This Year's Top Science Stories, Wrapped

For residents of Prek Touch, Cambodia — right on the banks of the Mekong River — flooding is a regular part of life. But as those floods worsen due to climate change, it’s getting harder to adapt. Along with other flood-prone regions throughout Southeast Asia, government official ...  Show more

Do you avoid small talk in the office, or with your neighbor in the elevator? If so, you might want to give it a chance. According to a study just published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, even when participants were primed that a conversation would be boring ...  Show more

In this episode, we explore some of the latest developments in astronomy and space news: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from deep space continue to mystify astronomers with their sudden bursts of energy. Last year's Tongan volcanic explosion was confirmed to be the largest natural expl ...  Show more

In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2023. We'll hear about vaccines, multiple Moon missions and new therapeutics, to name but a few.News: the science events to look out for in 2023Subscribe to Nature Briefing, ...  Show more

Welcome to a sampler edition of our new Astronomy & Space Science News podcast, Astronomy Daily - the Podcast.
Hosted by Andrew Dunkley (one half of the Space Nuts podcast) and his feisty AI Assistant/Newsreader Hailley.

Each day Andrew and Hailley bring you a ro ...  Show more

The Space News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 151
*Discovery of a record setting brown dwarf Astronomers have discovered what might be the smallest Brown Dwarf ever seen – just three or four times the mass of Jupiter.
*How gas-rich bab ...  Show more