Unexplainable — Análise de anúncios do podcast
15 episódios analisados
5 min ads · 19% do episódio são anúncios
6.0 anúncios/episódio
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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.
PodSkip has analyzed 15 episodes of Unexplainable, averaging 6.0 ads per episode (19% of runtime).
An Alzheimer's breakthrough?
Oct 19, 2026
The past few months have been full of Alzheimer's optimism: new ideas that could prevent the disease from taking hold, medications that seem to slow it down, and an experimental surgery that might…
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Talking with the dead
Oct 14, 2026
“If only I could talk with them again.” It’s a common refrain for anyone who is grieving someone they love. Now, we can access technology like deadbots, or AI replicas of a lost loved one, to…
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What’s cooler than being cool?
Oct 12, 2026
The future of quantum computing depends on getting way colder than ice cold — down to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe. The quest to build these super refrigerators takes us to…
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How does music move us? (feat. Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath)
Oct 07, 2026
Music can give us goosebumps. It can make us cry. It can make us move. How?
Guests: Amelia Meath, songwriter and singer in Sylvan Esso; Elizabeth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at…
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What color is a tennis ball?
Oct 05, 2026
Is it yellow? Is it green? Or what if, as one scientist argues, “there’s no such thing as a color?”
Guest: Bevil Conway, visual artist and neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute
To watch…
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The bodies buried in the bog
Sep 28, 2026
When things fall into bogs, they sometimes wind up being beautifully preserved. This includes bodies, sometimes dating back thousands of years. We’re still trying to understand who was buried in the…
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What happened to the giant bugs?
Sep 23, 2026
Once upon a time (around 300 million years ago), Earth was home to massive dragonfly-like insects and two meter long millipede-like creatures. Why did they die off?
Guests: Ned Snelling, professor…
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Dark matter and the end of answers
Sep 21, 2026
Five-sixths of all the matter in the universe is this invisible stuff called dark matter, and scientists barely understand what it is. So what happens if we can't answer arguably the biggest mystery…
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What happened before the big bang?
Sep 16, 2026
It's a question that seems impossible to grapple with, but scientists won't take no for an answer. In this collaboration with Scientific American, we take on the big bang and a whole bunch of…
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What's the oldest story ever told?
Sep 14, 2026
An astrophysicist uses the motion of the stars to argue that a single story has been told for 100,000 years. A cognitive anthropologist has questions.
Guests: Ray Norris, astrophysicist; Manvir…
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Stopping the science that could stop the world
Sep 02, 2026
When scientists write their own rules for life, how do they know what could go wrong before it’s too late?
This is the final episode of our new three-part series, Life from Scratch.
Guests: Kate…
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A breakthrough in synthetic life
Aug 31, 2026
Synthetic biologist Kate Adamala has been making major headlines as her lab creates cells that feed, divide, and grow — all from nonliving parts. It may sound like sci-fi, but Kate believes that…
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Life from scratch
Aug 26, 2026
Scientists stripped a cell down to its most essential genes in order to find out what makes life...alive. What they found was more bizarre than they could have imagined.
This is the first episode of…
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The idea of a song
Aug 24, 2026
A few hundred milliseconds are often all you need to recognize a song, but a lot of recent hits have moved away from intros. Our friends at Switched on Pop (along with the National's Aaron Dessner)…
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Why can’t I remember being a baby?
Aug 19, 2026
And if babies forget their earliest experiences, do they still matter?
This episode is a collaboration with Vox's Explain It to Me podcast
Guests: Kristin Ohlson, writer; Tristan Yates, cognitive…
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Can these corals take the heat?
Aug 17, 2026
Warming waters are an existential threat to coral reefs, and for people who want to restore them. But in the Republic of Palau, researchers are testing out an approach to help restored reefs survive…
Why Hank Green takes pseudoscience seriously
Aug 10, 2026
Dismissing pseudoscience is too easy. Understanding why it spreads so quickly is harder. It can teach us why real science works and how to spot the difference between the two.
To watch this…
A trip to the twilight reefs
Aug 05, 2026
Down beneath the waves, where the light starts to fade, there's an ecosystem scientists don't fully understand. About a decade ago, some researchers left structures in this mysterious world and let…
The hidden world that birds see
Aug 03, 2026
Birds navigate using Earth’s magnetic field, but scientists still don’t know how they actually sense it. Called the holy grail of sensory biology, magnetoreception offers a window into the thousands…
The Godzilla El Niño
Jul 29, 2026
This global weather phenomenon could help make 2027 the hottest year on record. Our friends at The Gray Area explore what the upcoming El Niño season could reveal about the future of our…
An argument for the sun
Jul 27, 2026
It can be hard to know how to interact with the sun. Some people have swung to opposite ends of the spectrum — either over-tanning or avoiding the sun entirely. But what would a middle ground look…
What the Odyssey is hiding
Jul 22, 2026
The Late Bronze Age, when the Trojan War supposedly took place, was way more modern than Homer made it seem. But around 1177 BCE, a vast network of interconnected societies suddenly collapsed. What…
Dinosaur mysteries with Riley Black
Jul 20, 2026
How do we know what we know about dinosaurs? Riley Black takes us back to the Mesozoic Era and explains how paleontologists piece together the lives of dinosaurs from often fragmentary clues.
To…
When doctors don't know what's wrong
Jul 15, 2026
A 2015 review found that most people in the US will experience a diagnostic error in their lifetime. Some of those errors are less devastating than others, but how can we help people get better…
Are you a lyric person or a music person?
Jul 13, 2026
When people listen to songs, why do some people pay more attention to the music, and some people pay more attention to the lyrics? The answer goes way deeper than you might think — to the heart of…
Big news!
Jul 09, 2026
Unexplainable is coming to Netflix! Starting Monday, July 13.
For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscriptsFor more, go to…
Are we all living in an enormous black hole?
Jul 06, 2026
It’s possible that the entire observable universe is inside a black hole. All we need to do in order to find out is … build a gigantic particle collider around the moon. (Originally aired in…
Risky business
Jun 29, 2026
As the world gets warmer and storms get worse, insurance companies are jacking up rates or refusing to cover homeowners altogether. Is the future uninsurable? (Originally aired in 2024).
Guests…
A period piece
Jun 24, 2026
Periods and menstrual fluid have long been overlooked by scientists. Now, researchers are starting to suspect they might be sources of medical treasure. (Originally aired in 2024)
Guest: Jemma…
Bird people and deep space shrapnel
Jun 22, 2026
Two mysteries we can't stop thinking about: Is lightning actually caused by cosmic rays? And why don't birds play chess?
Articles featured: “What Causes Lightning?” by Charlie Wood (also featured…