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Estimated from 18 chart positions in 18 markets.
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- 🇺🇸US · Natural Sciences#1525K to 30K
- 🇳🇱NL · Natural Sciences#2230K to 100K
- 🇧🇷BR · Natural Sciences#3930K to 100K
- 🇮🇹IT · Natural Sciences#9510K to 30K
- 🇰🇷KR · Natural Sciences#1311K to 10K
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61K to 221K🎙 Weekly cadence·11 episodes·Last published 4mo ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
123K to 441K🇳🇱23%🇧🇷23%🇦🇷23%+15 more - Active Followers
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37K to 132K
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Recent episodes
Mole Rats and War
Jan 21, 2026
45m 14s
Borrowed vision
Jan 7, 2026
31m 30s
Your Brain on Holidays
Dec 24, 2025
35m 24s
Russian Flu aka American Fever
Dec 10, 2025
25m 54s
To Teach and Die for Ukraine: The Story of Yulia Zdanovska
Nov 27, 2025
46m 37s
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| 1/21/26 |  Mole Rats and War | This story is about a creature with a head like a furry shovel, and a body about the size of a sneaker. By rodent standards, the sandy blind mole rat is huge. But it’s special for another reason too. The sandy blind mole rat is found only in a small area of Ukraine, near the front-lines of Russia’s war against its neighbor. And we wouldn’t know of its existence but for the efforts of a small number of zoologists who, over decades of war and repression, risked their lives working to establish the sandy blind mole rat as a distinct species recognized by science.The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.me This episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editor is Ildar Fattakhov. | 45m 14s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 |  Borrowed vision | People who suffer from retinitis pigmentosa lose their vision as the light-sensitive cells in their eyes start to break down. But what if they could be implanted with light-sensitive cells taken from other organisms, such as algae or coral? A few years ago, a French ophthalmologist was nearly laughed out of a scientific conference when he proposed this idea. But he didn’t lose heart, and his hunch led to a very important breakthrough.Link to the video, in which the patient takes a bottle of hand sanitizer out of his pocket: https://youtu.be/J7a6-46M4qkThe Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.me This episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editor is Ildar Fattakhov. | 31m 30s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 |  Your Brain on Holidays | Caution! The holiday season is upon us. Terrible holiday jingles blast out of every speaker and get stuck in your head, there’s so much to do before the end of the year, and then we’ll be stress-eating and washing it all down with alcohol. All that while promising ourselves that we’ll definitely change things in the new year (though we likely won’t). In this special episode, we explore the science of what makes this time of year so…special.Use the internet without restrictions to websites and services — get Paper VPN.Get 10% off any plan with the promo code RATConnect here: https://papervpn.fun/?promocode=RAT&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=pin&utm_campaign=podcast_nakedrat_24.12.2025The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.meThis episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editor is Ildar Fattakhov. | 35m 24s | ||||||
| 12/10/25 |  Russian Flu aka American Fever | In the late 19th century, a deadly illness spread across Asia and into Europe, infecting millions, and prompting what may have been the world’s first “infodemic” — with news (and rumors) about the infection traveling in realtime, via telegram. A teenaged Winston Churchill even wrote a poem about it. Sometimes called “Russian flu” or “American fever” the illness rarely affected children, but caused adults to lose their sense of taste and smell. Is it just possible that “Russian flu” was a coronavirus? The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.meThis episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editor is Ildar Fattakhov. | 25m 54s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 |  To Teach and Die for Ukraine: The Story of Yulia Zdanovska | Ukraine is a country that produces a lot of talented math and programming students, and Yuliya Zdanovska was among the most promising. But it was the choices she made about how to live her life that really set her apart. After graduating university, Yuliya dedicated herself to teaching ordinary students at a rural school. Then, when Russia invaded Ukraine, she went to Kharkiv, close to the front-lines, to defend her hometown. That is where she died in 2022.The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications.Contact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.meThis episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko and Ilya Marritz. | 46m 37s | ||||||
| 11/12/25 |  The Neanderthals’ Last Gift | The world is quickly running out of effective antibiotics to treat fast-evolving bacteria. Even routine dental work or knee replacements could soon result in many more deadly infections because of drug resistance. Recently, scientists have identified a promising new source of antibiotics: the genetic remains of our extinct hominid cousins. The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.meThis episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editors are Alexei Vorobyov and Ildar Fattakhov. | 21m 46s | ||||||
| 10/29/25 |  The Friendliest and the Most Ruthless Species on the Planet | There are few noises as guaranteed to chill the blood as that of a group of chimpanzees attacking another group of chimps. Wild chimps are notoriously savage. But they are also our closest relatives. And their behaviour can tell us a lot about our own nature. But while humans can be skilled killers, aggression is in fact rare among homo sapiens. So why is that? One answer to the question may be that we homo sapiens are in fact a domesticated species. The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.meThis episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editor is Ildar Fattakhov. | 51m 23s | ||||||
| 10/15/25 |  How Feminism Helps to Understand Elephants | Humans have been fascinated by elephants since forever. But until a few decades ago, we didn’t know the most basic things about them, like how they choose a mate, or how their society is organized. In this episode, Ilya meets Cynthia Moss, a former magazine journalist who has contributed more than anyone else to our knowledge of the largest land mammals.The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.meThis episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editors are Ildar Fattakhov and Alexei Vorobyov. | 36m 05s | ||||||
| 10/1/25 |  What is menstruation for? | Strangely enough, we don’t quite know. Only a few mammals regularly shed their entire uterine lining. According to one hypothesis, menstruation evolved as a defence against an invasion by paternal genes. Host Ilya Kolmanovsky talks to evolutionary biologists David Haig and Deena Emera about how mother and fetus are made to compete for resources in pregnancy. The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ This episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva, Kirill Sychev and Lika Kremer. Our sound editor is Alexei Vorobyov.Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.me | 30m 57s | ||||||
| 9/17/25 |  The Leakey Family and the Human Family | For decades, scientists believed that humans gradually evolved — more or less in a straight line — from knuckle-walking apes to upright-walking, sneaker-wearing humans. But it turns out the story is not so simple. In East Africa, researchers are discovering the fossilized bones of our ancient relatives, and revising their ideas about where humans come from.The Naked Mole Rat is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ This episode was produced by Andrey Borzenko, Ilya Marritz, Danil Astapov, Anastasia Medvedeva and Lika Kremer. Our sound editors are Ildar Fattakhov and Alexei Vorobyov Follow us and tap the bell for episode notificationsContact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.me | 30m 34s | ||||||
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| 9/9/25 |  The Naked Mole Rat: Trailer | The Naked Mole Rat is where scientist-turned-storyteller Ilya Kolmanovsky explores what bizarre creatures and real scientists can teach us about ourselves. Once he studied animal evolution, now he tells stories about human nature, evolution, and the people behind discoveries. THE NAKED MOLE RAT reveals the unexpected connections between science and our lives.This is a podcast by Libo/Libo. Visit our website: https://libolibo.me/ Contact us: nakedmolerat@libolibo.me | 1m 20s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
19 placements across 18 markets.
Chart Positions
19 placements across 18 markets.