February 5th, 2026
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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Story Updates!, Vapor Tracking, Roadkill, Lanternfly, Worms, Caterpillars, Conservation, Prediction From Memory, SpacexAi, Defining Consciousness, and Much More Science!
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Some days are better than others.
We hope all your days
make you think of
This Week in Science
coming up next…
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Quick Science News!
Story Updates!
What’s up with Artemis II? Is offshore wind going to roar back into action? Can judges change anything about how the DOE & EPA deal with climate change?
Vapor Tracking
Isotopes are dope!
Roadkill… for science!
I mean, it’s just lying there…
Lantern Fly Focus
Where did we go wrong with Spotted Lanternfly management?
Ridding The World Of Worms
What are guinea worms, and why are we excited about eradicating them?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Caterpillars may be responsible for the next microphone
Are you hearing me ok or are my woolly bears off?
How to get ahead… err.. afoot in conservation
Tracking footprints might be the best passive monitoring out there
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Science stories with Kiki!
Prediction From Memory
How does the hippocampus influence cognitive brain function beyond memory?
SpacexAI
Why space is not the place for data centers…
Defining Consciousness
Why do we need to define concepts like intelligence & consciousness more accurately?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Science In Danger?, Frogs, Better Pain, Revive Your System, Octopus, Bats, Mice, Active Listening, And Much More!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Interview w/ Daniel Hummer re: The Carbon Mineral Challenge, CRISPR Alert!, Giving Babies Cooties, Let’s Go Renewable!, Not Peak Ocean, Safer X-Rays, Corvids-R-Smart, Disruptive Climate, Chubby Kitchens, And Much More!
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January 29th, 2026
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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Nasal Vaccine, Artificial Light & Pollen Season, EVs, Train Snakes, Heavy Hoppers, Hot Tubbin Macaque, Howlers, Language, Parkinsons, Dread, and Much More Science!
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
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Quick Science News!
New Nasal Vaccine
Are we finally going to get a nasal vaccine for COVID?
Artificial light at night extends pollen season
Turn off the porch light, you’re making me sneeze!
EVs FTW
Do EVs actually do anything good? YES!
Train Snakes
Yup. Cobras are actually snakes on planes.
Heavy Hoppers
Could ancient giant kangaroos hop?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Hot tubbin is part of my health plan
Well it would be if I were a Japanese macaque
Howler monkey howls are larger than life
But true howlers know…
National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation
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Science stories with Kiki!
Where Language Is?
Let your little brain talk…
Parkinsons Prognosis
When is Parkinson’s prominent?
Dreading It
Did you know that dread and fear cause more pain than positive anticipation? What does that mean for humanity?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed The End Of Social Social Media, Climate Collusion, Researcher Targets, Smelly Spider Legs, Ants with Grudges, And Much More !
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Alzheimer’s Seeds?, CRISPR Update!, Computer Beats Man, Little Crumpled Balls, Weird Bird Navigation, Big Mammal Brains, No Striped Camo, Appalachian Dino, Consciousness In Balance, Genes For Schizophrenia, Hedgehogs For Teeth, And Much More!
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January 22nd, 2026
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This Week: Interview with Dr. Clare Fieseler, Windmill, Acetaminophen, Fight Aging, Artificial Light & Pollen, Bloody Mossies, T. rex, Hot Tubbin, Howler Monkeys, Cow Tools, Cow Food, and Much More!
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When the weather is bitter,
How do you find a glimmer
of warmth, goodwill, or joy?
Do you curl up indoors?
Find new places to explore?
Resist hostile occupation?
Celebrate Congress funding science in this great nation?
Witness illegal kidnappings with neighbors?
Sing protest songs of the day?
Scroll for baby animal dopamine hits?
Or, do you check out
This Week in Science?
Coming up next…
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The Interview!
We’re starting the show off with an interview tonight.
Our guest is Dr. Clare Fieseler, a scientist and journalist whose work focuses on people coping with a changing ocean and a warming world. Clare is a recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, is a National Geographic explorer, and does research through the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. You can find Clare’s work in National Geographic, Vox, Grist, The Washington Post, Politico, and Canary Media. Welcome to the show, Clare.x
Currently, she is covering oceans and offshore wind for Canary Media, a U.S.-based non-profit newsroom. She has been a staff reporter for POLITICO covering the green energy transition. Prior to that, Clare was an investigative reporter covering environmental issues in the South for The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.). In this interview Dr. Kiki and Dr. Clare get into the impacts of stopping offshore wind in the US, going to be for our energy economy & infrastructure, the reason President tRump seems so opposed to wind power, and the man who might be behind the fall of off shore wind in the US.
She is a National Geographic Explorer and maintains an unpaid research appointment at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She is currently collaborating with museum curator Nick Pyenson on a National Geographic Society-funded project combining research and visual storytelling.
Though they talk a lot about wind there is nothing long-winded about this interesting interview you’ll want to listen to again and again!
Quick Science News!
No Autism From Acetaminophen
Is this latest review the final word on paracetamol safety?
Fight Aging?
Get vaccinated… for shingles!
Artificial light at night extends pollen season
Turn off the porch light, you’re making me sneeze!
Bloody Mossies
Are mosquitoes in Brazil becoming hungrier for human blood?
Delayed T Rex Action
How long did it take for the T. rex to reach full size?
COW TOOLS!
Was The Far Side prescient? Are cows tool users?
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Take a windmill into the past…
What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed The End Of Social Social Media, Climate Collusion, Researcher Targets, Smelly Spider Legs, Ants with Grudges, And Much More !
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Live from SF Sketchfest! Predatory Mice, Ark Time!, Work Life Balance, Moth Parts, Clymatia, Mother Mary Shark!, And Much More!
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January 16th, 2026
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This Week: Hot Waters, Plastic Bombshell?, The Desert, African EV’s, Red Hair Reason, Queen Bees, AI Issues, Deer Scrapings, Pore Problems, Rhythm Recognitions, and Much More Science!
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I’m trying to think of something optimistic to say
to start the show with a big hooray
but with the state of things as they are
it’s getting harder to remember
that there is still more to discover
that people will always seek
to learn more
to be curious, ask questions
that will be answers tomorrow.
Though today might be dark
we can look to the light
and fill ourselves with knowledge tonight
here on This Week in Science
Coming up next…
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Quick Science News!
Hot Waters
Why should we be concerned about rising ocean temperatures and heat absorbsion?
Plastic Bombshell?
How accurate are all of the studies finding our bodies filled with plaastics?
The desert isn’t so barren afterall.
To some but not many’s shock and awe, the desert is full of life
African EVs
How fast could electric vehicles begin to replace internal combustion cars in Africa?
Red Hair Reason
Could red hair actually be a mechanism for managing toxic levels of cysteine?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Queen bees don’t have a taste for manual labor
Their tongues just won’t allow it, it isn’t their fault!
AI causing havoc for animals
Does AI offer any bright side for conservation? Or is it all bad??
Deer scrapings
They glow! What’s with all the glowing mammals…?
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Science stories with Kiki!
Pore Problems
How does a quality control breakdown lead to neurodegeneration?
Rhythm Recognition
How does our brain create the perception of body as self?
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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 The End Of Social Social Media, Climate Collusion, Researcher Targets, Smelly Spider Legs, Ants with Grudges, And Much More !
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Rumors On Waves, CRISPR Alert, The Anthropocene Arrives, Fuzzy Memory, PBS Sanity, Spiteful Little Monkeys, 3D Mantis Science, Selecting Your Sperm, Giant Canyon!, Estrogen Fights Flu, Interview w/ William Dichtel, And Much More!
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January 8th, 2026
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This Week: COVID Cases, Surprising Survival, Oldest Humans?, Old Poison, 400-year-old shark eyes, Bacterial Brains, Treating Alzheimer’s Disease, and Much More Science!
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Should old lessons be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should what we’ve learned be ignored?
In favor of Auld Lang Syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne,
We’ll record it all for posterity,
The days of auld lang syne.
Society has come so far,
Reached so many dreams,
But we’ve also lost so many dear,
since the days of auld lang syne.
We’ll raise a cup of kindness yet,
in the name of Auld Lang Syne.
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Quick Science News!
COVID Cases
COVID-19 still kills approximately 100,000 people per year in the US. We could save lives with more comprehensive vaccination among vulnerable populations.What will happen to this and othe disease rates if vaccinations are less promoted?
Surprising Survival
Ammonites lasted longer than we thought
Oldest Humans?
Did researchers discover evidence supporting the idea that humans emerged out of Africa?
Old Poison
Hunters used poison on arrowheads 60,000 years ago. When did they learn to use toxins for the hunt?
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400 year old shark eyes
No, it isn’t something decaying in a cave somewhere, it’s a working eyeball!
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Science stories with Kiki!
Bacterial Brains
What happens when you give primate bacteria to mice?
Treating Alzheimer’s Disease
Will we be able to prevent and treat AD one day? Perhaps with simple supplements or auditory stimulation?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed What does TWIS think were the year’s top science stories? This end-of-year episode counts down the Top 11 science news stories of 2024 and Much More!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Interview w/ Futurist and Author, Amy Webb, Review of 2016 Predictions, Predictions for 2017, And Much More! Tilting into the past with TWIS!
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December 11th, 2025
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This Week: Space Gum, Dinosaur Dots, Elephants & Bees, Kids & Dogs, Glyphosate Ghostwriting, Tilting Tumblebots, Necroprinter, And Much More Science!
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What got more attention this week?
That a wind turbine dropped a massive blade into a cranberry bog,
or that a US District judge said “tilting at windmills” is arbitrary & capricious?
If you heard the stories at all,
you are among the few paying attention
to the to-dos
& kerfuffles
that this week gave a win to wind power.
Perhaps we’ll see a few more whirling wonders in the world.
Just because someone doesn’t like it,
doesn’t mean they can stop it.
Just like This Week in Science.
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Science News with Kiki!
Space Gum
What does it mean that the building blocks for life have been found on asteroid Bennu? And, who dropped their gum?
Dinosaur Dots!
Was Diplodocus speckled? New evidence suggest variation in coloration of this dinosar group.
Elephants & Bees
Apparently, elephants in Botswana aren’t concerned with African bees.
Kids & Dogs
Maybe the influence of the family dog on the mental health of children is due to more than the dog?
Glyphosate Ghostwriting
I was impacted. Were you?
Tumbling Tumblebots?
Will these be the environment sensing swarm-bots of the future?
Necroprinter!
The latest innovation in using dead bugs in engineering… involves a mosquito.
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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 Abstract Quantum Something, Coffee Lobby?, Filtration Nation, Tiny Space Rocks, No Hubble tension?, The Hubble tension is real!, Brain Sculpting, Listen & Learn, And Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Indie CRISPR Hacking w/ Josiah Zayner, Future Toxo Cure, Faulty Tardigrade Study?, Short Versus Long, Girl Complications, Tallness And Telomeres, Killer Kiwis, Cannibal Hippos, Metal Power!, Correlation Crazy, We Aren’t Holograms, And Much More! Tilting into the past with TWIS!
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December 5th, 2025
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This Week: NREL Rename, Red Head Problems, Too Hot for Plants, Cat Companions, Visualize Science, Battery Battering, And Much More in The Name of Science!
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What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Right?
If we rename a National Laboratory to something less functionary,
Does that change its function?
Or, does it just make it easier for that function to be altered?
Thoughts like this and more on
This Week in Science.
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Not The Same
Why rename the National Renewable Energy Lab now?
Red Head Problems?
Are wound healing issues related to hair color?
Too Hot to Handle
Why did plants stop working 56 million years ago?
Cat Companions
What were the first cats to hang with humans?
How To Visualize Science
Seriously, this one is for the people who need it.
Battery Battering
Why does Kiki love this study so much??? Because it’s a science smackdown!
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December 1st, 2025
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This Week: Virtual Brain, Cockroach Cuddles, Lactaid Appreciation, Gratitude for Understanding Ourselves, And Much More!
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It’s the season for thanks, for gratitude, and talking about science with cranks.
As we venture to share
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We’d rather not have the turkey exploded, but fried.
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This year, Blair is Thankful for Lactaid!
What is Lactose Intolerance
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