Radiolab

Radiolab is one of the most beloved podcasts and public radio shows in the world. The show is known for its deep-dive journalism and innovative sound design. Created in 2002 by host Jad Abumrad, the program began as an exploration of scientific inquiry. Over the years it has evolved to become a platform for long-form journalism and storytelling. Radiolab is co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

Making a Monster

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

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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 an idea into...

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Double-Blasted

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

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The Elixir of Life

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

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A Flock of Two

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

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The Echo in the Machine

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

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How to Cure What Ails You

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

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The First Known Earthly Voice

What happens when a voice emerges? What happens when one is lost? Is something gained? A couple months...

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Terrestrials: The Snow Beast

Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a...

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The Age of Aquaticus

For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73?/163?.  At that temperature, everything boiled...

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Ghosts in the Green Machine

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

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Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow

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

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Killer Empathy

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

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Malthusian Swerve

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

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Everybody's Got One

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

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Growth

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

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More Perfect: Sex Appeal

In 2017 our sister show, More Perfect aired an episode all about RBG, In September of 2020, we lost...

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Revenge of the Miasma

Today we uncover an invisible killer hidden, for over a hundred years, by reasonable disbelief. Science...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Today, a story that starts small and private, with one woman alone in her bathroom, as she makes a quiet,...

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Quantum Birds

Annie McEwen went to a mountain in Pennsylvania to help catch some migratory owls. Then Scott Weidensaul...

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Vertigogo

In this episode, first aired in 2012, we have two stories of brains pushed off-course. We relive a surreal...

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Forever Fresh

We eat apples in the summer and enjoy bananas in the winter. When we do this, we go against the natural...

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Radiolab | We Go Places

Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the...

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Nukes

In an episode first reported in 2017, we bring you a look up and down the US nuclear chain of command...

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