Unexplainable

    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.

  • Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain

  • Why are there lefties and righties?

  • Placebos work. Why?

  • Why is horror so fun?

  • Are psychedelics breaking science?

  • Your gut’s feelings

  • Is insurance doomed?

  • My animal heart

  • How hot could the world get?

  • Should you be eating poison oak?

  • Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history

  • You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?

  • Viral dark matter

  • The good virus

  • Ecstasy therapy

  • What did dinosaurs sound like?

  • Do we live inside an enormous black hole?

  • Is good posture actually good?

  • Why do we yawn?

  • Embracing economic chaos

  • We still don’t really know how inflation works

  • Can you put a price on nature?

  • The deepest spot in the ocean

  • What’s the tallest mountain in the world?

  • Did trees kill the world?

  • Can we stop aging?

  • Who's the daddy? There isn't one.

  • Itch hunt

  • How did Earth get its water?

  • Is Earth alive?

  • The alpha myth

  • The eclipse chasers

  • The Yips

  • The bleeding edge, part two

  • The bleeding edge

  • Aliens from Earth?

  • How scientists are searching for aliens

  • A universal virus-killer?

  • Why do we cry?

  • Should you quit Diet Coke?

  • The case for cursing

  • The math problem that could break the internet

  • Garbage patch kids

  • A stethoscope for the rainforest

  • Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

  • Something weird near the beginning of time

  • The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?

  • Weaponizing uncertainty

  • Can we live in space?

  • The ice cream effect

  • The data vigilantes

  • Trouble on Pickles Reef

  • Redefining death

  • The Orcanizing

  • Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac

  • Rogue waves

  • Does garlic break magnets?

  • How to decode a thought

  • It’s getting harder to see

  • Jumping the gun

  • Can we talk to animals?

  • Unexplainable or Not: Beach day!

  • Who let the wolves in?

  • Why do we have a moon?

  • The Black Box: In AI we trust?

  • The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it

  • Do animals grieve?

  • Why do we dream?

  • Cracking the Indus code

  • Awestruck

  • Expecting: Weed and pregnancy

  • Expecting: Baby brain

  • Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs

  • The tornado problem

  • How to resurrect a mammoth

  • Live show, dead dinosaurs

  • Talking trees

  • Your questions, unexplained

  • What's so funny?

  • Origins: The meaning of “life”

  • Origins: The first living thing

  • Origins: How did Earth get its water?

  • What is love?

  • Why we hiccup

  • We booped an asteroid

  • Your creepy, crawly roommates

  • Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe

  • Plants with eyes?

  • Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates

  • Your gut's feelings

  • Nuclear fusion breaks through

  • Basic instinct

  • Why we cry

  • Can we live in space?

  • Holding on to power

  • Redefining death

  • Talking to ghosts

  • Why is everyone getting food allergies?

  • Introducing The Gray Area

  • Let’s play Unexplainable or Not

  • The math problem that could break the internet

  • Jumping the gun

  • An Alzheimer's uproar

  • Salamander search party

  • What did dinosaurs sound like?

  • Can ovaries make new eggs?

  • Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex?

  • Yawn baby yawn

  • What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?

  • Vitamin X

  • Lost Worlds: What killed Venus?

  • Lost Worlds: Life on Mars?

  • Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon?

  • Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth?

  • Dropping like flies

  • Is telepathy real?

  • Why do we dream?

  • Should I take a DNA ancestry test?

  • My octopus friend?

  • Glow in the dark ocean

  • When reality broke

  • Making Sense: The sixth sense

  • Making Sense: Sight unseen

  • Making Sense: The Umami Mama

  • Making Sense: No one nose

  • Making Sense: The healing power of touch

  • Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing

  • The methane hunters

  • What is love?

  • A sonic tour of the solar system

  • Finding asteroids before they find us

  • Skeleton Lake

  • Are humans running out of sperm?

  • The quest to build a star

  • BONUS: The 2021 song

  • The building blocks of the universe

  • 99% of ocean plastic is missing

  • How medicine mansplained women’s health

  • How Venus went to hell

  • Mind readers

  • A brainless yellow goo that does math

  • Why whales get beached

  • Talking to ghosts

  • Honey, we shrunk the birds

  • Nobel Prize 2.0

  • The James Webb Time Machine

  • The James Webb Space Telescope

  • What causes Alzheimer’s?

  • Havana syndrome

  • Getting to the bottom of butts

  • The mysteries of endometriosis

  • A 150-year-old human

  • How low can you go?

  • The tornado problem

  • Moon poop

  • Hot pink flying squirrels

  • Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe

  • How do animals know where to go?

  • Invasion of the jumping worms

  • The many heights of Mount Everest

  • Unexplainable Flying Objects

  • The hunt for a new Pluto

  • Cloudy with a chance of chaos

  • A new force of nature?

  • Placebos work. Why?

  • A virus that could heal people

  • The Twilight Zone of the ocean

  • The viral ghosts of long Covid

  • Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong?

  • It’s ball lightning!

  • Skeleton Lake

  • Journey Toward the Center of the Earth

  • No one nose

  • Most of the universe is missing

  • Introducing Unexplainable

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