Podcasts

Treating vaccine-hesitant individuals like they are hardcore vaccine "deniers" could backfire as a science-outreach strategy. Can the food you eat ...

Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks with Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, about the rise of ...

Is there a science-based case for organic farming? One professor says yes, but how compelling are his arguments? Environmental Working ...

A major university recently halted a science outreach event because the invited speakers were white men. Has so-called "cancel culture" ...

A controversial study recently suggested that artificial sweetener consumption may be linked to elevated cancer risk. Have food-safety regulators overlooked ...

Billions of dollars are being pumped into technologies that hope to reduce the effects of ageing. Host Alok Jha explores ...

Last week, French activist group Extinction Rebellion destroyed 15,000 tons of wheat to prove its anti-GMO bona fides. The grain ...

In the third episode on power in the food system, we speak with Channa Prakash, professor of crop genetics, biotechnology and ...

The war in Ukraine could have long-term impacts on global food prices. Can we prevent this dangerous outcome? A Japanese ...

mRNA technology gave us COVID-19 vaccines. Could it also yield more effective flu vaccines? Yes—maybe as soon as next year ...

Farmers in India are growing illegal GE eggplant in hopes of overturning the country's ban on the insect-resistant crop. Anti-aging ...

A genetically engineered "GloFish" is swimming freely in Brazil's streams. Should we be worried? Despite a popular conspiracy circulating on ...

Loneliness could drastically boost your risk of developing dementia. Genetically engineered tomatoes may be our first line of defense against ...

Can traumatic life experiences leave an imprint on our DNA that we pass down to our children? Get ready, because ...

The story of Percy Schmeiser is a well known tale of big biotech against the little farmer from rural Saskatchewan ...

The recent campaign to "cancel" comedian Joe Rogan for promoting COVID misinformation highlights a troubling trend in science communication. High-functioning ...

We all crave sugar on occasion, and geneticists say they've found some of the genes that may have driven this ...

Does academic freedom protect professors who spread scientific nonsense online? The UK appears to be backtracking on a pesticide ban ...

Could the food we eat and the air we breathe be damaging our immune systems? The number of people with ...

People believe a lot of nonsense about food and farming; let's debunk the top-10 worst of these "truisms." The FDA ...

On average, the U.S. is tallying nearly 500,000 new COVID cases a day. [January 3], the U.S. hit yet another ...

Researchers have developed a biosensor they say can monitor the activity of CRISPR gene editing in real-time. Synthetic biology is ...

The COVID-19 vaccines saved a lot of lives in 2021, but convincing some Americans to take them proved to be ...

Penny Lane gave up months of wages and weeks of her life to have her kidney cut out and given ...

The USDA's mandatory bioengineered food labels will begin to appear on many more products next month. What can consumers expect ...

A recent meta-analysis has alleged that the health risks linked to chemical exposure have doubled in the last five years ...

A new at-home dementia test may help predict your risk of cognitive impairment late in life, though some experts fear ...