Radiolab

In this new short, a tree full of blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of altruism and natural selection.

In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?

A mysterious case of the topsy turvies and a return to the question of what felines feel when they fall.

Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature?

In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie.

In this hour of Radiolab, we take to the street to ask what makes cities tick.

Jad and Robert pit physics against a bible story with this simple question: could a team of trumpeters really bring down the walls of Jericho?

Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought, inner speech, and the voice in our heads.

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But this hour, we try to do just that.

Malcolm Gladwell doesn't like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn't believe that innate ability can fully explain superstar hockey players or billionaire software giants. In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation between Robert and Malcolm recorded at the 92nd St Y.

One place you absolutely, positively do not want to be if you're a healthy, middle-aged American lobster: trapped in a suburban grocery store in western Pennsylvania. But that's where this week's podcast begins.

Oops. In this hour of Radiolab, stories of unintended consequences.

Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close, the great artist known for his enormous paintings of ... that's right, faces.

In this hour of Radiolab: an unflinching look at the good, bad, and ugly side of tumors.

Agatha Christie's clever detective novels may reveal more about the inner workings of the human mind than she intended. In this podcast, a look at what scientists uncover when they treat words like data.

Music duo Buke and Gass play for us, attempt to describe their genre-bending sound, and talk a bit about what's it like to play out what you don't say in this podcast.

On this hour of Radiolab: a journey to the edge of human limits.

There’s a common problem faced by Alzheimer's and Dementia patients all over the world: lost in their memories, they sometimes get disoriented, and wander off. In this podcast, Lulu Miller talks to a nursing home in Düsseldorf, Germany that came up with a novel solution.

How do you know your mother is really your mother? It's simple, right? You look at her, you recognize her, enough said. Well, in this podcast...it may not be that simple.

Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family. This hour of Radiolab: stories of trying to live together.