Do you know about trees? 🌲

In this episode we are going to try and answer the following question: How do rockets work—what makes them powerful enough to escape Earth's gravity and travel to space? Did you know that all our topics are submitted by you our listeners? Grown-ups: we value your feedback. Our em ...  Show more

In this episode, we're starting something new: a series of topics called Making & Creating, where we explore how people make things—from raw materials all the way to the finished products you see, use, and sometimes taste every day. In this episode, we are going to try and answer ...  Show more

Why do some trees go dormant? You’ll discover the answer for yourself in this interactive episode, with the help of tree scientist Nalini Nadkarni! Nalini has loved trees since she was little, and dreamed of inventing a special tree microphone to ask them questions. But she found ...  Show more

We love listener mail! You've sent us some amazing notes. Some made us laugh, some made us cry, and some made us say—hey, that’s a great question! We should answer it. So that’s what we did. This week, we dig into some of your questions about trees. What’s up with that tree-plant ...  Show more

We pretend to whistle with an acorn cap today, bring our hands near our mouth. Feel free to skip this one and/or make sure everyone has washed their hands right before listening.

Did you know that trees talk to each other? They do! Mother trees can send food to ...

For much of history, tree canopies were pretty much completely ignored by science. It was as if researchers said collectively, "It's just going to be empty up there, and we've got our hands full studying the trees down here! So why bother?!"

But then, around the mid-198 ...