Covid Update Archive

  • 7 January, 2026 – Episode 1042 – Sanitize Your Timeline with Science

    7 January, 2026 – Episode 1042 – Sanitize Your Timeline with Science

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

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  • 28 August, 2025 – Episode 1027 – You Can’t Retract Good Science

    28 August, 2025 – Episode 1027 – You Can’t Retract Good Science

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interstellar Interloper, Mind’s Eye, Jumping Spiders, Pig Lungs, Covid Shots, Ape Medicine, Cane Toads, Bird Poop, Justin Trashes a Study, Phantom limb, Big Brainy Thumb, Nature Words, and Much More Good Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our podcast […]

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  • 31 July, 2024 – Episode 980 – How is Science Just Like the Olympics?

    31 July, 2024 – Episode 980 – How is Science Just Like the Olympics?

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: The Nose Knows, COVID-19 in Wildlife, Flying Hippos, Warp Drive, CBG, Toxo for Good, Komodo Dragons, Snakes, Doctors, Firearms, No Buy AI, Agents of Fear, Attractive Odors, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our science podcast […]

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  • 19 July 2023 – Episode 935 – Science to Sing About

    19 July 2023 – Episode 935 – Science to Sing About

    What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: No Dark Matter, English Study Bias, Private Medicine, Babies Love Opera, Underwater Pollinators, No Symptoms, Bat Music, Scared Flies, Mini-Brains, Smarter Better, And Much More Science to Sing About! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our science podcast on YouTube […]

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  • 09 November, 2022 – Episode 900 – 900 Weeks of Science!

    09 November, 2022 – Episode 900 – 900 Weeks of Science!

    This 900th Week: World Science Day, Greenland, Music, Fertilizer Fields, Plants, Cosmic Spin Cycle, Vaccine Hoarding, Vaccine Choice, Pigs, Fish, Octopuses, Ötzi, Canaanite Comb, Get Low, Get Some Sleep!, And Much More Science!

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  • 19 October, 2022 – Episode 897 – Are you a Mosquito Magnet?

    19 October, 2022 – Episode 897 – Are you a Mosquito Magnet?

    This Week: Mosquito Magnets, Recipe for Disaster, Tuataras, Hidden Star Maps, Multicellular Bacteria, Ornithomimosaurs, Researchers Gone Wild?, COVID Brain Effects, Connection Destruction, Vaccinating Wild Animals, Social Spiders, Neanderthal Family Trees, Age of the Neanderhumanthals, Brain Whispers, And Much More Science!

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  • 05 October, 2022 – Episode 895 – Who Teaches You Science?

    05 October, 2022 – Episode 895 – Who Teaches You Science?

    This Week: 2022 Nobel Prizes, Whale Shark Hunt, Scientist Redundancy, Life Energy Origins, Dinosaur-killing asteroid, Fungal Cancers, Banana Beer, Safe Far LEDs, Chimps & Gorillas, Bird Life, It’s Fat Bear Week!, California’s Painted Ladies, New Electrodes!, What Is Consciousness?, And Much More Science!

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  • 21 September, 2022 – Episode 893 – Falling in love with Science

    21 September, 2022 – Episode 893 – Falling in love with Science

    This Week: IgNobel Fun, Anxiety, Blue light, NASA News, Ants, Frogs & Mosquitos, Octopuses, Woodlice, Ancient Opium, Microbial Name-Calling, Alzheimer's, Moss & Man, And Much More Science!

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