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  • 2 July, 2025 – Episode 2021 – Does This Show Need a Science Title?

    2 July, 2025 – Episode 2021 – Does This Show Need a Science Title?

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: 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! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. Remember that you […]

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  • 25 June, 2025 – Episode 1020 – The Future of Science Starts Now

    25 June, 2025 – Episode 1020 – The Future of Science Starts Now

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week:  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! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. Remember that you can […]

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  • 11 June, 2025 – Episode 1018 – Panel? More like Shamel!

    11 June, 2025 – Episode 1018 – Panel? More like Shamel!

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Sham Panel, Strategic Hawks, Chimps, Cucumbers, and Bats Fight Cancer, Napping Bees, and Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. Remember that you can find TWIS in all the podcast directories. If […]

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  • 4 June, 2025 – Episode 1017 – Just Banging Rocks on Trees

    4 June, 2025 – Episode 1017 – Just Banging Rocks on Trees

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: 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! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. […]

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  • 21 May, 2025 – Episode 1016 – Do Dolphins Discuss Science?

    21 May, 2025 – Episode 1016 – Do Dolphins Discuss Science?

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: CRISPR, Government-Sanctioned Mass Extinction, Bugs in Space, Shrinking Clownfish, Bees Sleep, Dolphins Talk, Blocking Cell Death, Toothy Origins, and Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. Remember that you can find TWIS […]

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  • 14 May, 2025 – Episode 1015 – Librarians Will Save Democracy

    14 May, 2025 – Episode 1015 – Librarians Will Save Democracy

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Science, Knowledge, & Power, Forever Chemicals, AI Exaggeration, Internal Inference, Prey Trapping, Labile Language, Librarians Saving Democracy, and Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. Remember that you can find TWIS in […]

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  • 7 May, 2025 – Episode 1014 – Science! You Get What You Pay For!

    7 May, 2025 – Episode 1014 – Science! You Get What You Pay For!

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Tiny Life, Human Fungus, Honeyguides, Survey Says, Vaccines and Menstruation, Art with Porpoise, Cuttlefish, Shrimp, Brain Computer Interface, Neanderthals, Tiny Town, On Being, and Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. Remember […]

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  • 30 April, 2025 – Episode 1013 – When is a Power Grid a Metaphor?

    30 April, 2025 – Episode 1013 – When is a Power Grid a Metaphor?

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Black Start, Bird Flu, Zoo Life, Blonde Beer, Anti-Microbiotic, Hippie Spiders, Real Pokemon, NIH, Musically Speaking, Screaming Trees, Electrome Eclipse, and Much More Science Power! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast on YouTube or Twitch. Remember that you […]

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