x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

IFLScience - Break It Down

iflsciencebreakitdown

Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…

science news commentary

All Episodes

27:09

Disco Dinosaur, Ancient Wine, And A $17 Billion...

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/06/21

This week on Break It Down, white wine with a hint of human remains becomes the oldest ever discovered, Jupiter’s Red Spot may be younger than the United States, a disco dinosaur has been discovered with one hell of a hat, people volunteer to be infected with COVID-19 – for science, NASA uses its first two-way end-to-end relay system to send pet photos to the ISS, and a $17 billion shipwreck has launched an international argument.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Oldest wine:

en

34:39

Corpse Flowers, Grolar Bears, And “Alien Signals”...

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/06/14

This week on Break It Down, elephants have names, the ISS just scared the bejesus out of everybody, how to Benjamin Button yourself in space, grolar bears remain extremely rare, “alien signal” from Mars finally gets decoded, and why London’s Kew Gardens are about to reek of corpses.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Elephant names: https://www.iflscience.com/african-elephants-call-each-other-by-names-just-like-humans-do-74595 ISS audio whoopsie:

en

27:30

Shingray Update, Seahenge, And The Longesssst Rock Art

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/06/07

This week on Break It Down, Charlotte the stingray is back and it’s not good news, a zig-zagging snake stretching over 40 meters might be the world’s longest rock art, the irony of offering endangered orangutans as a form of diplomatic gift, the mysterious aurora STEVE gets a long-lost twin, why Seahenge was built, and how the iconic “March of Progress” evolution image is actually all wrong.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Stingray:

en

31:37

Colossal Squid, A Titanic Trip, And Debunking Star Signs

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/05/31

This week on Break It Down, a mystery sighting in the deep ocean could be the first-ever footage of a colossal squid baby, orca attacks are more mischief than vengeance, astrology is debunked yet again, a second billionaire plans a trip to the Titanic, the world's largest genome comes in a surprisingly small package, and we explore the differences between human and chimp DNA. Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Mystery Squid:

en

30:52

Sexy Neanderthals, Head Transplants, And Dark Extinction

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/05/24

This week on Break It Down, we now know when humans and Neanderthals hooked up, could a human head transplant ever be realistic, a dino fossil skin preserved like glass has both scales and feathers, sometimes stars completely vanish, a skull from China tells us more about the Dragon Man, and we delve into the concept of dark extinctions.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Humans and Neanderthals:

en

31:26

Hot Dinosaurs, Alien Megastructures, And Reaching...

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/05/17

This week on Break It Down, COVID’s new FLiRT variants, when and which dinosaurs went warm-blooded, could a lost river explain the pyramids, the search for alien megastructures, the shrinking Y chromosome, and what’s it like sailing to Point Nemo? Really hard, apparently. Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: FLiRT: https://www.iflscience.com/whats-going-on-with-the-new-covid-flirt-variants-74245 Hot dinosaurs:

en

28:49

Talking Whales, Dinosauroids, and Psychedelic Milk...

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/05/10

This week in Break It Down, scientists discover the “sperm whale phonetic alphabet”, AstraZeneca pull their COVID vaccine from the shelves, why a weak magnetic field might be a good thing for life on Earth, rock art reveals that the Sahara looked a little different 4,000 years ago, toads might be helping treat depression, and what on Earth is a dinosauroid?! Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Whale alphabet:

en

39:44

Alpaca Sex, Brainy T. Rex, And Could Earth Have Rings?

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/05/03

This week in Break It Down, the debate on T. rex intelligence rages on, a world-first video shows an orangutan applying leaves as medicine, the most complete Neanderthal gets a face, why alpaca sex is so weird that no other mammal does it like them (that we know of), the mystery of a giant hole in Antarctic ice solved, and could Earth ever get its own rings?Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Brainy T. rex:

en

28:42

Gassy Uranus, Giant Megaraptors, And The Pharaoh's Curse

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/04/26

This week in Break It Down, we explore why Uranus might contain more methane than we thought, just what is happening to bacteria on the ISS, quite how long animals have been making their own light for, why carvings on a bear bone are culturally important, giant megaraptor footprints in China, and whether anything spooky might happen if you dare to enter the Pharaoh's tomb.Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Methane on Uranus:

en

32:02

Tiny Titanosaurs, Giant Snakes, And Transatlantic...

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/04/19

This week in Break It Down, a new species of tiny titanosaur is compared to a cow, a 47-million-year-old snake becomes the largest ever, an RNA breakthrough brings us closer to "universal vaccines", a heart flies 7,000 kilometers to its recipient, we question Stonehenge's relationship to the Moon, and why the philosophy of science matters in the modern day.Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Tiny titanosaur:

en

30:55

More Whale Sex, Pet Foxes, And The B.O.A.T

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/04/12

This week in Break It Down, 12-million-year-old snails reveal the oldest preserved fossil pigments, the violent mating dance of blue whales is caught on camera, scientists investigate the source of space’s brightest-ever explosion, foxes may have been the OG domestic canid, when is the North Star not the North Star, and what the hell even is a “henge”?Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Old snails:

en

36:50

Space Rainbows, Ancient Animal Art, And Heart-Eyed Toads

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/04/05

This week in Break It Down, a rainbow-like glory is detected beyond our Solar System, a sand-slab stingray may be the oldest animal art, ancient etchings in Peru may depict psychedelic music, scientists complete the world’s largest digital camera, and a toad with heart-shaped pupils. Plus, how far can a bird fly without flapping? Turns out, pretty damn far.Sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Glory in space:

en

35:02

Black Holes, Barbie Pigs, And The Apocaclipse

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/03/28

This week in Break It Down, why the solar eclipse can be fatal, Barbie pigs 5,000 meters below the sea, world-first cooperative mimicry in two spiders pretending to be a flower, the first image of magnetic fields around black hole Sagittarius A*, why climate change might be about to change the time, and are men really more likely to be psychopaths than women? The science appears to suggest otherwise.So sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Apocaclipse:

en

30:52

Scandalous Pyramids, Quantum Tornadoes, And The...

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/03/22

This week in Break It Down, a hill becomes a pyramid and then a hill again, quantum tornadoes teach us about black holes, a living human gets a pig kidney for the first time, Homer’s Iliad helps us find shipwrecks, the world’s rarest fish makes a comeback – one ridiculous baby at a time – and we find out about the longest eclipses on, and off, record.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: It’s a pyramid:

en

33:17

Superb Nova, Space Crime, And Eclipse Tortoises

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/03/15

This week in Break It Down, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a nova, astroforensic science, why everybody thinks male mammals are so big, the world’s oldest body piercings, 70 years in an iron lung, and the strange things animals do during a total solar eclipse. We’re looking at you, Galápagos tortoises. Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Nova: https://www.iflscience.com/this-year-could-be-a-once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-to-see-a-nova-73379 Space crime:

en

32:47

De-Extincting Mammoths, The Oldest Fossil Forest, And...

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/03/08

This week in Break It Down, we talk de-extincting the mammoth, the world’s oldest fossil forest, elephant burials, hypervaccination (and by hyper, we mean 217 COVID vaccinations in 29 months), a small Pacific nation that spans all four hemispheres, and a contentious question on geologists’ lips: are we in the Anthropocene? Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: From elephants to mammoths:

en

30:17

Whale Sex, Smashing Asteroids, And More (Giant) Whales

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/03/01

This week in Break It Down, the first-ever photographs of humpbacks humping involves two males, NASA changes the shape of an asteroid, a tiny fish makes a big din, some very old megaliths in Peru, the heaviest animal on the planet, and the bizarre story of one of the biggest astrophysical discoveries in recent times. Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down… Links: Queer nature: https://youtu.be/RXE11Ia70GQ Male whales:

en

32:36

Giant Anacondas, Small Stars, And Lab-Grown Testicles

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/02/23

This week in Break It Down, we discuss how a Will Smith series led to the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda, plus the smallest star ever discovered, lab-grown testicles, an electric vehicle breakthrough, sophisticated Neanderthal glue, and how to destroy a dinner party by dropping the question: is math discovered or invented? Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down… Links: New species of giant anaconda:

en

33:32

Shingrays, Space Lasers, And Pink Fairy Armadillos

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/02/16

This week in Break It Down, we discuss whether or not an aquarium in the US is about to become home to the world’s first “shingray,” how scientists are sending messages and power from space, a groundbreaking cancer breakthrough, fossil forgeries, and what on Earth a pink fairy armadillo is. Sit back, relax, and let’s break it down… Links Shingray: https://www.iflscience.com/shark-ray-hybrid-aquarium-suggests-shark-may-have-impregnated-their-lone-stingray-72919 Space lasers and radio messages:

en

02:29

Break It Down Trailer

IFLScience - Break It Down ·

2024/02/14

A little teaser for our upcoming podcast, Break It Down.

en

80 results

Similar Podcasts

Classic Radio Science Fiction

solgoodmedia.com

Mission to Mars

Inception Point Ai

The 365 Days of Astronomy

365DaysOfAstronomy.org

Creek Devil

william Jevning

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter