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Unexplainable

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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.

Episodes (306)

Should I take a DNA ancestry test?

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May 4, 202228:09pending

My octopus friend?

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Apr 27, 202224:36pending

Glow in the dark ocean

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Apr 20, 202230:30pending

When reality broke

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Apr 13, 202225:38pending

Making Sense: The sixth sense

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Apr 6, 202226:30pending

Making Sense: Sight unseen

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Mar 30, 202224:47pending

Making Sense: The Umami Mama

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Mar 23, 202237:01pending

Making Sense: No one nose

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Mar 16, 202229:15pending

Making Sense: The healing power of touch

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Mar 9, 202228:10pending

Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing

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Mar 2, 202240:14pending

The methane hunters

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Feb 16, 202222:51pending

What is love?

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Feb 9, 202232:42pending

A sonic tour of the solar system

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Feb 2, 202221:59pending

Finding asteroids before they find us

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Jan 26, 202230:32pending

Skeleton Lake

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Jan 19, 202228:14pending

Are humans running out of sperm?

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Jan 12, 202227:31pending

The quest to build a star

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Jan 5, 202228:09pending

BONUS: The 2021 song

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Dec 31, 20215:12pending

The building blocks of the universe

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Dec 22, 202153:54pending

99% of ocean plastic is missing

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Dec 15, 202129:54pending

How medicine mansplained women’s health

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Dec 8, 202125:37pending

How Venus went to hell

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Dec 1, 202127:29pending

Mind readers

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Nov 17, 202132:10pending

A brainless yellow goo that does math

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Nov 10, 202125:13pending

Why whales get beached

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Nov 3, 202121:36pending

Talking to ghosts

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Oct 27, 202131:44pending

Honey, we shrunk the birds

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Oct 20, 202127:19pending

Nobel Prize 2.0

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Oct 6, 202125:37pending

The James Webb Time Machine

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Sep 29, 202128:30pending

The James Webb Space Telescope

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Sep 22, 202126:28pending

What causes Alzheimer’s?

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Sep 15, 202130:10pending

Havana syndrome

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Sep 1, 202128:23pending

Getting to the bottom of butts

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Aug 25, 202125:52pending

The mysteries of endometriosis

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Aug 18, 202130:22pending

A 150-year-old human

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Aug 11, 202129:45pending

How low can you go?

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Aug 4, 202127:25pending

The tornado problem

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Jul 28, 202124:18pending

Moon poop

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Jul 21, 202124:15pending

Hot pink flying squirrels

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Jul 14, 202129:39pending

Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe

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Jun 30, 202131:20pending

How do animals know where to go?

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Jun 23, 202127:56pending

Invasion of the jumping worms

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Jun 16, 202125:29pending

The many heights of Mount Everest

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Jun 9, 202128:32pending

Unexplainable Flying Objects

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Jun 2, 202132:28pending

The hunt for a new Pluto

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May 26, 202132:19pending

Cloudy with a chance of chaos

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May 19, 202128:16pending

A new force of nature?

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May 12, 202124:52pending

Placebos work. Why?

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May 5, 202125:30pending

A virus that could heal people

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Apr 28, 202123:33pending

The Twilight Zone of the ocean

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Apr 21, 202126:32pending