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Knowable

Knowable


Knowable

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Length:
15 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

 What are the limits to what’s knowable — and how does our thinking about big questions in science and technology evolve over time? The Knowable Magazine podcast explores puzzles as diverse as the existence of black holes and how to build an artificial heart — with plenty of surprises along the way. Hosted by science journalists Adam Levy and Charlotte Stoddart.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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Quantum entanglement’s long journey from ‘spooky’ to law of nature

Quantum mechanics has always included mind-bending ideas. But the concept of quantum en...

26 minutes
Jul 18, 2023

How the placebo effect went mainstream

Sloppy by modern standards — and maybe even those back then — a 1955 article on the pla...

28 minutes
Jun 27, 2023

The fossil that launched a dinosaur revolution

The fossil Archaeopteryx forever changed our understanding of dinosaurs and the origi...

28 minutes
Jun 13, 2023

Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing was done.

A key report to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 warned that humankind was “unwittin...

21 minutes
May 30, 2023

How antidepressants changed ideas about depression

Serendipitous discoveries led to drugs like Prozac and to new insights into the physica...

30 minutes
Apr 26, 2022

How particle accelerators came to be

PODCAST: They started out so small, one could fit on the palm of your hand, but to make...

35 minutes
Mar 29, 2022

The history of climate change offers clues to Earth’s future

Digging — quite literally — into our planet’s past to study its paleoclimate has shed l...

25 minutes
Mar 15, 2022

Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up

The journey to understanding these critically important molecules, in their thousands o...

34 minutes
Mar 01, 2022

The search for exoplanets

Not that long ago, scientists found evidence that our Sun wasn’t unique — other stars h...

24 minutes
Feb 15, 2022

The science of dreams

Freud thought that dreams were the gateway to our unconscious mind. Today, many scienti...

31 minutes
Feb 01, 2022