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