Unexplainable
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 every Monday and Wednesday.
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The Unexplainable team includes Noam Hassenfeld, Byrd Pinkerton, Julia Longoria, Meradith Hoddinott, Cristian Ayala, and Jorge Just. The show is a production of the Vox Media Podcast Network.


A scientist explains the ethical and methodological pitfalls to avoid.

Sometimes there’s success in failure.

Dark matter, unexplained.

What we don’t know is awesome. Let us explain.

But with large-scale experiments, scientists around the world are determined to find out.

What 50-year-old dirty diapers can teach us about the potential origins of life on Earth.


Scientists hooked up 32 dead pig brains to a machine to revive them. And it worked.


One of the great mysteries of adult life — and psychology.

The discovery of human-Neanderthal mating is changing our understanding of what it means to be human.



