Radiolab podcast

Radiolab

Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

 

#150

Music Hat

With this episode, we’re putting on our music hat. For a program that relies so much on sc... more

29 Aug 2025

31 MINS

31:24

29 Aug 2025


#149

The Medical Matchmaking Machine

As he finished his medical school exam, David Fajgenbaum felt off.  He walked down to the ... more

22 Aug 2025

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:41

22 Aug 2025


#148

Weighing Good Intentions

In an episode first released in 2010, then-producer Lulu Miller drives to Michigan to trac... more

15 Aug 2025

24 MINS

24:09

15 Aug 2025


#147

The Menopause Mystery

Until recently, scientists assumed humans were the only species in which females went thro... more

08 Aug 2025

38 MINS

38:58

08 Aug 2025


#146

Galaxy Quenching

This week: the story of astrophysicist Charity Woodrum. Charity is an extragalactic astron... more

01 Aug 2025

40 MINS

40:08

01 Aug 2025


#145

The Nothing Behind Everything

This week, two conversations from the archives about parts of the world that are impercept... more

25 Jul 2025

32 MINS

32:54

25 Jul 2025


#144

More Perfect: The Hate Debate

Back in 2017 our colleagues at More Perfect gathered a room full of people together to deb... more

18 Jul 2025

37 MINS

37:20

18 Jul 2025


#143

Desperately Seeking Symmetry

This hour of Radiolab, former co-hosts Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balan... more

11 Jul 2025

57 MINS

57:23

11 Jul 2025


#142

On [The Divided Dial]: Fishing In The Night

Have you heard On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial? It’s awesome and yo... more

04 Jul 2025

38 MINS

38:51

04 Jul 2025


#141

Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud

Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Con... more

27 Jun 2025

25 MINS

25:08

27 Jun 2025


#140

Baby Shark

This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Today, the stran... more

20 Jun 2025

28 MINS

28:12

20 Jun 2025


#139

Mystery Bay

This is episode four of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Alison Kock was ... more

19 Jun 2025

21 MINS

21:01

19 Jun 2025


#138

The Shark Inside You

This is episode three of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Today, we take ... more

18 Jun 2025

28 MINS

28:53

18 Jun 2025


#137

The Cage

This is episode two of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Jaws spawned a th... more

17 Jun 2025

18 MINS

18:22

17 Jun 2025


#136

Making a Monster

Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.Rodney Fox went into the o... more

16 Jun 2025

26 MINS

26:38

16 Jun 2025


#135

Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks

In the summer of 1975, Jaws scared an entire generation out of the water. The film burned ... more

13 Jun 2025

02 MINS

02:23

13 Jun 2025


#134

Double-Blasted

We first aired this episode in 2012, but at the show we’ve been thinking a lot about resil... more

13 Jun 2025

20 MINS

20:54

13 Jun 2025


#133

The Elixir of Life

Doctor and special correspondent, Avir Mitra takes Lulu on an epic journey live on stage a... more

06 Jun 2025

50 MINS

50:59

06 Jun 2025


#132

A Flock of Two

Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more t... more

30 May 2025

19 MINS

19:43

30 May 2025


#131

The Echo in the Machine

Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all o... more

23 May 2025

32 MINS

32:42

23 May 2025


#130

How to Cure What Ails You

Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll... more

16 May 2025

25 MINS

25:01

16 May 2025


#129

The First Known Earthly Voice

What happens when a voice emerges? What happens when one is lost? Is something gained? A c... more

09 May 2025

38 MINS

38:07

09 May 2025


#128

Terrestrials: The Snow Beast

Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist [Natalia Rybczyn... more

02 May 2025

31 MINS

31:23

02 May 2025


#127

The Age of Aquaticus

For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73℃/163℉.  At that temperature, eve... more

25 Apr 2025

43 MINS

43:00

25 Apr 2025


#126

Ghosts in the Green Machine

In honor of our Earth, on her day, we have two stories about the overlooked, ignored, and ... more

18 Apr 2025

33 MINS

33:19

18 Apr 2025


#125

Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow

A couple years ago, an entomologist named Martha Weiss got a letter from a little boy in J... more

11 Apr 2025

50 MINS

50:34

11 Apr 2025


#124

Killer Empathy

In an episode first aired in 2012, Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor... more

04 Apr 2025

25 MINS

25:52

04 Apr 2025


#123

Malthusian Swerve

Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we?In this episode, we partn... more

28 Mar 2025

38 MINS

38:58

28 Mar 2025


#122

Everybody's Got One

We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of n... more

21 Mar 2025

28 MINS

28:12

21 Mar 2025


#121

Growth

It’s easy to take growth for granted, for it to seem expected, inevitable even. Every pers... more

14 Mar 2025

58 MINS

58:52

14 Mar 2025