Tiny Matters
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)
The future of electronics: How small can we go?
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Are we alone in the universe?
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Algae transformed Earth. Next stop: Mars?
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Shipworms, sponges and snail venoms: The search for marine medicine
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"The Last of Us" fungi Q&A with mycologist Giuliana Furci
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Microplastics and PFAS (aka 'forever chemicals') are everywhere. What does that...
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Detection dogs: Sniffing out explosives, invasive pythons and...disease?
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Hank Green on dad emails, the business of scicomm, and the value of niche
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The hunt for a rare microorganism
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Tell us what YOU want to learn about in 2023!
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False memories, a surprising Civil War corpse, weekly dino fossil discoveries, a...
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Radiolab's Latif Nasser on his love of science history, storytelling, and Wikipe...
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The Ig Nobel Prize: Levitating frogs, constipated scorpions, and other science t...
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Does the microbiome deserve so much hype?
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Lava bombs, the northern lights, ancient skull surgeries, and more! It's a vacat...
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What does it mean to 'age'? And will science ever stop us from aging?
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It's spooky season! Using science to unravel vampire myths and survive a zombie...
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The rapid evolution of lactose intolerance (or, in fact, lactose tolerance)
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Dreaming: Why we hallucinate while asleep (and do spiders do it too?)
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Wastewater is helping us track disease outbreaks. Could it predict a future pand...
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If the Milky Way could talk, what would it tell us?
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Regenerating a limb (or brand new body)
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Preservatives: From ancient methods to today's plastic-wrapped Twinkies
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Smallpox is the only human infectious disease we've eradicated. Why?
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Why you should care about sharks (and why Sharknado wasn't totally wrong)
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Decades later, people are still dying from the 9/11 terrorist attacks
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The deadly London smog that changed pollution regulation forever
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Body farms: Anthropological research facilities are teaching us about life after...
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What happened to Zika virus and the families affected?
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Sugar: The addiction debate and an ancient mutation that’s killing us today
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Bioterrorism: Weaponizing science has been around for centuries
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What is a memory? And how is it stored?
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Q&A with Tiny Matters hosts Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti
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Typhoid fever didn't end with Typhoid Mary
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Could probiotics save coral reefs?
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Why don't we have an HIV vaccine?
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Dinosaur fossils: Informing Jurassic Park, inspiring new tech, and helping us pr...
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Welcome to Tiny Matters! A podcast about the small science of big things
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