that bacterial populations in indigenous populations would remain high with medical treatments?
Colossal Shells
Why would anyone make a chicken without an egg?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed CRISPR, Government-Sanctioned Mass Extinction, Bugs in Space, Shrinking Clownfish, Bees Sleep, Dolphins Talk, Blocking Cell Death, Toothy Origins, and Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS Massive Mastodon Hunts, Origami Belly Bots, Biodiversity Is Everything, Bad Panda Poop, The Cuckoo Mafia, Progress For Math, Simultaneous Hermaphrodites Take Turns, Bad Antibacterial Guts, Satisfied Lady Gorillas, Good For Overpasses!, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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May 14th, 2026
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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Interview w/Alaina Levine, Science Unicorns, Cancer Gone, Carnivorous Plants, Outdoor Cats, Carnivorous Rice, Gluca Gone, Insect Pain, Wings, Sleepy Time, and Much More!
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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
Disclaimer Disclaimer Disclaimer
Hantavirus has reared its head,
but do not fear its reported spread.
The Noro is another beast.
Not much to do.
Just wash your hands
and brush your teeth.
Will Legionnaires be next?
In this cruise ship hall of fame?
And truly, who is to blame?
Certainly not you
Who buys your berths
and then complain
about the heat
as you dine on crab
and sleep like sardines.
We’ll definitely have thoughts here on
This Week in Science.
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The Interview!
We’re starting the show off with an interview tonight.
Our guest, Alaina Levine is an international professional speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, STEM career coach and consultant, TEDx speaker, science journalist, and corporate comedian. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
Her newest book, the forthcoming Your Unicorn Career, named after her successful column in Science, empowers anyone to create a customized career that honors your authenticity and values; allows you to define impact and success in a meaningful and personal way; and use skills and solve problems that bring you joy. Her first book, Networking for Nerds (Wiley, 2015), beat out Einstein (really!) for the honor of being named a Top 5 Book of 2015 by Physics Today.
As President of Quantum Success Solutions, LLC, Alaina is a prolific speaker and writer on career development and professional advancement for STEM Nerds (engineers, scientists, and technical leaders) and Word Nerds (journalists, communicators, writers, and PR Professionals).
Craft Your Unicorn Career.
This is a fun and fascinating interview you’ll want to listen to again and again!
Quick Science News!
Your Cancer Gone
Does this method really promise treatment for more than the most dire cases?
Carnivorous plants and wasps – strange bedfellows indeed
It would appear that even though pitcher plants will eat wasps, the wasps get their air supply from the pitcher, too. Is this mutualism and not predation?
Iron Space Rain
How does Earth happen to have so much Iron-60, the kind that comes from big stellar explosions?
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Blair’s Animal Corner
Outdoor cats are teeming with disease
Or at least carry as much as a feral cat, despite having a home to come home to…
Carnivorous rice
Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common
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Gluca Gone
How do GLP-1 drugs lead to weight loss?
Insect Pain
How do we know that insects feel pain? We test it!
Gives You Wings
Why are VR researchers making people flap their arms?
Sleepy Time
How much sleep do you get? Is it in the sleep sweet spot?
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This week 10 years ago TWIS Kepler Finds More Planets!, Martian Oxygen???, Earth’s Thin Atmosphere, Oldest Axe Ever, Loud Moths, Interview w/ Josiah Zayner re: Microbiome Transplantation, Lizard Tail Tales, Deadly Reptiles, Conservation By Kids, Sea Star Resurgence?, Memory Genes, Sleep Science, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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May 7th, 2026
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This Week: Guest Host Philip Shane, Death Of A Great Mind, Plastic Heat, Fish Filth, Swedish Power, Double Trouble, Sweet Myelin, Folding Proteins, Baby Mom Yawns, and Much More Science!
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What kind of legacy does a great mind leave
When it shifts from this mortal coil?
What is left after all has been done and said?
What remains of the hopes and dreams
when people remember the man who had been?
Is it the buildings?
The centers?
The labs?
The papers?
Is it the many presentations upon so many stages
That leaves the rest of humanity to guess
What would have been done next?
Or is it the students?
The colleagues?
The nemeses and friends?
Will those who speak now
forever create the space
You inhabit in our minds?
Or, is what is said here on
This Week in Science.
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Quick Science News!
Death Of A Great Mind
Last week, Craig Venter, the spearhead of synthetic biology, died. What comes next?
Plastic Heat
Are microplastics accelerating the warming of our planet?
Fish Filth
How long can Norwegian fish farms last if they’re swimming in filth?
Swedish Power
Why is Sweden digging a giant pit in the ground?
Double Trouble
When the “Big One” hits, will it take both California & Oregon?
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Blair’s Podcast Corner
Fantastical Field Guide
Finding the real-world inspiration for the fantastical creatures from your favorite fiction
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Sweet Myelin
How does the body know when to build myelin?
Folding Proteins
Is your multivitamin helping your proteins get folded?
Baby Mom Yawns
Why do babies yawn when their moms do???
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This week 10 years ago TWIS How Ketamine Lifts, Weight Loss Gains, Dinos And Dung Beetles, Traumatic Insemination, Interview w/ Dr. Amro Hamdoun from UCSD, Rok Runestone Re-Read, Rhino Seed Vault?, 1 Trillion Friends?, Robo-Clicker For Dogs, How To Boil Water On Mars, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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April 30th, 2026
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This Week: Bye-Bye Science Board, Fluoride, Coffee, Bees Love Viruses, Sexist Birds, Yawns, Melatonin, and Much More Science!
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We know that we need to be nice
if we want to have this conversation.
But, sometimes we just feel so frustrated
at what appears to be a choice on your part
to ignore valuable evidence
in favor of a story
you heard from Aunt Mabel.
Now, Aunt Mabel did have an experience,
And wow, did it change her mind.
But, Mabel is just one person
when the tens of thousands in clinical trials
are mighty.
But, we know you don’t know them.
You only know who know.
We only wish you would trust us
when we tell you what we know.
So, we’ll take a breath,
and take a step back.
We aren’t here to change your mind
with just one conversation this week.
But, maybe you’ll enjoy the banter.
Maybe you’ll find some fun.
And, maybe you come back every week
to join people who want to talk with you
here on This Week in Science.
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Quick Science News!
Bye-Bye Science Board
Last Saturday, President Trump fired all the members of the National Science Board with a brief email.
Fluoride Is Fine!
If the evidence doesn’t matter, this story means nothing.
Shocking Coffee
It’s the electrochemical profile of that cup that matters…
3D-MIND
It’s a three-dimensional brain in a dish that is wired up for computation!
Bees Love Viruses
Why do they prefer food containing viruses?
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Kiki’s Animal Corner!
Sexist City Birds?
Do birds really prefer human males over females?
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More Science with Kiki!
Yawns Are Good
What could a yawn possibly do for you?
Get Sleepy
How does melatonin work? Apparently, by inhibiting the effects of sensory stimulation.
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Black Start, Bird Flu, Zoo Life, Blonde Beer, Anti-Microbiotic, Hippie Spiders, Real Pokemon, NIH, Musically Speaking, Screaming Trees, Electrome Eclipse, and Much More!
This week 10 years ago TWIS Interview with Dr. Cat Lutz from the Jackson Lab, Stabby Animals, Needy Nightshade, Alien Oceanography, Brain Thesaurus, Addictive Genes, Antibiotic Progress, Fragile X Memory, Soil Bacteria, Dirty Wine, Corvids Are Smart, A New Moon, Old Climate Records, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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April 23rd, 2026
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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Interview W/Sara Kobilka, Slowing Currents, Hard Freeze, It’s All Connected, Plant Lives, Cocaine Salmon, This Is New, Mars Stuff, and Much More Earth Science!
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Just how much is all this worth?
This planet of ours. This Earth?
In 1997, our global ecosystems were valued at just $33 trillion dollars annually.
give or take $17 trillion dollars.
At the same time, people globally were pumping out somewhere around $18 trillion,
or maybe $28 trillion,
or was it $31 trillion, as according to the WHO?
Later, in 2011, people profit was thought to be around $75 trillion,
while the planet was producing $125 trillion in benefits to people.
That number while shifting through time
decreases as environments are degraded by those activities
that push those profits ever higher.
How high can they get
lest we forget that our future is tied to this planet?
In 2024, nominal GDP was just $111 trillion.
Our population is nearly 8.3 billion.
There are so many reasons to value our planet,
Earth,
and to pay attention to This Week in Science!
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The Interview!
We’re starting the show off with an interview tonight.
Our guest, Sara Kobilka, is a Renaissance Woman and lifelong learner known for her multidisciplinary approach to both work and life. A self-identified multipotentialite and generalist, her career spans television news, nonprofit organizations, higher education, and entrepreneurship, giving her a uniquely broad and adaptable perspective.
Guided by values such as honesty, authenticity, curiosity, and mutual respect, Sara brings an interdisciplinary mindset to everything she does. Based in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley, she balances her professional pursuits with a vibrant personal life as a mother, wife, and enthusiast of gardening, fitness, wine, and theater.
This is a fun and fascinating Earth day interview you’ll want to listen to again and again!
Quick Science News!
Slowing Currents
Is our biggest climate disaster movie fear coming true?
Hard Freeze
Frost or Freeze? Why and when? Does how we talk about it matter?
It’s All Connected
Does the forest have an internet of sorts?
Plant Lives
Are plants really listening to the world around them?
Cocaine Salmon
What is all our cocaine doing to fish?
This Is New
Did we just find a new DNA replication process?
Mars Stuff
What do these organic molecules mean?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed an Interview W/Natan Shahar, Carbon Capturing, Gator Biting, Fur Babies, Cow Burps, Climate Change Cost, Canceling Women Studies, Life in Spce, Deathbots, And Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Bad Bleaching Down Under, Earth Day Plus, Dutch Decisions, Moving Forward, Stinky Lemurs, Mice On Ice, Panamanian Primate, CRISPR Mushrooms, CRISPR Advances, Iron Eaters, Ant Rafts, Interview w/ Jess Pelaez from Blueprint Earth, And Much More!
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April 17th, 2026
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This Week: Physics, Solar Wood, Motherhood Kills, Sunbirds Suck, Octopi, Limb Regeneration, Chatty Cetaceans, Ai is Bad, Hearing The Universe, and Much More Science!
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Until things become taken for granted,
we say, “Granted, it could be better.”
Or, “granted, it’s expensive.”
But, do we push for things to be the best they can be
before they are here to stay?
Why wait for the day when you no longer have a say
to voice your opinion
to cast a vote?
to make a different choice that could bring a better future?
The future doesn’t happen despite us.
It happens because of us.
Let’s think about that together
Here on
This Week in Science!
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Quick Science News!
Physics Making Progress
It’s the little details that matter when it comes to making progress at understanding the universe.
Solar Wood
Is it still wood when the woodiness is removed?
Motherhood kills
But is it worth it? For birds, probably…
Sunbirds Suck
Unlike Hummingbirds, Sunbirds actually use their tongue as a straw.
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Octopuses protect what matters most to them
Their specialized mating arm, of course!
Could the secret to limb regeneration be low oxygen?
Honestly, that probably isn’t why amphibians can and we can’t, but it might lead to some interesting interventions…
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Science with Kiki!
Chatty Cetaceans
Sperm whale clicks have similarities with human speech.
AI is Bad
For your health, if you are asking medical & health-related questions.
The Universe As Never Heard Before
More accurate parameters have allowed researchers to create the most accurate model of universe formation yet.
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed This Week: Scalable Meat, Marriage, Gorillas, Crpws, Gowanus Canal, Fiddler Crabs, Bird Song, Cats, Healthcare, Sensory, and Much More Science you can trust!
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March 26th, 2026
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This Week: Hot Plants, Blair’s Animal Oopsie, Sounds About Right, In-infinite Cloning, Male Fruit Fly Flirting, Platypodes, Control Factors Mouse Vision, and Much More Sciencer!
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This lovely show has been going for a long, long time
So long in fact, that some facts are no longer facts
More than 1000 episodes and more than 25 years means science has continued to progress
And so we have some fresh, new science
That is not so slightly contradictory to previous reporting
to explore and learn about together
…on this week in science!
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Quick Science News!
Hot Plants
What happens to flowering mountain meadows when they get hot?
Blair’s Animal Oopsie
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Sounds About Right
Do humans agree with other animals about what sounds nice in nature?
Cloning isn’t infinite for mammals
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Male fruit flies take an interesting approach to competition.
“Did I tell you how handsome you look tonight?” Does male courtship of other males diffuse tension?
Platypodes – still finding ways to be weird, hundreds of years later
Their fur defies previous expectations for hair pigmentation. And no one can figure out why…
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Control Factors
Who’s driving this thing? Does it matter?
Mouse Vision
What does it look like?
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March 12th, 2026
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This Week: European Ignobel, NIH, Tamper-Free Viruses, Origami Vaccines, Garbled Messages, Brain Cell Centers, Gnawing Need, and Much More Science to Gnaw on!
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Making Moves
… to Europe. Why is the IgNobel award ceremony crossing the pond?
For Freedom
How is highlighting fringe ideas from non-scientists helping the image of the NIH?
Tamper-free Viruses
A new study adds strength to the idea that COVID wasn’t made in a lab.
Origami Vaccines
Will these new vaccines work better than the mRNA vaccines?
Garbled Messages
Could space weather be hindering our attempts to detect alien messages?
Human Centered
Are human brain cell-based data centers a good idea?
Gnawing Need
Chewing is more than mechanical. It might be a motivated behavior.
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