Curiosity Weekly

Discovery 2266 - Lefties, Raise Your Hands

Welcome to Curiosity Weekly from Discovery, hosted by Dr. Samantha Yammine. Once a week, we’ll bring you the latest and greatest in scientific discoveries and break down the details so that you don’t need a PhD to understand it. From neuroscience to climate tech to AI and genetics, no subject is off-limits. Join Sam as she interviews expert guests and investigates the research guiding some of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs affecting our world today.

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Lefties, Raise Your Hands

Training the Families of Astronauts: Then and Now

CSI Shark: Forensics of a Shark Attack

If You Give a Shark a Cookie…

Programming the Body to Fight Cancer

Jealousy Vs. Envy

The Researchers Translating Whale Language

The Machine That Lets Us Look At Dark Energy

Cocaine is in Our Waterways. How are Animals Responding?

Science Needs Creativity

Copy, Paste, Clone: What it Takes to Bring Back the Past

What Out-of-Body Experiences Reveal About Consciousness

Hantavirus Outbreak: Separating Fact from Fear

Why Are People Getting Poop Transplants?

How Violent Video Games Shape Perception

AI in Healthcare Isn’t What You Think

How Much Socializing Do You Really Need?

Ending Animal Testing: Realistic or Not?

The Analog Movement

Inside the High-Tech Hunt for Dinosaur Bones

Medicinal Psychedelics: Hype or Health?

Magic Mushrooms Help Trees Gossip

Online BS Fools Everyone, Even Experts

Life Under the Sea, No Singing Crabs

Happiness IRL

Tips For Pits: The Science of Body Odor

History Punished Scientists - Are We Doing the Same Thing?

Does Your Dog Actually Feel Guilt?

Urban Ecosystems With The Rat Detective

The Biggest Animal Sanctuary in the World with Forrest Galante

The End of the Universe

Why Scientists Can’t Agree on Aging

Why Society Treats Allergies Like a Nothingburger

We Are Starting to Talk Like ChatGPT

The Inequity of Climate Change

This is Your Brain on Sleep

The Batmobile Lab That Chases Storms

How Science Can Hack Flavor

This Episode Will Make You Love Math

The Non-Fiction of Science Fiction

Your Garden Is Not an Island: How to Protect Pollinators

Your Life Runs on GPS. And GPS Runs on Duct Tape

Designing Cities for a Warmer World

How Everyday People Power Big Science

Who Says Science Can’t Be Silly?

Mapping Minds is the White Whale of Brain Science

Is a Lab-Grown “Brain” Conscious?

Connection and Play Can Keep the Doctor Away

How to Not Raise an iPad Baby

A is for Apple… Or is it AI?