July 10th, 2026
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This Week: Orbital Weapons, Vanta Black Satellites, Emotional Bees, Old Enzymes, Light Tech, Sex-changing Spiders, Cephalopod Brains, Cry For Health, Brain Damage, Preventing Trauma, and Much More Science!
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After a weekend of exploding skies
now the east coast
is exploding with diarrhea?
Where is the CDC as state health departments
wrangle a new threat to public safety?
Where are the institutions
created over some 250 years
to serve our citizens?
Did a referee hand them a red card?
Are they just out for a match?
Will they be back?
We have hope here on
This Week in Science.
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Orbital Weapons
Can we detect nuclear weapons in space before it’s too late?
Paint It Black
Will the blackest black paint make satellites better for astronomy?
Bees
They’re emotional!
Old Enzymes
Let’s bring back the old to learn about the new.
Light Tech
The future looks bright thanks to technologies that make our photon production and detection more energy efficient.
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Sex-changing spider bacteria
Disrupted by climate – and that’s a bad thing
Ocean acidification
Shrinks cephalopod brains – nooooooOOOOOOOoooooo
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Cry For Health
What if your tears could be used to check your brain health?
Permanent Damage
Is chronic brain damage responsible for neurodegenerative mortality among football players?
Preventing Trauma
What if one protein could stop childhood trauma from having permanent consequences?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed A Different Science Fair, Cucumbers, Zoonotic Time Travel, Tortoises, Crabs, Chimps, New Brain Cells, Dance Brains, and Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS discussed Shifting Clouds, JunoCam, Two Blind Mice, Cicada Turn On, Crow Clean Up, Raven Friends, Cannibal Neanderthals, Social Immune Brains, Bacterial Brains, X Marks Brainy Maps Echolocation For All, Monkey Tools, Monkey Smarts, Swimming Robot Domination, And Much More!
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July 3rd, 2026
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This Week: Spudcell, Colossal Effort, Planigales, Homo Naledi, Crocodile Brians, Snails, Overies, and Much More Science Lighting Up the Skies!
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I missed a view of the Strawberry moon
because it was overcast in Portland.
This wasn’t such a surprise
for a night at the 45th Parallel.
What do you see when you look up?
Clouds? Pollution? Or clear skies and stars?
What if that view
were filled with satellites instead?
If your long-exposure telescopic images
were streaked from right to left,
criss-cross, and up and down?
How many launches will it take
to fill the night sky?
How many lost fireflies?
Will the endangered be missed
when we have their genome frozen in a dish?
How is the view on
This Week in Science?
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SpudCell
What is it?
A Colossal Effort
Is a partnership between the government and Colossal a good idea?
Do you know about planigales?
Now you do! And there are new ones!
Homo naledi News
Why are only females buried in that cave?
This Fourth
Don’t burn the country down.
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Crocodile brains
Remain unchanged, but that snout keeps showing up
Snails
Change with the weather!
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Ovaries For Immunity?
What happens to ovaries after they become non-reproductive?
Bringing You Back
Will a new BCI system help minimally conscious people heal their brains?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed LLM-assisted writing, Exercise Pills, Long Lived Mice, Scotland’s Birds, Orcas’ Pets, Fish Schools, High Elevation Scents, Climate Change, Triglycerides, Spatial Cognition, and Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS discussed Juno You Know, Extremophile Culture!, Fungi farming, Paper Wasps Misrepresentin’, Bonobo Lady Wiles, The American Ostrich, Faulty fMRIs, Beetle Penises, Matching Genomes, Octopus Eyes, Martian Moons, Titan Life?, And Much More!
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June 25th, 2026
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This Week: .Gov vs .US, Cleaning Phones, Mines and Rain, Pod Presence, Pterosaur Wings, Bilingual Brains, Laugh Lines, Eyes, and Much More Science!
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Disclaimer Disclaimer Disclaimer
The war of the words started long ago.
You might not have noticed then,
but now you know
that words don’t work the way that they used to.
Do we live in the upside down?
What happened to dialog?
What happened to accepted definitions?
When did science start to mean
“I think I’m better than you.”?
IF we dial it back,
this has been in the making for decades.
The hubbub over evolution versus creationism
wasn’t just a philosophical schism.
It was a wedge to crack the foundations
of education that had helped this nation.
It dredged up animosities
that had been put aside with more & more advanced degrees.
People were learning to see more diversely.
All it did was scare the ministry.
We saw the focus shift from conversations
to recitations of what the word theory really means.
Why did that happen?
We have ideas here on
This Week in Science!
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Quick Science News!
Replacing The Government… Websites
What used to be climate.gov is now climate.us.
Clean your phones!
Especially doctors…
Deep Flow
What happens to the air deep underground in mines when it rains?
Pod Presence
Which orcas are hanging in Puget Sound these days?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Pterosaur wings are more diverse than that museum might lead you to believe
Once again, we are faced with the reality that paleontologists are just posing some bones and going, “yeah, that looks good.”
Kiki’s Animal Corner!
Sneaky New Spider
They thought it was a mushroom.
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Bilingual Brains
Do our brains store languages together or separately?
Laugh Lines
Where does laughter come from?
See? See!
Eyes respond to input.
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Vera’s First Look, Dragons, Fertility. Anthrobots, Vascular Organoids, Orcas, Octopi, Car T, Type 1 Cure, Ears, Glow Brains, Morning Chorus, and Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS discussed Mercury’s A Meteorite?, Mars Might Tridymite, Sneaky Black Holes, Hobbit Hole Fires, Kalimantan Deep Skull, Naked Dragons, Blue Tit Danger Songs, Snails On Acid, Chronically Your Gut, THC For Brains, Air Combat Robot Domination, Cockatoo Smarts, Sexy Mantis Snacks, Sexy Smelling Birds, Exercise To Remember, Text Brain?, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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June 19th, 2026
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This Week: The Underground, Climate Change Survey, Forever? Chemicals, Blood Thinning, Dead Whales, Zebra Finch, Scared Pregnant Mice, Contagious Fear, Sneaky Spiders, Knee Pain, Bird Brains, Gamer Critics, and Much More Science Smarts!
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A non-injection universal COVID vaccine might be on the way.
HPV vaccination keeps cervical cancer at bay
(along with all sorts of other nasties)
so protect your sons and daughters today.
Without routine vaccination,
we run the risk of running natural experiments on ourselves.
What do we think we will learn by discarding the evidence of decades past?
We know once upon a time,
many of us died or were damaged by diseases that ravaged.
We created vaccines to control those demons,
but nuance to treatment came with costs of their own.
So many lessons learned over so many years.
Of course, we still can’t target our targets perfectly.
There are so many parameters to consider.
But, is starting over really what we need to remember
that we already have the technology and know-how
and This Week in Science.
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Quick Science News!
The Underground
Just how much of our Earth is connected by underground fungal networks in the soil?
Latest survey of americans on climate change
results are simultaneously surprising and not…
Forever Or For Now?
Can we figure out how to get rid of forever chemicals?
Blood Thinning You Can Love
What does a new source for heparin mean???
Dead Whales
Where are they?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Zebra Finch calls warn unborn chicks
How does a parent’s calls change physiology from outside the egg??
Pregnant moms scared by fake snakes pass knowledge on to babies
Scaring pregnant mouse mothers – for science!!
Rays pass fear onto neighbors… chemically
Is fear contagious? Sounds like a resounding maybe.
Kiki’s Animal Corner!
Sneaky New Spider
They thought it was a mushroom.
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Knee Pain Takes Balls
Is knee pain going to be surgery-free eventually?
Ladies Look For Skills
What do female chickadees look for in a mate? Yeah, you know it’s bigger brains.
Gamers Are Critics
Want a truly rabid fanbase for your game? Lean into the constructive criticism.
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Take a blast into the past…
What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Early Humans, Terriers, T. gondii, Spiders, Sugar Substitute, Weight Loss Drug, Weight Loss, Live Longer Eat More, and Much More Science Smarts!
This week 10 years ago TWIS discussed CRISPR For Cancer, Cas9 Versus Mutations, High Life, Source Of Rice, Oldest Farmers, Tricky Crab Traps, Dating Advice From Fish, Interview w/ Britt-Marie Hermes re: naturopathy vs. medicine, Smart Little Kakas, Undead Genes, Zika Vaccine, Placebo Brain Games, Quasi-Satellite, Robot Brains, And Much More Science Smarts! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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June 12th, 2026
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This Week: Supersonic Planes, Galactic Winds, SpiderCam, Electric Squirts, Owl Brilliance, Neural Disappointment, Fructose Failing, Turning Left, and Much More Science!
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This program does not eject those who belong.
Not even for singing a song that isn’t to our liking.
If one’s behavior is consistent
with the rules of the community,
the ideas should be given time
and consideration.
Science doesn’t kick ideas out.
Evidence does that…
or, biased individuals threatened by contradiction.
Stay for all the ideas here on
This Week in Science!
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Quick Science News!
Supersonic Planes
Is this the origin of the sonic thump?
Galactic Winds
Do they put out stellar fires?
SpiderCam
Science spies with little spider eyes…
Electric Squirts
Can we use electricity to rejuvenate coral reefs?
Owl Brilliance
How do barn owls use light to help them hunt?
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Neural Disappointment
Are some people wired for greater disappointment in life?
Fructose Failing
Is how we respond to fructose all in our heads?
Turning Left
Why do we do it?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Sham Panel, Strategic Hawks, Chimps, Cucumbers, and Bats Fight Cancer, Napping Bees, and Much More!
This week 10 years ago TWIS discussed Bioluminescent Fishes, CRISPR on RNA, Deglaciating Bison, Pre-Columbian Trade, Fish Face, Fiber-Optic Eyes, Microplastic Bothers, Interview w/ Dr. Elizabeth Sibert on World Oceans, Slime Mold Problem-Solvers, Jumping Eels, Provisional Names!, New Chemical Rules!, Inbred Neander News, Not Lost City, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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June 5th, 2026
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This Week: New Science Rules, Mosquitoes, Bad Food, Bad Gut, Wild Pigs, Pigeon Hypotheses, Bower Bird Bonanza, Octopus Mirror Attack, and Much More Science!
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The proposal has been submitted.
So many hours we thought it through.
We understand it might not land,
and although our aims were true.
Yet, an itch won’t let me rest.
Even though we tried our best
to explain the idea,
the methods, and evaluative schemes,
it’s possible our words won’t screen.
Did we mention diversity?
Or was it all American citizenry?
We’re blessed, I guess to not study sex,
but rather the homogeneity of science-ness.
And what if we win an award?
What will happen then?
Will the money come through?
Will the effort be allowed to pursue
all the things it wants to do?
Or, will this dream be pulled down the drain?
We propose you listen to This Week in Science.
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New Rules For Science?
Let’s hope not.
Are you training mosquitoes to bite you?
DEET may no longer be the silver bullet for insect bites
Bad Food Quality
What makes ultraprocessed foods so bad? A new study suggests that it’s not the food part that’s to blame.
Bad Gut Sequencing
A survey of gut cell genomes has discovered very important differences.
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When wild pigs aren’t a pain
They might as well fly while they are at it!
The latest in pigeon hypotheses
IT’S THEIR LIVER!!
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Bower Bird Bonanza
What kind of decorations do Bower birds like best? Definitely the shiny stuff made by people.
Octopus Mirror Attack
Octopodes can learn how mirrors work and use them to attack prey. Enough said.
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Take a blast into the past…
What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Science State, Frogs, Light Limits, Trash Parrot Update, A Tiny Violin, Baboons and Rocks, Birds Flying Far North, Garbage Gull, Making Myelin, Mouth Tape, and Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS discussed Don’t Fear Your Phone, Virus Battles Cancer, Global Spin Marketing, To Catch A Cheater, Amphipod Claws, Interview w/ Sean Carroll about The Big Picture, Dancing Insect Hairs, Life From Comets, Of Peppered Moths And Butterfly Wings, Pot News, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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June 4th, 2026
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This Week: Interview w/Dr. Andrew Thaler, Watching Wildlife, New Octopus, Cucumber Bits, Backrooms, and Much More Science!
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UNDER THE SEA
IT’S NOT JUST WETTER
IT’S UNDER MORE PRESSURE
INHOSPITABLE TO HUMANS
WHILE A HAVEN FOR CRUSTACEANS,
TUBE WORMS, AND MORE.
THOUSANDS OF SPECIES
BIODIVERSITY GALORE.
YET, THAT’S NOT THE DRAW
IN OUR TECH OBSESSED AGE.
WE SOMETHING SHINY.
COULD IT MAKE SOMEONE MONEY?
PROBABLY A LOT MORE THAN
WE MAKE HERE ON
THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE!
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The Interview!
We’re starting the show off with an interview tonight.
Our guest, Andrew Thaler, PhD, is a Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the most remote parts of our world. Connect with him on Instagram & Bluesky!
Founder and CEO of Blackbeard Biologic: Science and Environmental Advisors.
He is also a Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to help communities study and understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel tools to help students learn and interact with marine ecosystems.
This is a fun and fascinating interview you’ll want to listen to again and again!
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Blair’s Animal Corner
While watching wildlife, are we the show?
How does the presence of humans impact animals, even when all we are doing is minding our own business?
New octopus just dropped!
Look what researchers found via ROV! Tiny blue guy!!
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Cucumber Bits
What makes sea cucumber cells tick? Researchers want to know more about their persistent epidermis.
Backrooms Go Front Stage
What are Backrooms and why do we obsess over them so much?
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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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