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PNAS Science Sessions

PNAS

Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.

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430 episodes

  1. Reconstructing a Jurassic soundscape 10:35
  2. Countervailing viper venoms 9:47
  3. Detecting blue whales using fiber optic cables 9:56
  4. Environmental hazards near schools 10:46
  5. Getting to the root of the rhizosphere 6:10
  6. Economic toll of declining MMR vaccination 10:39
  7. Geochemical record of subduction 10:35
  8. Origins of bread wheat 9:54
  9. Using AI to predict the weather 13:40
  10. Brain function after cryopreservation 10:33
  11. Paleoecology of Doggerland 10:39
  12. AI in scholarly publishing 10:37
  13. Genomic history of the Golden Horde 10:21
  14. Concrete and carbon uptake 10:46
  15. Reconstructing extinct species' sense of smell 10:43
  16. The hidden costs of AI 9:53
  17. How mosquitoes time their bites 9:53
  18. Impact of flu vaccines on hospital burden 10:17
  19. Secrets of Earth's climate in six-million-year-old ice 9:39
  20. China, ascendent 10:21
  21. Genetic history of dog domestication 15:23
  22. Air pollution and pet health 9:40
  23. Probing the die-off of Pacific oysters 10:09
  24. Swamp lights and bat sight 10:26
  25. Enzyme linked with brain evolution 10:42
  26. Where primates evolved 10:48
  27. How climate change alters lake oxygen levels 10:06
  28. Unpacking the unreturnable squash nick shot 10:07
  29. North America's oldest pterosaur fossil 10:40
  30. Exploring the origins of a glacial relict seal 10:39
  31. Conservation of the Eastern Black Rhinoceros 10:48
  32. Rescuing the northern white rhino 10:50
  33. Water and the possibility of life on Mars 15:07
  34. Machine learning and climate risk adaptation 10:41
  35. Parsing the Knowledge of London cabbies 11:42
  36. Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior 12:45
  37. Modeling extreme heat waves 10:35
  38. Estimating the social cost of carbon 9:39
  39. How hula hoops stay aloft 9:03
  40. Climate effects and shifting Arctic coastlines 10:56
  41. Movies, neurons, and AI 10:39
  42. Sustainability of plant-based meat alternatives 14:53
  43. Plumeworld ocean and snowball Earth 10:25
  44. The curious case of the comb jelly 10:28
  45. Air pollution and economic mobility 10:36
  46. Long-term impact of wildfire smoke pollution 10:32
  47. Indigenous communities and subsistence whale hunting 10:30
  48. Perceiving musical boundaries 10:06
  49. How python hearts grow and shrink 8:46
  50. Neighborhood travel and racial segregation 10:48