Probing Where the Sun Does Shine: A Holiday S...

In an episode we first ran back in 2019, we explore how a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a phrase that has hounded journalists and lawyers for 40 years and embodies the tension between the public’s desire for transparency and th ...  Show more

Lauren Brown gets goosebumps. A lot. Sometimes several times a day. When her partner, writer Carmen Maria Machado, noticed it...she couldn't stop thinking about it. Why does she get them in so many different situations? What’s happening in her body and what does it mean? We take ...  Show more

Holiday joy, sunshine and pain. Safe spaces and getting deep with loved ones   This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum share personal stories from the holidays, a time of year that can be full of joy and strife.   And we’ll replay a couple of our favorite phi ...  Show more

Sometimes, misunderstandings can spark beautiful adventures. This week on Planetary Radio, we explore the story behind the naming of Zoozve, a quasi-moon of Venus, with Latif Nasser, co-host of Radiolab. He shares how a typo on a space poster led the Radiolab team on an epic q ...

Have you ever wondered how things in space get their names? Us, too! In this week’s episode, Molly and co-host Cassie hear the story of a funky little moon with a very strange name. It all started when Radiolab co-host Latif Nasser noticed something unusual on his son’s map of th ...  Show more

Tis the season! This episode explores what rate and time it would take Santa to travel to the other planets in the solar system!