PODCAST

Scientific American Content: Global

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

All Episodes

Why Scammers Target Seniors—And What You Can Do About It

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/08

Millions of older adults lose their savings to scams every year. There are ways to reduce the risk

en-us

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/08

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and possibly deliver drugs to specific areas of the body

en-us

AI Scans Tongue Color to Predict Diseases

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/08

Inspired by principles from traditional Chinese medicine, researchers used AI to analyze tongue color as a diagnostic tool—with more than 96 percent accuracy

en-us

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Explores Cold War...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/08

Astronaut-turned-author Chris Hadfield discusses his new thriller Final Orbit, which weaves real cold war history, space race geopolitics and firsthand experience into a gripping work of fiction.

en-us

Supreme Court Weighs Colorado’s Ban on Scientifically...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/07

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

en-us

Babies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/07

Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find

en-us

First-of-Its-Kind Kidney Transplant Could Lead to...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/07

A man diagnosed with brain death received a kidney that was modified to be type O, which is compatible with all blood types

en-us

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/07

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

en-us

South Africa’s Coast Is Rising—And Scientists Have a...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/07

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise

en-us

Fired CDC Director Susan Monarez Speaks Out on...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/06

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details

en-us

Stunning Cat Photos Reveal Feline Science

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/06

Tim Flach captures his fascination with the science of cats in stunning photographs from his new book Feline

en-us

Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/06

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

en-us

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus May Harbor Life. Study Finds...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/06

Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows signs of life-supporting chemistry, fungi may have shaped Earth before plants, and repeat COVID infections raise long-term health risks for kids.

en-us

2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/06

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune diseases

en-us

Is Dark Energy Born inside Black Holes?

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/04

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

en-us

Ocean Acidification Threshold Pushes Earth Past...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/03

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

en-us

What is Knot Theory? Solve These Puzzles to Find Out

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/03

Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way

en-us

How Can Galaxies Recede from Us Faster Than the Speed...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/03

When space itself expands, weird things can happen—like galaxies breaking the universe’s ultimate speed limit

en-us

An Anechoic Chamber at Nokia Bell Labs Reveals the...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/03

Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.

en-us

Jane Goodall’s Legacy of Challenging What It Means to...

Scientific American Content: Global ·

2025/10/02

Here are three big ways that Jane Goodall transformed science

en-us

2,705 results