ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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 questions, and everything we learn diving into the unknown. New episodes Mondays and Wednesdays.
From Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
From Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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semiweekly
Average audio length:
29 minutes
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English
United States
324 episodes
since Feb. 19, 2021
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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Guest: Konstantina Kilteni, principal investigator of the Touch & Tickle Lab at the Donders Institute
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Guest: Heather Berlin, author of The Fine Art of Losing Control…
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Guest: Greg Holland, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at San Diego State University
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Guest: Lizzie Peabody, host of Sidedoor
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Guest: Dylan S…
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The future of quantum computing depends on getting way colder than ice cold — down to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe. The quest to build these super refrigerators takes us to nuclear bomb stockpiles, the moon, and … Party City?
Guest: Zack Savitsky, science journalist, author of …
Music can give us goosebumps. It can make us cry. It can make us move. How?
Guests: Amelia Meath, songwriter and singer in Sylvan Esso; Elizabeth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University
For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscriptsFo…
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