Podcasts

Scientists used a smoking machine—complete with a 3-D-printed mouthpiece—to figure out how to get the most cannabinoid per puff. 

New AI technology predicts hit songs—by listening to someone’s body. 

Here’s what’s behind the A.I technology that has worried so many actors—including something called “the orb.”

A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head.

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.

Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress

Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work. 

Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.

Was a teenager named Alessandra Giliani the Western world’s first female anatomist? In 14th-century Italy, women were strictly barred from medical research. One flouted that rule—disguised as a man.

New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health.

ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they?

The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.