Glow in the dark ocean

Scientists are trying to figure out what makes something funny. We compare notes with comedians ⁠Atsuko Okatsuka⁠, ⁠Josh Johnson⁠, ⁠Dulcé Sloan⁠, and ⁠Chris Fleming⁠ (Originally published in 2023) Guests: ⁠Allie Volpe⁠, Vox correspondent; ⁠Peter McGraw⁠, professor at University o ...  Show more

Socrates, Aristotle, Galileo, and Darwin couldn't figure it out. But one scientist has built a tickle robot (named Hektor) to try and settle the mystery of ticklishness once and for all. Guest: Konstantina Kilteni, principal investigator of the Touch & Tickle Lab at the Donders I ...  Show more

Science has a handle on fireflies and glowworms, but most bioluminescent animals live in the ocean and are tough to study. Today, researchers are still figuring out why some animals produce light. Dive with Josh and Chuck into this illuminating topic.

A call to oceanographer Edie Widder about a fish with a very odd immune system quickly becomes something else: a dive into the deep sea, into a world of brilliant light. But down there, the light doesn’t behave like light -- it sparkles and glows, but also drips, squirts, and ...

Lots of creatures are able to glow, like fish, mushrooms, fireflies and even some bacteria! This special ability is called bioluminescence and it looks like magic, but it’s actually chemistry. In this episode, we’ll travel to the bottom of the ocean in the ExPLORERR to meet some ...  Show more