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Unexplainable

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Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know…and then keeps on going. The Unexplainable team — Noam Hassenfeld, Julia Longoria, Byrd Pinkerton, and Meradith Hoddinott — tackles scientific mysteries, unanswered…

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How does creativity work? 2026-10-26 · 25m
Spider Web 2.0 2026-10-23 · 22m
The wild orchid mystery 2026-10-21 · 26m
An Alzheimer's breakthrough? 2026-10-19 · 28m
Talking with the dead 2026-10-14 · 36m
What’s cooler than being cool? 2026-10-12 · 29m
How does music move us? (feat. Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath) 2026-10-07 · 32m
What color is a tennis ball? 2026-10-05 · 28m
The bodies buried in the bog 2026-09-28 · 26m
What happened to the giant bugs? 2026-09-23 · 27m
Dark matter and the end of answers 2026-09-21 · 35m
What happened before the big bang? 2026-09-16 · 26m
What's the oldest story ever told? 2026-09-14 · 27m
Stopping the science that could stop the world 2026-09-02 · 36m
A breakthrough in synthetic life 2026-08-31 · 34m
Life from scratch 2026-08-26 · 30m
The idea of a song 2026-08-24 · 44m
Why can’t I remember being a baby? 2026-08-19 · 27m
Can these corals take the heat? 2026-08-17 · 31m
Why Hank Green takes pseudoscience seriously 2026-08-10 · 27m
A trip to the twilight reefs 2026-08-05 · 40m
The hidden world that birds see 2026-08-03 · 28m
The Godzilla El Niño 2026-07-29 · 44m
An argument for the sun 2026-07-27 · 31m
What the Odyssey is hiding 2026-07-22 · 25m
Dinosaur mysteries with Riley Black 2026-07-20 · 32m
When doctors don't know what's wrong 2026-07-15 · 32m
Are you a lyric person or a music person? 2026-07-13 · 33m
Big news! 2026-07-09 · 3m
Are we all living in an enormous black hole? 2026-07-06 · 26m
Risky business 2026-06-29 · 30m
A period piece 2026-06-24 · 20m
Bird people and deep space shrapnel 2026-06-22 · 27m
Should we really kill all the lanternflies? 2026-06-17 · 33m
Sean tries raw milk 2026-06-15 · 32m
A new species in New York 2026-06-10 · 26m
The disaster problem 2026-06-08 · 60m
The lost Lyme vaccine 2026-06-03 · 38m
The cells we share 2026-06-01 · 36m
The man who bet against humanity — and lost 2026-05-20 · 17m
The aftermath 2026-05-18 · 42m
A better Black Death story 2026-05-13 · 32m
The hunt for a lost species 2026-05-11 · 28m
Dark matter music 2026-04-29 · 34m
I glow, therefore I am 2026-04-27 · 28m
Is everything inflammation? 2026-04-22 · 32m
A show about nothing 2026-04-20 · 28m
The Hitchhiking Microbe’s Guide to the Galaxy 2026-04-15 · 26m
Why did we go back to the moon? 2026-04-13 · 32m
Is male birth control finally here? 2026-04-01 · 28m
Mi Vickicito 2026-03-30 · 19m
Casey gets his voice back 2026-03-25 · 37m
Oliver Sacks's not quite nonfiction 2026-03-23 · 31m
The accidental rise of Botox 2026-03-18 · 29m
Who are we to fight the alchemy? 2026-03-16 · 32m
Snow day! 2026-03-11 · 29m
My brain made me do it 2026-03-09 · 27m
The Codfather 2026-02-25 · 39m
Stress ages us on a cellular level 2026-02-23 · 15m
The Amazing Extremophiles 2026-02-11 · 26m
Everyone does it. Why can’t I? 2026-02-09 · 40m
Mysterious objects near the beginning of time 2026-02-04 · 26m
Cloud atlas 2026-02-02 · 29m
What's good sound? 2026-01-28 · 26m
No data, just vibes 2026-01-26 · 23m
It's not all bad 2026-01-14 · 25m
Superbabies? 2026-01-12 · 26m
The G-word 2026-01-07 · 27m
Who's afraid of big, bad Yellowstone? 2026-01-05 · 23m
Vitamin C and the common cold 2025-12-17 · 32m
Your moments of silence (The Sound Barrier #5) 2025-12-15 · 32m
Diary of a teenage brain, part 2 2025-12-10 · 27m
Diary of a teenage brain 2025-12-08 · 29m
The trees of death 2025-12-03 · 27m
That's no moon... 2025-12-01 · 21m
Lost on the road to enlightenment 2025-11-19 · 35m
Is animal grief real? 2025-11-17 · 26m
The Sound Barrier #4: Listen to the universe 2025-11-12 · 37m
The Sound Barrier #3: What does silence sound like? 2025-11-10 · 32m
The Sound Barrier #2: The noise that isn't there 2025-11-05 · 34m
The Sound Barrier #1: The myth of hearing 2025-11-03 · 40m
Solve me a river 2025-10-29 · 37m
This episode is haunted and spooky 2025-10-27 · 20m
Consider the shrimp 2025-10-22 · 24m
When talent vanishes overnight 2025-10-20 · 29m
Composing chaos 2025-10-08 · 28m
Does Tylenol cause autism? 2025-10-06 · 27m
Real-life zombies 2025-10-01 · 27m
How to change your personality 2025-09-29 · 40m
What’s A 2025-09-24 · 27m
Did we find signs of life on Mars? 2025-09-22 · 34m
The metabolism myth 2025-09-17 · 30m
The Vagina Voyages 2025-09-15 · 40m
A rabbi and the Lorax walk into a bar... 2025-09-10 · 22m
Is a little alcohol bad for you? 2025-09-08 · 29m
Ice Sheet Time Machine 2025-08-27 · 32m
Animals in the year 20202025 2025-08-25 · 27m
Nightmare at the end of the universe 2025-08-18 · 26m
Life in plastic — not fantastic? 2025-08-13 · 30m
When waves go rogue 2025-08-06 · 28m
Good news for people who love bad news 2025-08-04 · 28m
12 tiny worlds 2025-07-30 · 36m
How good was Michael Jordan, really? 2025-07-28 · 46m
One weird trick to get unlimited clean energy 2025-07-23 · 24m
Who taught beavers to build dams? 2025-07-21 · 29m
The disease we let win 2025-07-16 · 32m
Science! Tell me what to eat! 2025-07-14 · 58m
A magical world at the ocean’s edge 2025-07-02 · 37m
Ruff translation 2025-06-30 · 32m
Sick of “morning” sickness 2025-06-25 · 32m
Your bug roommates 2025-06-23 · 27m
Why I left the NIH 2025-06-18 · 39m
Mostly dead is slightly alive 2025-06-16 · 19m
We don't understand yogurt 2025-06-11 · 19m
The musical structure of the universe 2025-06-09 · 53m
How to beat roulette 2025-06-04 · 20m
Is climate change really making hurricanes worse? 2025-06-02 · 20m
Are we sure about fluoride? 2025-05-21 · 29m
The man who walked butterflies on a leash 2025-05-19 · 25m
Imagine a sunset, now imagine you can't 2025-05-14 · 24m
An imaginary planet that feels extremely real 2025-05-12 · 24m
The view from inside a volcano 2025-05-07 · 24m
Who are you calling a Neanderthal? 2025-05-05 · 18m
Sorry, we left an implant in your brain 2025-04-30 · 34m
Blood farm 2025-04-23 · 25m
Moon genes 2025-04-16 · 24m
How to stop your hiccups 2025-04-09 · 30m
A new way to listen 2025-04-07 · 2m
Intraterrestrials 2025-04-02 · 24m
How to talk to aliens 2025-03-26 · 25m
Good Robot #4: Who, me? 2025-03-22 · 50m
Good Robot #3: Let’s fix everything 2025-03-19 · 46m
Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome 2025-03-15 · 54m
Good Robot #1: The magic intelligence in the sky 2025-03-12 · 50m
A strange signal from space 2025-03-05 · 35m
Dylan got malaria on purpose 2025-02-26 · 26m
The problem with dreams 2025-02-19 · 28m
Is science in danger? 2025-02-12 · 24m
How umami blew up taste 2025-02-05 · 36m
What’s hiding under the Antarctic ice? 2025-01-22 · 24m
Biopiracy 2025-01-15 · 28m
Will AI ever ... feel? 2025-01-08 · 26m
New year, new diet, live forever? 2025-01-01 · 26m
Mysteries we can’t stop thinking about 2024-12-18 · 26m
Who let the wolves in? 2024-12-11 · 24m
Where to meet a Neanderthal 2024-12-04 · 29m
Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain 2024-11-20 · 21m
Why are there lefties and righties? 2024-11-13 · 28m
Placebos work. Why? 2024-11-06 · 26m
Why is horror so fun? 2024-10-30 · 20m
Are psychedelics breaking science? 2024-10-23 · 25m
Your gut’s feelings 2024-10-16 · 28m
Is insurance doomed? 2024-10-09 · 29m
My animal heart 2024-10-02 · 25m
How hot could the world get? 2024-09-25 · 24m
Should you be eating poison oak? 2024-09-18 · 29m
Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history 2024-09-11 · 23m
You're lost in the wilderness. Now what? 2024-08-28 · 22m
Viral dark matter 2024-08-21 · 24m
The good virus 2024-08-14 · 20m
Ecstasy therapy 2024-08-07 · 30m
What did dinosaurs sound like? 2024-07-31 · 39m
Do we live inside an enormous black hole? 2024-07-24 · 25m
Is good posture actually good? 2024-07-17 · 21m
Why do we yawn? 2024-07-10 · 37m
Embracing economic chaos 2024-07-03 · 27m
We still don’t really know how inflation works 2024-06-26 · 30m
Can you put a price on nature? 2024-06-19 · 23m
The deepest spot in the ocean 2024-06-12 · 28m
What’s the tallest mountain in the world? 2024-06-05 · 28m
Did trees kill the world? 2024-05-22 · 27m
Can we stop aging? 2024-05-15 · 37m
Who's the daddy? There isn't one. 2024-05-08 · 20m
Itch hunt 2024-05-01 · 18m
How did Earth get its water? 2024-04-24 · 26m
Is Earth alive? 2024-04-17 · 28m
The alpha myth 2024-04-10 · 41m
The eclipse chasers 2024-04-03 · 20m
The Yips 2024-03-27 · 28m
The bleeding edge, part two 2024-03-20 · 24m
The bleeding edge 2024-03-13 · 19m
Aliens from Earth? 2024-03-06 · 27m
How scientists are searching for aliens 2024-02-28 · 17m
A universal virus-killer? 2024-02-21 · 24m
Why do we cry? 2024-02-14 · 24m
Should you quit Diet Coke? 2024-02-07 · 26m
The case for cursing 2024-01-31 · 28m
The math problem that could break the internet 2024-01-24 · 39m
Garbage patch kids 2024-01-17 · 20m
A stethoscope for the rainforest 2024-01-10 · 27m
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 2024-01-03 · 30m
Something weird near the beginning of time 2023-12-20 · 21m
The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground? 2023-12-13 · 20m
Weaponizing uncertainty 2023-12-06 · 25m
Can we live in space? 2023-11-29 · 33m
The ice cream effect 2023-11-15 · 29m
The data vigilantes 2023-11-08 · 32m
Trouble on Pickles Reef 2023-11-01 · 27m
Redefining death 2023-10-25 · 34m
The Orcanizing 2023-10-18 · 22m
Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac 2023-10-04 · 34m
Rogue waves 2023-09-27 · 28m
Does garlic break magnets? 2023-09-20 · 31m
How to decode a thought 2023-09-13 · 32m
It’s getting harder to see 2023-08-30 · 21m
Jumping the gun 2023-08-23 · 34m
Can we talk to animals? 2023-08-16 · 34m
Unexplainable or Not: Beach day! 2023-08-09 · 30m
Who let the wolves in? 2023-08-02 · 25m
Why do we have a moon? 2023-07-26 · 27m
The Black Box: In AI we trust? 2023-07-19 · 31m
The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it 2023-07-12 · 35m
Do animals grieve? 2023-06-28 · 27m
Why do we dream? 2023-06-21 · 23m
Cracking the Indus code 2023-06-14 · 24m
Awestruck 2023-06-07 · 25m
Expecting: Weed and pregnancy 2023-05-24 · 31m
Expecting: Baby brain 2023-05-17 · 28m
Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs 2023-05-10 · 37m
The tornado problem 2023-05-03 · 25m
How to resurrect a mammoth 2023-04-26 · 33m
Live show, dead dinosaurs 2023-04-19 · 37m
Talking trees 2023-04-12 · 23m
Your questions, unexplained 2023-04-05 · 27m
What's so funny? 2023-03-22 · 19m
Origins: The meaning of “life” 2023-03-15 · 26m
Origins: The first living thing 2023-03-08 · 28m
Origins: How did Earth get its water? 2023-03-01 · 26m
What is love? 2023-02-15 · 33m
Why we hiccup 2023-02-08 · 30m
We booped an asteroid 2023-02-01 · 22m
Your creepy, crawly roommates 2023-01-25 · 27m
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe 2023-01-18 · 32m
Plants with eyes? 2023-01-11 · 27m
Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates 2023-01-04 · 30m
Your gut's feelings 2022-12-21 · 28m
Nuclear fusion breaks through 2022-12-14 · 30m
Basic instinct 2022-12-07 · 29m
Why we cry 2022-11-30 · 24m
Can we live in space? 2022-11-16 · 31m
Holding on to power 2022-11-09 · 31m
Redefining death 2022-11-02 · 33m
Talking to ghosts 2022-10-26 · 31m
Why is everyone getting food allergies? 2022-10-19 · 26m
Introducing The Gray Area 2022-10-15 · 54m
Let’s play Unexplainable or Not 2022-10-05 · 29m
The math problem that could break the internet 2022-09-28 · 38m
Jumping the gun 2022-09-21 · 33m
An Alzheimer's uproar 2022-09-14 · 37m
Salamander search party 2022-08-31 · 27m
What did dinosaurs sound like? 2022-08-24 · 39m
Can ovaries make new eggs? 2022-08-17 · 29m
Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex? 2022-08-10 · 47m
Yawn baby yawn 2022-07-27 · 37m
What’s the James Webb telescope searching for? 2022-07-20 · 49m
Vitamin X 2022-07-13 · 34m
Lost Worlds: What killed Venus? 2022-06-29 · 28m
Lost Worlds: Life on Mars? 2022-06-22 · 30m
Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon? 2022-06-15 · 27m
Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth? 2022-06-08 · 27m
Dropping like flies 2022-05-25 · 27m
Is telepathy real? 2022-05-18 · 26m
Why do we dream? 2022-05-11 · 23m
Should I take a DNA ancestry test? 2022-05-04 · 28m
My octopus friend? 2022-04-27 · 25m
Glow in the dark ocean 2022-04-20 · 31m
When reality broke 2022-04-13 · 26m
Making Sense: The sixth sense 2022-04-06 · 27m
Making Sense: Sight unseen 2022-03-30 · 25m
Making Sense: The Umami Mama 2022-03-23 · 37m
Making Sense: No one nose 2022-03-16 · 29m
Making Sense: The healing power of touch 2022-03-09 · 28m
Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing 2022-03-02 · 40m
The methane hunters 2022-02-16 · 23m
What is love? 2022-02-09 · 33m
A sonic tour of the solar system 2022-02-02 · 22m
Finding asteroids before they find us 2022-01-26 · 31m
Skeleton Lake 2022-01-19 · 28m
Are humans running out of sperm? 2022-01-12 · 28m
The quest to build a star 2022-01-05 · 28m
BONUS: The 2021 song 2021-12-31 · 5m
The building blocks of the universe 2021-12-22 · 54m
99% of ocean plastic is missing 2021-12-15 · 30m
How medicine mansplained women’s health 2021-12-08 · 26m
How Venus went to hell 2021-12-01 · 27m
Mind readers 2021-11-17 · 32m
A brainless yellow goo that does math 2021-11-10 · 25m
Why whales get beached 2021-11-03 · 22m
Talking to ghosts 2021-10-27 · 32m
Honey, we shrunk the birds 2021-10-20 · 27m
Nobel Prize 2.0 2021-10-06 · 26m
The James Webb Time Machine 2021-09-29 · 29m
The James Webb Space Telescope 2021-09-22 · 26m
What causes Alzheimer’s? 2021-09-15 · 30m
Havana syndrome 2021-09-01 · 28m
Getting to the bottom of butts 2021-08-25 · 26m
The mysteries of endometriosis 2021-08-18 · 30m
A 150-year-old human 2021-08-11 · 30m
How low can you go? 2021-08-04 · 27m
The tornado problem 2021-07-28 · 24m
Moon poop 2021-07-21 · 24m
Hot pink flying squirrels 2021-07-14 · 30m
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe 2021-06-30 · 31m
How do animals know where to go? 2021-06-23 · 28m
Invasion of the jumping worms 2021-06-16 · 25m
The many heights of Mount Everest 2021-06-09 · 29m
Unexplainable Flying Objects 2021-06-02 · 32m
The hunt for a new Pluto 2021-05-26 · 32m
Cloudy with a chance of chaos 2021-05-19 · 28m
A new force of nature? 2021-05-12 · 25m
Placebos work. Why? 2021-05-05 · 26m
A virus that could heal people 2021-04-28 · 24m
The Twilight Zone of the ocean 2021-04-21 · 27m
The viral ghosts of long Covid 2021-04-14 · 25m
Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong? 2021-04-07 · 30m
It’s ball lightning! 2021-03-31 · 26m
Skeleton Lake 2021-03-24 · 27m
Journey Toward the Center of the Earth 2021-03-17 · 28m
No one nose 2021-03-10 · 29m
Most of the universe is missing 2021-03-10 · 33m
Introducing Unexplainable 2021-02-19 · 3m
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