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The Show About Science
Created by Nate when he was 5 years-old, The Show About Science is an awesome adventure into the wondrous world of scientific research and discovery! Over the last 9 years, Nate has filled each episode with fascinating information from scientists and educators from around the globe. Together, Nate a...
Recent Episodes
124 episodes
The Refugee Seeds
Seeds hold history. They carry the genetic blueprints of the past and the key to our future. But when disaster strikes, how far will scientists go to...
STEM Flights with Dragan Lazić and Carley Walker
What is it like to fly a plane while attempting to make a podcast from 2,000 feet in the air? And can we pull this off?
In this episode of The S...
The Great Cicada Symphony with Jorin Graham
It's the hottest day of the year, and deep underground, a mysterious countdown has finally hit zero. After years of silence, millions of cicadas are e...
The Anachronisms in our Backyards with David Zaya
In this episode of The Show About Science, Nate unearths the surprising history of the Kentucky Coffee Trees growing in his backyard and quickly becom...
Bacteriophages with Ben Chan
Bacteriophages, also known as ‘phages,’ are the most common lifeform on the planet. They are constantly hunting for bacteria to infect and kill. What...
Urban Water Chemistry with Stephen MacAvoy and Melissa Pierce
In this episode of The Show About Science, Nate heads to the banks of the Chicago River to meet up with Melissa Pierce, PhD, the Technical Program Dir...
A City on Mars with Zach Weinersmith
What it would really entail to conquer the relentless Martian elements, engineer a thriving, self-reliant biosphere, and craft life-preserving abodes...
The Twenty-One with Elizabeth Rusch
What happens when 21 kids sue the U.S. government for a dream of a world without climate change? On this episode of The Show About Science, Nate inter...
The Puzzling Platypus with Frank Grützner
The platypus is a fascinating animal that has perplexed generations of scientists. Now researchers are studying the platypus on the molecular level, a...
Our Extreme Universe with Kimberly Arcand
Dr. Kimberly Arcand is a Visualization and Emerging Technology Scientist at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard,...
The Science of Sound with Kimberly Arcand, Martin Gruebele, Carla Scaletti, and Mark Temple
Can sound help us understand the complex patterns in our universe? This question leads Nate to Symbolic Sound in Champaign, Illinois, where composer C...
Big Tree with Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick is an illustrator and author best known for his books The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck, and The Marvels and Kaleidoscope. Bri...
Accelerating Science to Eradicate Disease with Priscilla Chan and Stephen Quake
The CZ Biohub’s inspiring story began when Priscilla Chan asked Stephen Quake a seemingly impossible question: “Is it possible to cure, prevent, and m...
The Tiny Zebrafish Hotel with Merlin Lange, Loïc Royer, and Shruthi VijayKumar
On the third installment of our CZ Biohub series, we visit a lab nicknamed "Le Petit Hotel de Poisson" (The Tiny Fish Hotel) where scientists are usin...
Mapping the Cell with Manuel Leonetti
This is the second episode of our four part series focused on the CZ Biohub in San Francisco where scientists are working to cure, prevent, or manage...
Bioengineering Malaria with Paul Lebel
Over the next 4 episodes, we're going to take you on a tour of the CZ Biohub in San Francisco where scientists are working to cure, prevent, or manage...
Santa Science and the Physics of Christmas (Rerun)
We're revisiting one of our favorite episodes of The Show About Science from 2015. Back when Nate was 5 years old, he interviewed Santa Claus about th...
Two Degrees with Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz is the New York Times bestselling author of 18 novels for young readers, including Ground Zero, Refugee, Allies, Grenade, Prisoner B-3087,...
The Art of DALL-E 2 with Mark Chen
DALL-E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from written text descriptions. Mark Chen is a research scientist at OpenAI, the...
The Physics of Baseball with Alan Nathan
Alan Nathan has been a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois since 1977, but for the past 10 years, he has expanded his...
The Kings of Pain with Adam Thorn and Rob Alleva
The History Channel show, “Kings of Pain,” follows wildlife biologist Adam Thorn and professional animal handler Rob “Caveman” Alleva as they get bitt...
Proteins and Proteomics with Neil Kelleher
Proteins are one of the main drivers of human diseases. Scientists are now mapping all of the proteins in the human body in a similar way to how the H...
The Tale of Tails with Bo Xia
Why don't I have a tail? That's the question that Bo Xia asked himself when he was a little kid. Bo is now a PhD candidate at NYU Grossman School of M...
The Fungi Hunt with Ellen Holste
Hidden ten miles south of Hastings, Michigan and only accessible via an old gravel road is the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, a nature center and biolo...
Time Travel with Paul Davies
Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist at Arizona State University where he leads the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. His research...
The Search in the Stars with Wael Farah
Wael Farah is a research scientist at the SETI Institute, where he searches the stars for alien life. The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), where Wael cond...
How Dogs Think with Gregory Berns
What do our dogs think about all day? Do dogs experience emotions like people do? Gregory Berns is a bestselling author and a professor at Emory Unive...
Firebeetles with Sara Lewis
In some parts of the world they're known as fireflies. In other parts, they're called lightning bugs. On this episode of The Show About Science, Sara...
The Serendipitous Zebrafish Discovery with Keith Cheng and Máté Varga
A scientist from Budapest who immigrated to the US in the 1930s. A beloved and common pet store fish. And a researcher looking at genes that suppress...
Supernovas with Sarafina Nance
Sarafina Nance is an American astrophysicist and science communicator who is a PhD student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Califor...
Transmissions From the Quarantine: Remote Learning
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Cockroaches with Dominic Evangelista
Dominic Evangelista is an evolutionary biologist who studies how biodiversity originates through evolutionary processes. And what creature on this pla...
Ick! with Melissa Stewart
Okay kids, prepare your parents for a totally gross and super awesome interview! On this episode of The Show About Science, author Melissa Stewart tak...
Lemurs with Anne Yoder
Anne Yoder is a biologist, researcher, and professor at Duke University. When Anne was in college, a serendipitous visit to the Duke Lemur Center insp...
Planetary Geology with Bethany Ehlmann
Bethany Ehlmann is a professor of planetary science at CalTech and a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She joins Nate on this ep...
Transmissions From The Quarantine: What Day Is It?
New transmissions!
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Transmissions From The Quarantine: Day 8
New transmissions on this episode from Kelton, Sharon, and Liv.
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Transmissions From The Quarantine: Day 5
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Transmissions From The Quarantine: Day 2
We have transmissions from Hannah and Antonio in Italy (which has been on lockdown for a week) and Arlo in Virginia.
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Transmissions From The Quarantine: Day 1
School has been shut down. People are working from home. Now more than ever, we need to stay connected. What are you doing to keep busy? How are you f...