Join host Steve Mirsky each week as he explores the latest developments in science and technology through interviews with leading scientists and journalists.


Science Talk
Science Talk is a weekly science audio show covering the latest in the world of science and technology. Join Steve Mirsky each week as he explores cutting-edge breakthroughs and controversial issues with leading scientists and journalists. He is also an articles editor and columnist at Scientific American magazine and his column, "Antigravity", is one of science writing's rate venues for humor. Check our the new daily podcast from Scientific American: "60-Second Science." To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast

More with Maryn: McKenna on Antibiotic Resistance
2 Feb 2012 at 9:10pm
In part 2 of our conversation with journalist and author Maryn McKenna, she talks about antibiotic resistance in agriculture and human health, MRSA, and offers a brief coda on the subject of fecal transplants
Fecal Transplants: The Straight Poop
31 Jan 2012 at 8:47pm
Journalist and author Maryn McKenna talks about fecal transplants, which have proved to be exceptionally effective at restoring a healthy intestinal microbiome and curing C. diff infections, yet remain in regulatory limbo
State of the Union: Research, Technology and Energy
25 Jan 2012 at 12:00pm
About six minutes of President Obama's State of the Union address dealt with research, technology and energy
A Second Science Front: Evolution Champions Rise to Climate Science Defense
16 Jan 2012 at 3:35pm
Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, long the nation's leading defender of evolution education, discusses the NCSE's new initiative to help climate science education
Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy
14 Jan 2012 at 10:27am
Actor, playwright and journalist Anna Deavere Smith talks about the health care crisis and her play about people dealing with illness, health and the health care system, Let Me Down Easy
Man from Mars: Health and Nutrition Research at Mars, Inc., and Beyond
5 Jan 2012 at 6:02pm
Hagen Schroeter, the director of fundamental health and nutrition research at Mars, Inc., talks about research on bio-active food compounds and the search for why a healthful diet is good for you
The YouTube SpaceLab Competition
11 Dec 2011 at 11:01pm
If you're 14 to 18 years old, you still have until December 14th to prepare a two-minute video of a suggestion for an experiment to be performed at the International Space Station and upload it to youtube.com/spacelab. Winners will see their experiment performed in space
Large Hadron Collider Backgrounder
11 Dec 2011 at 5:10pm
Thomas LeCompte of Argonne National Lab was the physics coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He talks about the instrument and its future, as we await the December 13th announcement as to whether the LHC has found the Higgs particle
Out of Our Depth: Sea Level on the Rise
8 Dec 2011 at 8:52am
Ocean and climate scientist Eelco Rohling talks with Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti about updated calculations of sea-level rise as a function of climate change
Brian Greene Talks Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
23 Nov 2011 at 4:00am
Physicist Brian Greene, host of the NOVA series The Fabric of the Cosmos, addresses the question of faster-than-light neutrinos at a Q&A session after the debut of the PBS series
The Mind's Hidden Switches
22 Nov 2011 at 9:48pm
Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, talks about his article in the December issue of Scientific American magazine on epigenetics and human behavior, called "Hidden Switches in the Mind"
The Discovery of Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
5 Oct 2011 at 2:27pm
Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Then hear comments from the president of the American Chemical Society, Nancy Jackson, of Sandia National Laboratories
An Accelerating Universe: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
4 Oct 2011 at 9:08am
Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Following the formal announcement comes an explanation of the research, which tracked type Ia supernovae to discover that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. And a phone conversation with new Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt
Cancer Vaccines
30 Sep 2011 at 5:30pm
Eric von Hofe, cancer researcher and president of the biotech company Antigen Express talks about his article in the October issue of Scientific American called "A New Ally against Cancer," about cancer vaccines
Science Legend Christian de Duve
9 Sep 2011 at 5:20pm
Christian de Duve, 1974 Nobel laureate for physiology or medicine, talks about going from a cell biologist to a theorist on evolution and the origin of life