Tiny Matters
EN188 episodes
science
Science shapes every part of our lives, but so much of its influence is overlooked or buried in the past. Tiny Matters is an award-winning podcast about tiny things — from molecules to microbes — that have a big and often surprising impact on society. From deadly diseases to forensic toxicology to the search for extraterrestrial life, hosts and former scientists Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti embrace the awe and messiness of science and its place in history and today, and how it could impact o...
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Episodes (188)
[BONUS] ‘Drinking Grandma,’ digital cadavers and debunking a grave robbing myth:...
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The Shroud of Turin: American Medieval x Tiny Matters crossover episode
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Foraminifera: The one-celled predators that shaped our planet (and kept the rece...
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Sep 2, 202637:04pending
[BONUS] Dangerously tiny frequencies, endometriosis tests, and cookies made from...
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Aug 26, 202625:45pending
Giant viruses: How these amoeba-infecting behemoths are rewriting the rules of v...
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Aug 19, 202636:11pending
[BONUS] Fairy tale evolution and the 400(ish) year old elusive Greenland shark:...
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From cow’s milk to blood banks: The surprising evolution of blood transfusions
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[BONUS] Bread clip taxonomy and power poles on fire: Tiny Show and Tell Us #52
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Placebo: Why ‘fake’ treatments can have real power
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[BONUS] A pathology lab, a sausage duel, and the fascinating lives of yeast: Tin...
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Fireworks over millennia: From battlefields and royal displays to sustainable sp...
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[BONUS] The ‘elite neutralizers’ immune to HIV and why galaxies ‘FART’: Tiny Sho...
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Collisions in space: Satellites, space debris, and the quest to clean up Earth's...
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Jun 24, 202636:49pending
[BONUS] A nitrogen asphyxiation disaster and why ears are incredible: Tiny Show...
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Jun 17, 202623:10pending
The Challenger disaster: How a NASA tragedy led to a safer Artemis II
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[BONUS] The ‘Plankton Manifesto’ and the birth of MRI: Tiny Show and Tell Us #48
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When movies caught fire: The history and science of nitrocellulose film
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[BONUS] Von Willebrand disease and how old is the air in your lungs?: Tiny Show...
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‘Clean beauty’: Cosmetics, chemophobia and the anti-vax pipeline
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[BONUS] The Chemists’ Wars: The Origin Story of Chemistry
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[BONUS] Antarctic dinosaurs, blood restriction therapy, and an HIV prevention br...
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Deep-sea mining: Environmental uncertainty, ‘Law of the Sea,’ and shark potatoes
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[BONUS] The history of Turner Syndrome and engineering food for bees: Tiny Show...
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How soap shaped civilizations — and ‘ruined’ famous art
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[BONUS] Camel antibodies and colorful Greco-Roman statues: Tiny Show and Tell Us...
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Stinky white gold, Haber-Bosch, and ‘peecycling’: How fertilizer shapes our worl...
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[BONUS] Reef balls and peanut allergy immunotherapy: Tiny Show and Tell Us #43
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The Mothers of Gynecology: The centuries that led to today’s Black maternal mort...
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A new podcast joining the fam: Chain Reaction by ACS!
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[BONUS] 5D storage in the ‘Memory of Mankind’ and the root of morning sickness:...
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Mar 11, 202616:37failed
Inside expedition medicine: Keeping people alive in the harshest places on Earth
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[BONUS] 'Mitochondrial Eve' and birds stealing anti-bird spikes: Tiny Show and T...
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Feb 25, 202615:02pending
From ancient grain mills to massive offshore turbines: Why wind energy was — and...
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[BONUS] Dandelion rubber tires and a fentanyl vaccine: Tiny Show and Tell Us #40
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The history of clinical trials: From fake exorcisms to testing today
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Feb 4, 202636:58pending
[BONUS] Bat periods and toxins from fungi: Tiny Show and Tell Us #39
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Jan 28, 202614:02pending
The iron lung: How a hulking metal tube became the first machine to keep humans...
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[BONUS] The woman who mapped the Milky Way and a toxic evolutionary showdown: Ti...
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Dec 31, 202514:09pending
Sam’s brain-altering bacteria and Deboki’s polio vaccine fascination: EPISODE 10...
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[BONUS] Bunny pregnancy tests and a dead salmon MRI: Tiny Show and Tell Us #37
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Dec 17, 202522:10pending
How life keeps time: Zeitgebers, hidden clocks, and ugh daylight saving
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Dec 10, 202537:21pending
[BONUS] Polar bear fact vindication and vibrating insects: Tiny Show and Tell Us...
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Dec 3, 202514:51pending
Dinner with King Tut: How experimental archaeologists are recreating the past
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Nov 26, 202536:13pending
[BONUS] Making magenta pennies and touching the sun: Tiny Show and Tell Us #35
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Nov 19, 202515:04pending
What's eating the Titanic?
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[BONUS] 4 years of Tiny Matters?! How we started, what we've learned, and where...
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Nov 5, 202533:34pending
New male contraceptives could be here soon. What took so long?
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Oct 29, 202530:10pending
[BONUS] Why horseshoe crab blood is blue, HELLP syndrome, and a one-electron bon...
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Oct 22, 202511:52pending
Trade, tyranny, and untapped potential: The history and science of spices
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Oct 15, 202527:29pending
[BONUS] Fluorescent milk, ‘liquid’ glass, and studying ripples in spacetime: Tin...
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Oct 8, 202516:08pending