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Make Space for Animals
Jun 22, 2026
54m 00s
Skeptic Check: Disclosure Day
Jun 15, 2026
54m 40s
Vroom!
Jun 8, 2026
54m 00s
Outside of Our Minds
Jun 1, 2026
54m 00s
Skeptic Check: Cryptids
May 25, 2026
54m 00s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/22/26 | ![]() Make Space for Animals | Long before Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space, Laika, a stray dog, crossed the final frontier. Find out what other surprising species were drafted into the astronaut corps. They may be our best friends, but we still balk at giving other creatures moral standing. And why are humans so reluctant to accept the fact that we too are animals? Guests: Jo Wimpenny - Zoologist and writer. Author of “Aesop’s Animals” Taylor Maggiacomo - Associate Graphic Editor at National Geographic Alexander Stegmaier - Freelance Graphic Editor at National Geographic Melanie Challenger - An author who writes on nature, environment and human history. Her latest book: “How to be Animal: A New History of What it Means to be Human” Descripción en español If you have a subscription to National Geographic, check out Taylor and Alex's feature providing a visual timeline of every animal that has gone into space. Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake originally aired January 24, 2022 Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 00s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() Skeptic Check: Disclosure Day | The latest Hollywood romp through the world of aliens has landed in theaters. Steven Spielberg’s movie Disclosure Day suggests that our government has been hiding a cache of evidence about alien visitation that spans decades. It’s fun fiction but does it mesh with reality? Officials have made a series of public disclosures containing information about the government’s UAP program over the years, releasing massive amounts of declassified documents along with audio and video files. Will the most recent data dump finally provide evidence that aliens are here? We look at the extended history of public desire to believe in extraterrestrial visitation, plus the scientific efforts to detect intelligent or microbial life on other worlds. Guests: Adam Kirsch – Senior editor at The Atlantic, and author of, “We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters” Sarah Rugheimer – Astrophysicist at the University of Edinburgh and author of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Life” Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 40s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Vroom!✨ | self-driving carsautomobile history+3 | Witold RybczynskiTimothy B Lee | University of PennsylvaniaThe Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car | — | self-driving carsautonomous vehicles+3 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Outside of Our Minds✨ | human communicationartificial intelligence+3 | Alex BentleyMichael O’Brien+2 | University of TennesseeTexas A&M University+5 | — | communicationartificial intelligence+3 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Skeptic Check: Cryptids✨ | cryptidsBigfoot+4 | Chris RogersBenjamin Radford+2 | Big Picture ScienceSkeptical Inquirer Science Magazine+1 | CaliforniaHalifax, Nova Scotia | cryptidsBigfoot+6 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Allergy Reason✨ | allergieshygiene+4 | James HamblinTheresa MacPhail | YaleStevens Institute of Technology+2 | — | allergieshygiene+5 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Preventing Future Pandemics✨ | pandemic preparednessinfectious disease+3 | Jon Cohen | Science MagazineBig Picture Science+3 | — | pandemicepidemiologists+3 | — | 59m 31s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Shadow of Chernobyl✨ | Chernobylnuclear energy+4 | Steven BiegalskiTom Scott+1 | Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Bristol+3 | Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant | Chernobylnuclear power+5 | — | 58m 02s | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() 40 Years After Chernobyl✨ | Chernobyl disasternuclear power+5 | Adam Higginbotham | Big Picture ScienceAirwave Media+1 | Soviet UnionChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant | Chernobylnuclear disaster+8 | — | 1h 02m 55s | |
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Skeptic Check: Feeling Risky✨ | psychology of risksubjective risk assessment+3 | David Ropeik | Harvard UniversityBig Picture Science+1 | — | riskpsychology+5 | — | 54m 00s | |
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| 4/13/26 | ![]() Old School✨ | Antarctic ice coresancient rocks+4 | Huw GroucuttEd Brook+1 | University of MaltaOregon State University+1 | AntarcticaGermany | ice coreclimate change+5 | — | 1h 04m 54s | |
| 4/6/26 | ![]() Amazing Arctic✨ | Arctic environmentclimate change+3 | Jon WatermanTwila Moon | National Snow and Ice Data CenterInto the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis | — | Arcticclimate crisis+3 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 3/30/26 | ![]() Flower Power✨ | evolutionpaleobotany+3 | Eva-Maria SadowskiRegan Dunn+3 | Museum für NaturkundeLa Brea Tar Pits and Museum+2 | — | flowering plantspaleobotany+3 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 3/23/26 | ![]() Fantastic-er Voyage✨ | medical technologyrobotics+3 | Ira RutkowDick Vethaak+2 | Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamThe Chinese University of Hong Kong+2 | — | robotsintestinal blockages+3 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 3/16/26 | ![]() Skeptic Check: Project Hail Mary✨ | science fictionspace exploration+5 | Andy WeirAndy Fraknoi+2 | NASAAirwave Media+7 | University of San Francisco | Project Hail MaryAndy Weir+5 | — | 59m 14s | |
| 3/9/26 | ![]() Skeptic Check: Moon Conspiracy✨ | moon landing conspiracyNASA Artemis program+5 | Peter KnightRyan Zeigler | NASAUniversity of Manchester+4 | — | moon landingconspiracy theories+5 | — | 57m 04s | |
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Chasing an Asteroid✨ | asteroidsplanetary defense+3 | Scott SandfordRobin George Andrews | NASAHow to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense | EarthBennu | asteroiddeflection experiment+3 | — | 56m 00s | |
| 2/23/26 | ![]() Birds of a Feather✨ | forensic ornithologyaviation safety+3 | Chris SweeneyKristen Ruegg | Bird Genoscape ProjectBig Picture Science+2 | — | forensic ornithologyaviation safety+3 | — | 54m 00s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Celestial Shake-Up | We’re going back to the Moon. The planned March 2026 launch of Artemis II is the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972. Historic as it is, it isn’t the only lunar event creating a stir at NASA. Two seismometers are to be delivered to Schrödinger’s Crater in a mission called The Farside Seismic Suite, in which the instruments will measure moonquakes and record the possible impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 on lunar surface. Meanwhile, studies of the sun are heating up. The so-called PUNCH mission, a four-satellite constellation that will create an image of the sun’s corona and solar winds, may help us better understand what drives solar storms and how we can protect Earth from their energetic blasts. Guests: Eugene Cernan – Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt – Geologist and Apollo 17 astronaut Andrew Rivkin – Planetary astronomer at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University Ceri Nunn – Lunar seismologist and planetary scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ryan French – solar physicist, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics, Boulder, Colorado, and author of “Space Hazards: Asteroids, Solar Flares and Cosmic Threats” Craig DeForest – Heliophysicist, Southwest Research Institute, principal investigator on NASA’s PUNCH mission Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 00s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | ![]() Hot to Cold | There are benefits to chilling out. When we cool superconductors to 460℉ degrees below zero, they acquire extraordinary properties that help run quantum computers. Can artificially cooling human bodies also provide profound benefit? Some cryonics startup companies say yes, promising “life after death” through cryogenic freezing. While it’s one thing to freeze all the cells in a body, it is another to revive them. What happens, for instance, to memories when brains thaw? While we gauge how low human body temperatures can go, new research suggests another form of life could find home in the cooler temperatures of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Find out how NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will investigate whether that moon could support alien microbes. Guests: Steve Austad – Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research Olivia Lanes – Global Lead for Quantum Content and Education at IBM Quantum Austin Green – Post doctoral research associate at Virginia Tech University, and former JPL postdoctoral fellow and affiliate scientist on Europa Clipper Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Correction: An editing error caused a mistake in describing how cold affects inflammation. Contrary to popular belief, at least one study found that cold increases inflammation, at least in the short term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 38s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | ![]() Like Lightning | Every second, lightning strikes 50 to 100 times somewhere. It can wreak havoc by starting wildfires and sometimes killing people. But lightning also produces a form of nitrogen that’s essential to vegetation. In this episode, we talk about the nature of these dramatic sparks. Ben Franklin established their electric origin, so what do we still not know? Also, why the frequency of lightning strikes is increasing in some parts of the world. And, what to do if you find someone hit by lightning. Guests: Thomas Yeadaker – Resident of Oakland, California Chris Davis – Medical doctor and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest University and Medical Director for the National Center for Outdoor Adventure Education Jonathan Martin –Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Steve Ackerman – Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison Peter Bieniek – Professor of Atmospheric and Space Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Descripción en español Originally aired September 12, 2022 Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 00s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | ![]() Cold to Hot | The icy-white crust of Arctic permafrost is melting, and increased plant growth is turning the glacial north green. Metals like iron, once locked inside the ice, are leaching into hundreds of Arctic rivers, giving them an orange hue. Vivid changes may catch our eye, yet invisible shifts are also afoot. Microbes locked in the frozen ground since the age of the mammoths can now be revived when they thaw. We’re exploring the consequences of changes in permafrost, how AI may help us better understand Greenland ice loss, and get reactions from scientists about the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the premier climate and weather researcher centers in the world. Guests: Tristan Caro – Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological and Planetary Sciences Division, California Institute of Technology Twila Moon – Glaciologist and deputy lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, within the cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Abagael Pruitt – Biochemist and ecosystem ecologist, postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Davis Karina Zikan – Glaciologist and snow hydrologist, PhD candidate at Boise State University Roland Pease – Science writer and broadcaster often heard on the BBC World Service, and former presenter and host of its program Science in Action Alan Sealls – Retired broadcast meteorologist, adjust professor at the University of South Alabama and president of the American Meteorological Society Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 59m 54s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | ![]() Where the Wind Blows | It’s omnipresent on Earth and absent on the Moon. When it’s blowing sand in our eyes or frigid air down our necks, we may curse the wind, but living on a planet without it would be stultifying. Join us as we sail through a discussion with journalist and author Simon Winchester about the many practical and playful uses of wind – from boats to turbines to kites – and how it has shaped history, including the growth of civilization itself. Guest: Simon Winchester – Journalist and author of “The Breath Of The Gods: The History and Future of the Wind” Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 39s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | ![]() Life in the Solar System | Spewing lava and belching noxious fumes, volcanoes seem hostile to biology. But the search for life off-Earth includes the hunt for these hotheads on other moons and planets, and we tour some of the most imposing volcanoes in the Solar System. Plus, a look at how tectonic forces reshape bodies from the moon to Venus to Earth. And a journey to the center of our planet reveals a surprising layer of material at the core-mantle boundary. Find out where this layer was at the time of the dinosaurs and what powerful forces drove it deep below. Guests: Samantha Hansen – Geologist at the University of Alabama Paul Byrne – Associate professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Robin George Andrews – Science journalist and author of “Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond” Originally aired May 29, 2023 Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 00s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | ![]() Skeptic Check: Hypnosis | You are getting sleeeepy and open to suggestion. But is that how hypnotism works? And does it really open up a portal to the unconscious mind? Hypnotism can be an effective therapeutic tool, and some scientists suggest replacing opioids with hypnosis for pain relief. And yet, the performance aspect of hypnotism often seems at odds with the idea of it being an effective treatment. In our regular look at critical thinking, Skeptic Check, we ask what part of hypnotism is real and what is an illusion. Plus, we discuss how the swinging watch became hypnotism’s irksome trademark. Guests: David Spiegel – Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine Devin Terhune – Reader in the Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London Originally aired June 27, 2002 Graphic by Shannon Rose Geary Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 53m 50s | ||||||
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