Unexplainable

by Vox
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Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know … and then keeps on going. Host Noam Hassenfeld and an all-star team of reporters — Byrd Pinkerton, Meradith Hoddinott, and Mandy Nguyen — tackle scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and everything we learn by diving into the unknown. New episodes drop every Wednesday.

Recent Episodes
  • Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain
    Nov 20, 2024 – 22:52
  • Why are there lefties and righties?
    Nov 13, 2024 – 29:50
  • Placebos work. Why?
    Nov 6, 2024 – 27:57
  • Why is horror so fun?
    Oct 30, 2024 – 21:51
  • Are psychedelics breaking science?
    Oct 23, 2024 – 26:40
  • Your gut’s feelings
    Oct 16, 2024 – 30:09
  • Is insurance doomed?
    Oct 9, 2024 – 30:59
  • My animal heart
    Oct 2, 2024 – 27:20
  • How hot could the world get?
    Sep 25, 2024 – 25:58
  • Should you be eating poison oak?
    Sep 18, 2024 – 30:40
  • Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history
    Sep 11, 2024 – 25:28
  • You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?
    Aug 28, 2024 – 24:04
  • Viral dark matter
    Aug 21, 2024 – 25:56
  • The good virus
    Aug 14, 2024 – 21:56
  • Ecstasy therapy
    Aug 7, 2024 – 32:18
  • What did dinosaurs sound like?
    Jul 31, 2024 – 40:39
  • Do we live inside an enormous black hole?
    Jul 24, 2024 – 25:09
  • Is good posture actually good?
    Jul 17, 2024 – 21:26
  • Why do we yawn?
    Jul 10, 2024 – 36:34
  • Embracing economic chaos
    Jul 3, 2024 – 26:42
  • We still don’t really know how inflation works
    Jun 26, 2024 – 30:02
  • Can you put a price on nature?
    Jun 19, 2024 – 23:07
  • The deepest spot in the ocean
    Jun 12, 2024 – 28:14
  • What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
    Jun 5, 2024 – 28:09
  • Did trees kill the world?
    May 22, 2024 – 26:56
  • Can we stop aging?
    May 15, 2024 – 37:19
  • Who's the daddy? There isn't one.
    May 8, 2024 – 20:21
  • Itch hunt
    May 1, 2024 – 18:27
  • How did Earth get its water?
    Apr 24, 2024 – 25:31
  • Is Earth alive?
    Apr 17, 2024 – 28:01
  • The alpha myth
    Apr 10, 2024 – 40:40
  • The eclipse chasers
    Apr 3, 2024 – 19:32
  • The Yips
    Mar 27, 2024 – 27:52
  • The bleeding edge, part two
    Mar 20, 2024 – 24:26
  • The bleeding edge
    Mar 13, 2024 – 18:55
  • Aliens from Earth?
    Mar 6, 2024 – 26:44
  • How scientists are searching for aliens
    Feb 28, 2024 – 16:30
  • A universal virus-killer?
    Feb 21, 2024 – 24:22
  • Why do we cry?
    Feb 14, 2024 – 24:10
  • Should you quit Diet Coke?
    Feb 7, 2024 – 25:36
  • The case for cursing
    Jan 31, 2024 – 27:36
  • The math problem that could break the internet
    Jan 24, 2024 – 38:33
  • Garbage patch kids
    Jan 17, 2024 – 20:18
  • A stethoscope for the rainforest
    Jan 10, 2024 – 26:33
  • Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
    Jan 3, 2024 – 30:23
  • Something weird near the beginning of time
    Dec 20, 2023 – 21:01
  • The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?
    Dec 13, 2023 – 19:59
  • Weaponizing uncertainty
    Dec 6, 2023 – 25:21
  • Can we live in space?
    Nov 29, 2023 – 32:50
  • The ice cream effect
    Nov 15, 2023 – 29:21
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