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Unexplainable
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Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know…and then keeps on going. The Unexplainable team — Noam Hassenfeld, Julia Longoria, Byrd Pinkerton, and Meradith Hoddinott — tackles scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and everything we learn diving into the unknown. New episodes Mondays and…
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66%A trip to the twilight reefs
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76%The hidden world that birds see
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65%The Godzilla El Niño
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70%An argument for the sun
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82%What the Odyssey is hiding
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79%Dinosaur mysteries with Riley Black
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73%When doctors don't know what's wrong
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70%Are you a lyric person or a music person?
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63%Big news!
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75%Are we all living in an enormous black hole?
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68%Risky business
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73%A period piece
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74%Bird people and deep space shrapnel
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76%Should we really kill all the lanternflies?
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67%Sean tries raw milk
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65%A new species in New York
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70%The disaster problem
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81%The lost Lyme vaccine
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72%The cells we share
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71%The man who bet against humanity — and lost
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76%The aftermath
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68%A better Black Death story
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72%The hunt for a lost species
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78%Dark matter music
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80%I glow, therefore I am
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69%Is everything inflammation?
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74%A show about nothing
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70%The Hitchhiking Microbe’s Guide to the Galaxy
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81%Why did we go back to the moon?
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66%Is male birth control finally here?
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64%Mi Vickicito
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68%Casey gets his voice back
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63%Oliver Sacks's not quite nonfiction
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66%The accidental rise of Botox
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63%Who are we to fight the alchemy?
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70%Snow day!
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79%My brain made me do it
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62%The Codfather
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74%Stress ages us on a cellular level
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71%The Amazing Extremophiles
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78%Everyone does it. Why can’t I?
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67%Mysterious objects near the beginning of time
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61%Cloud atlas
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76%What's good sound?
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70%No data, just vibes
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75%It's not all bad
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70%Superbabies?
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75%The G-word
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65%Who's afraid of big, bad Yellowstone?
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78%Vitamin C and the common cold
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82%Your moments of silence (The Sound Barrier #5)
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65%Diary of a teenage brain, part 2
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73%Diary of a teenage brain
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69%The trees of death
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65%That's no moon...
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63%Lost on the road to enlightenment
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65%Is animal grief real?
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63%The Sound Barrier #4: Listen to the universe
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74%The Sound Barrier #3: What does silence sound like?
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83%The Sound Barrier #2: The noise that isn't there
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65%The Sound Barrier #1: The myth of hearing
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67%Solve me a river
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74%This episode is haunted and spooky
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74%Consider the shrimp
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59%When talent vanishes overnight
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69%Composing chaos
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77%Does Tylenol cause autism?
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71%Real-life zombies
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65%How to change your personality
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81%What’s A
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74%Did we find signs of life on Mars?
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82%The metabolism myth
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69%The Vagina Voyages
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67%A rabbi and the Lorax walk into a bar...
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74%Is a little alcohol bad for you?
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70%Ice Sheet Time Machine
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79%Animals in the year 20202025
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69%Nightmare at the end of the universe
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74%Life in plastic — not fantastic?
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76%When waves go rogue
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67%Good news for people who love bad news
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80%12 tiny worlds
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78%How good was Michael Jordan, really?
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83%One weird trick to get unlimited clean energy
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79%Who taught beavers to build dams?
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61%The disease we let win
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65%Science! Tell me what to eat!
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78%A magical world at the ocean’s edge
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75%Ruff translation
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63%Sick of “morning” sickness
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74%Your bug roommates
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63%Why I left the NIH
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74%Mostly dead is slightly alive
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65%We don't understand yogurt
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79%The musical structure of the universe
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75%How to beat roulette
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63%Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?
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66%Are we sure about fluoride?
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74%The man who walked butterflies on a leash
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62%Imagine a sunset, now imagine you can't
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74%An imaginary planet that feels extremely real
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71%The view from inside a volcano
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68%Who are you calling a Neanderthal?
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68%Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
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61%Blood farm
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66%Moon genes
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66%How to stop your hiccups
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67%Intraterrestrials
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80%How to talk to aliens
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75%Good Robot #4: Who, me?
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74%Good Robot #3: Let’s fix everything
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75%Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome
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79%Good Robot #1: The magic intelligence in the sky
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65%A strange signal from space
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83%Getting malaria on purpose
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69%The problem with dreams
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74%Is science in danger?
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74%How umami blew up taste
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65%What’s hiding under the Antarctic ice?
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60%Biopiracy
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71%Will AI ever ... feel?
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65%New year, new diet, live forever?
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70%Mysteries we can’t stop thinking about
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76%Who let the wolves in?
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69%Where to meet a Neanderthal
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68%Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain
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64%Why are there lefties and righties?
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68%Placebos work. Why?
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68%Why is horror so fun?
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66%Are psychedelics breaking science?
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72%Your gut’s feelings
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76%Is insurance doomed?
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76%My animal heart
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77%How hot could the world get?
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66%Should you be eating poison oak?
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73%Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history
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78%You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?
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74%Viral dark matter
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69%The good virus
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73%Ecstasy therapy
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79%What did dinosaurs sound like?
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76%Do we live inside an enormous black hole?
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67%Is good posture actually good?
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75%Why do we yawn?
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76%Embracing economic chaos
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73%We still don’t really know how inflation works
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77%Can you put a price on nature?
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74%The deepest spot in the ocean
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65%What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
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76%Did trees kill the world?
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75%Can we stop aging?
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73%Who's the daddy? There isn't one.
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77%Itch hunt
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69%How did Earth get its water?
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73%Is Earth alive?
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70%The alpha myth
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80%The eclipse chasers
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76%The Yips
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70%The bleeding edge, part two
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67%The bleeding edge
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70%Aliens from Earth?
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65%How scientists are searching for aliens
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72%A universal virus-killer?
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74%Why do we cry?
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68%Should you quit Diet Coke?
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77%The case for cursing
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76%The math problem that could break the internet
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66%Garbage patch kids
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64%A stethoscope for the rainforest
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79%Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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69%Something weird near the beginning of time
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72%The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?
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59%Weaponizing uncertainty
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76%Can we live in space?
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73%The ice cream effect
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75%The data vigilantes
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78%Trouble on Pickles Reef
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73%Redefining death
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66%The Orcanizing
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70%Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac
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61%Rogue waves
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83%Does garlic break magnets?
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80%How to decode a thought
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75%It’s getting harder to see
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78%Jumping the gun
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83%Can we talk to animals?
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74%Unexplainable or Not: Beach day!
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76%Who let the wolves in?
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69%Why do we have a moon?
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62%The Black Box: In AI we trust?
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81%The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it
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79%Do animals grieve?
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75%Why do we dream?
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76%Cracking the Indus code
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78%Awestruck
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71%Expecting: Weed and pregnancy
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73%Expecting: Baby brain
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60%Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs
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66%The tornado problem
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70%How to resurrect a mammoth
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65%Live show, dead dinosaurs
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71%Talking trees
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67%Your questions, unexplained
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71%What's so funny?
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76%Origins: The meaning of “life”
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67%Origins: The first living thing
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67%Origins: How did Earth get its water?
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70%What is love?
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60%Why we hiccup
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64%We booped an asteroid
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78%Your creepy, crawly roommates
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71%Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
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67%Plants with eyes?
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73%Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates
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82%Your gut's feelings
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61%Nuclear fusion breaks through
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75%Basic instinct
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61%Why we cry
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72%Can we live in space?
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82%Holding on to power
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71%Redefining death
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75%Talking to ghosts
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67%Why is everyone getting food allergies?
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66%Introducing The Gray Area
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68%Let’s play Unexplainable or Not
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77%The math problem that could break the internet
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66%Jumping the gun
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67%An Alzheimer's uproar
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72%Salamander search party
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71%What did dinosaurs sound like?
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71%Can ovaries make new eggs?
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76%Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex?
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71%Yawn baby yawn
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62%What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?
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71%Vitamin X
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74%Lost Worlds: What killed Venus?
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67%Lost Worlds: Life on Mars?
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70%Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon?
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77%Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth?
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77%Dropping like flies
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62%Is telepathy real?
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68%Why do we dream?
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72%Should I take a DNA ancestry test?
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73%My octopus friend?
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70%Glow in the dark ocean
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82%When reality broke
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72%Making Sense: The sixth sense
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74%Making Sense: Sight unseen
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75%Making Sense: The Umami Mama
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79%Making Sense: No one nose
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64%Making Sense: The healing power of touch
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69%Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing
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68%The methane hunters
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68%What is love?
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80%A sonic tour of the solar system
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65%Finding asteroids before they find us
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73%Skeleton Lake
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64%Are humans running out of sperm?
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71%The quest to build a star
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64%BONUS: The 2021 song
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60%The building blocks of the universe
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80%99% of ocean plastic is missing
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74%How medicine mansplained women’s health
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73%How Venus went to hell
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67%Mind readers
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72%A brainless yellow goo that does math
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73%Why whales get beached
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75%Talking to ghosts
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75%Honey, we shrunk the birds
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70%Nobel Prize 2.0
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80%The James Webb Time Machine
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75%The James Webb Space Telescope
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73%What causes Alzheimer’s?
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66%Havana syndrome
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64%Getting to the bottom of butts
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73%The mysteries of endometriosis
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71%A 150-year-old human
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65%How low can you go?
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77%The tornado problem
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75%Moon poop
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72%Hot pink flying squirrels
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78%Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
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71%How do animals know where to go?
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67%Invasion of the jumping worms
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74%The many heights of Mount Everest
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77%Unexplainable Flying Objects
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69%The hunt for a new Pluto
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65%Cloudy with a chance of chaos
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70%A new force of nature?
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64%Placebos work. Why?
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67%A virus that could heal people
Unexplainable · 23m
66%The Twilight Zone of the ocean
Unexplainable · 26m
78%The viral ghosts of long Covid
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80%Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong?
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62%It’s ball lightning!
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75%Skeleton Lake
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73%Journey Toward the Center of the Earth
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67%No one nose
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71%Most of the universe is missing
Unexplainable · 33m
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