Season 8’s “Virtual In-Stanity” is one of the many episodes that makes use of the wild CIA experiments and technologies for its story, but this is likely one of the most twisted takes on it. After ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. When someone we love dies we often yearn for the impossible: one more conversation.

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Headaches are incredibly common, but they’ve gotten surprisingly little attention from scientists. If you're enjoying ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Halloween, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Halloween is pretty much my favorite holiday. That’s mostly because of the crisp autumn ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The president of the United States recently claimed that the use of acetaminophen, commonly known by the brand name ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’ve all heard apologies that ring hollow and others that sound genuine, but what makes the difference? New research ...

Tell me about what you had for dinner last night. There are different ways you could fill in the details of that story. You could give perceptual descriptions of how your food looked and tasted. Or ...

Scientists have long hypothesized about a theoretical limit to human energy use. Yet elite endurance athletes are constantly pushing these biological boundaries. Now a new study that followed ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played and herders ...