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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and... more

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Episodes

The Skeptics Guide #976 - Mar 23 2024

Interview with Dante Lauretta of the Osiris Rex mission; Quickie With Steve: Treating HIV with CRISPR; News Items: Starship's Third... more

23 Mar 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #975 - Mar 16 2024

Tax Scams; News Items: Pentagon UFO Report, Microplastic Risks, Parasite Cleanse, Gut Microbe Communication, Interstellar Meteorite; Who's That Noisy; Your... more

16 Mar 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #974 - Mar 9 2024

Quickie with Bob: Colliding Neutron Stars; News Items: Sinking Cities, Hypervaccination, Conspiracy Theories and Disease X, Celebrities and Flat Earth,... more

09 Mar 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #973 - Mar 2 2024

News Items: First Private Landing on the Moon, Sex Difference in the Brain, Bee Venom for Breast Cancer, Learning Empathy,... more

02 Mar 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #972 - Feb 24 2024

Interview with Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists; News Items: Pesticides in Oats, AI Video, University Rankings Flawed, Mewing and... more

24 Feb 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #971 - Feb 17 2024

Quickie with Bob - Metalenses; News Items: Flow Batteries, Green Roofs, LEGO MRI scanner, The Future Circular Collider, Mayo Clinic... more

17 Feb 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #970 - Feb 10 2024

What's the Word: Cardinal; News Items: New Virus-Like Microbes Found, SLIM Lunar Lander, Misinformation and Wellness Influencers, Super Earth in... more

10 Feb 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #969 - Feb 3 2024

Interview with Dustin Bates of Starset; News Items: Neuralink Implant, Love on the Brain, Amelia Earhart Plane Evidence, Hiding Sickness,... more

03 Feb 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #968 - Jan 27 2024

Swindler's List: Deep Fake Robot Call; News Item: Oxygen Bottleneck, NASA Opens Osiris Rex Canister, Learning and Longevity, DNA Directed... more

27 Jan 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #967 - Jan 20 2024

Interview with Robert Sapolsky; News Items: Betavolt 50 Year Battery, Moon Landing Delayed, Cloned Monkeys, Converting CO2 into Carbon Nanofibers,... more

20 Jan 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #966 - Jan 13 2024

Dumbest Thing of the Week; News Items: Dual Sympathetic Response, Peregrine Moon Mission, Solar Eclipse, Boy Beats Tetris; Who's That... more

13 Jan 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #965 - Jan 6 2024

Psychic Predictions for 2023 and Rogue Predictions for 2024; News Items: Dosing Gene Expression, Solar Tower, Alzheimer's Virus, Quark Matter,... more

06 Jan 2024 ·
The Skeptics Guide #964 - Dec 30 2023

2023 Year in Review; Best Science of the Year; Best SGU Moments; Best Interviews; Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses of the... more

30 Dec 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #963 - Dec 23 2023

Special Guest: Eli Bosnick; Quickie with Steve: Iron Spheres are Terrestrial; News Items: Lunar Roads, Misinformation vs Disinformation, Gravitational Waves... more

23 Dec 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #962 - Dec 16 2023

Interview with Jessica McCabe of How to ADHD; Special Segment: Zelle Scams; News Items: Neuromorphic Supercomputer, Sodium Ion Batteries, Lab... more

16 Dec 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #961 - Dec 9 2023

Quickie with Bob: Ceramic Storage; News Items: Quantum Gravity, X-Prize for Health Span, ECT Effects on the Brain, Building New... more

09 Dec 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #960 - Dec 2 2023

News Items: Internet Use and Mental Health, Methane Capture, Bitter Revenge, Underground Microbes, PopSci Magazine Closes; Quickie with Steve: LK-99... more

02 Dec 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #959 - Nov 25 2023

What's the Word: Rugae; News Items: 3D Printing Soft Robots, First CRISPR Treatment Approved, Omicron Update, Lunar Library; Who's That... more

25 Nov 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #958 - Nov 18 2023

Special Guest: George Hrab; Swindler's List: Romance Scam; News Items: Whole Eye Transplant, Hottest Year on Record, Neutron Thickness, Hydrogen... more

18 Nov 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #957 - Nov 11 2023

Interview with James Burke; Dumbest Thing of the Week; News Items: ESA Plans Space Capsule, Oldest Evidence of Projective Weapons,... more

11 Nov 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #956 - Nov 4 2023

Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; DragonCon Panels: Skepticism and Gaming, Government Coverup of UAPs, Generation Ships; News Items: Augmented Reality Social... more

04 Nov 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #955 - Oct 28 2023

What's the Word: Benthic vs Pelagic; News Items: Age of the Moon, CVS and Homeopathy, Black Holes Do Spin, Paranormal... more

28 Oct 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #954 - Oct 21 2023

Swindler's List: The IT Scam; News Items: Driverless Cars, Dead Whale Mystery, Filtering Wildfire Air, New Law of Nature Proposed,... more

21 Oct 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #953 - Oct 14 2023

Interview with Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes from the Knowledge Fight podcast; Quickie with Bob: Solar Panels at Proxima Centauri;... more

14 Oct 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #952 - Oct 4 2023

Interview with Physicist Lars Martin; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics; Radio Telescope on the... more

07 Oct 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #951 - Sep 30 2023

Discussion about Misinformation; News Items: Zoom Backgrounds, Manifesting Fails, Tong Test of AGI, Looking for Service Worlds, NASA Recovers Asteroid... more

30 Sep 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #950 - Sep 23 2023

News Items: CAR-T Therapy, Martian Life, Oldest Wooden Structure, Mexican Alien Bodies, Signature of Life Found on Exoplanet; Who's That... more

23 Sep 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #949 - Sep 16 2023

Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; DragonCon 2023 Highlights; Robots of the Future; News Items: Exploding Batteries and Deorbiting Satellites, Dark Stars,... more

16 Sep 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #948 - Sep 9 2023

Interview with Anna Blakney; News Items: ChatGPT University Performance, Geothermal Energy, Failed Star, Doctor and NDEs; Who's That Noisy; Science... more

09 Sep 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #947 - Sep 2 2023

Live from Tucson with special guest George Hrab; Special Report: Death of P22; News Items: Toughest Metal, Eyewear from Coffee... more

30 Aug 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #946 - Aug 26 2023

News Items: Releasing Fukushima Radioactive Water, Online Gaming and Mental Health, Gradient Nanostructured Steel, Supernova and Neutrinos, Recent Lunar Missions;... more

26 Aug 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #945 - Aug 19 2023

News Items: Deep Space Network, Identifying Misinformation, Regret and Gender Affirming Care, Localizing Hidden Consciousness, Ice Baths; Who's That Noisy;... more

19 Aug 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #944 - Aug 12 2023

5-10 Year: Loch Ness; News Items: Depression Does Not Cause Cancer, Hidden Undersea World, AI vs Robo Calls, Cement Supercapacitor;... more

12 Aug 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #943 - Aug 5 2023

What's the Word: Mereology; News Items: Glass Coated DNA, How Deadly in Heat, Australian Psychics, Speech Deepfake,s; Special Report: Electric... more

05 Aug 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #942 - Jul 29 2023

Quickie With Steve: Another Alzheimer Drug; News Items: Can AI Learn Like Humans, Room Temperature Superconductor, A Galaxy Without Dark... more

29 Jul 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #941 - Jul 22 2023

News Items: Early Woodworking, Genetic Engineering to Fight Malaria, How We Determine What's True, Killing Bacteria, Nanopatch Pseudoscience; Your Questions... more

22 Jul 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #940 - Jul 15 2023

Special Guests: George Hrab and Andrea Jones Roy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Meteors and Alien Craft; News Items: Leqembi... more

15 Jul 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #939 - Jul 8 2023

Quickie with Bob: The Impossible Planet; News Items: Activity Late in Life, Hominid Cannibals, Aspartame and Cancer, FAA Approves Flying... more

08 Jul 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #938 - Jul 1 2023

What's The Word: Decussate; News Items: Ripples in Spacetime, Mars Simulation, Multimillion Dollar Psychic Scam, Who Is Most Susceptible to... more

01 Jul 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #937 - Jun 24 2023

News Items: Neuroforecasting, Coastal Erosion, Milky Way's Supermassive Blackhole, Aliens in Vegas, Alcohol Use Disorder; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions... more

24 Jun 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #936 - Jun 17 2023

Interview with David Kyle Johnson; News Items: Schizophrenia and Autoimmune Disease, 3D Printing Glass, Smoke Blocks Solar Power, Retooling Ribosome... more

17 Jun 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #935 - Jun 10 2023

Special Report: Canadian Fires and Global Warming; News Items: The Coming of AR, The Causes of Cultural Differences, Space Travel... more

10 Jun 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #934 - Jun 3 2023

Quickie with Bob: Brain Stimulation; News Items: Harvesting Energy from Air, Breakups and Hindsight Bias, AI Seance, Monster Stars; Your... more

03 Jun 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #933 - May 27 2023

Live Recording with special guest George Hrab; Quickie with Cara: New York is Sinking; News Items: Fourth Meal, Artemis Update,... more

27 May 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #932 - May 20 2023

News Items: Microsoft Signs Up For Fusion, Robot Helpers, DNA Everywhere, The Evolution of Butterflies, CO2 and Lab Grown Meat;... more

20 May 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #931 - May 13 2023

Quickie with Bob: Pangenome; News Items: Fake Studies, Germany and Nuclear Power, Moon Landing Hoax Again, Earth Viewed by Alien... more

13 May 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #930 - May 6 2023

Interview with Brian Brushwood; What's The Word: Catacoustics; News Items: AI Mind Reading, 10,000 steps per day, 30 Years of... more

06 May 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #929 - Apr 29 2023

News Items: Starship Launch, False Belief Systems, Ashwagandha and other Herbal Drugs, The Evolution of Eukaryotes, Blue Holes; Who's That... more

29 Apr 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #928 - Apr 22 2023

News Items: Starship Almost Launch, Information in Ancient Meteorites, Lunar Cycle and Suicide, Sharper MRI Images, Mummies and Taxes; Who's... more

22 Apr 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #927 - Apr 15 2023

Interview with Jon Bornstein of Amprius Technology; News Items: Dopamine Detox, Overprotection May Cause Anxiety, W-Boson Mass, No Health Benefits... more

15 Apr 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #926 - Apr 8 2023

Quickie with Bob: Quantum Random Numbers; News Items: Treating Infections Without Antibiotics, The Science of Clogging, New Kind of Black... more

08 Apr 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #925 - Apr 1 2023

Interview with Blake Lemoine; Quickie with Steve: Batteries with Double the Energy Density; News Items: Mammoth Meatball, Lunar Ice, First... more

01 Apr 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #924 - Mar 25 2023

What's the Word: Pleonasm; Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engine, Tik Tok and Misinformation, 3D Printed Rocket, Beethoven's Hair, Uranus Moons and Subsurface... more

25 Mar 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #923 - Mar 18 2023

Interview with Derek Muller from Veritasium; Update: Mask Wearing; News Items: New Lunar Space Suits, End of Life Care, GPT-4... more

18 Mar 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #922 - Mar 11 2023

Dumbest Thing of the Week: Feng Shui; News Items: Blood Test for Anxiety, Mars Sample Return, Dinosaur Color; Cosmic Rays... more

11 Mar 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #921 - Mar 4 2023

Guest Rogue: F Perry Wilson; Quickie with Bob: Ancient Steel; News Items: Mining Hydrogen, ChatGPT Update, Erythritol and Heart Disease,... more

04 Mar 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #920 - Feb 25 2023

Quickie with Steve: Serial Dependence Bias; News Items: 4-Day Work Week, Infants vs AI, Black Holes and Dark Energy, Ghost... more

25 Feb 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #919 - Feb 18 2023

Interview with Richard Wiseman; Quickie with Jay: Shooting Down UFOs; News Items: On Demand Male Contraceptive; Mask Update; Rogue Intergalactic... more

18 Feb 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #918 - Feb 11 2023

Quickie with Steve: Dwarf Planet Mystery Ring; News Items: Lucky Girl Syndrome, Best Satellite Material, AI and Technosignatures, Sleep Disorders... more

11 Feb 2023 ·
The Skeptics Guide #917 - Feb 4 2023

Quickie with Bob: Entanglement; News Items: Mummy Goo, Water Crisis and Climate Change, COVID Immunity, Bringing Back the Dodo, Fungal... more

04 Feb 2023 ·
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #925 - Apr 1 2023
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Interview with Blake Lemoine; Quickie with Steve: Batteries with Double the Energy Density; News Items: Mammoth Meatball, Lunar Ice, First Blitzar Observed,... more