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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.

Show transcripts.

Songs from the podcast.

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Ancient DNA is helping rewrite human historyAncient DNA is helping rewrite human history
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Science

A scientist explains the ethical and methodological pitfalls to avoid.

By Noam Hassenfeld and Byrd Pinkerton
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How an ill-fated undersea adventure in the 1960s changed the way scientists see the Earth
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Sometimes there’s success in failure.

By Byrd Pinkerton
Dark matter holds our universe together. No one knows what it is.
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Science

Dark matter, unexplained.

By Brian Resnick
Unexplainable: A new podcast about the most fascinating unanswered questions in science
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Science

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

By Brian Resnick
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Go right up to the edge of what we know … and then keep goingGo right up to the edge of what we know … and then keep going
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Extremely powerful cosmic rays are raining down on us. No one knows where they come from.
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Science

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

By Brian Resnick
Apollo astronauts left their poop on the moon. We gotta go back for that shit.
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Science

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

By Brian Resnick
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Scientists: We kept pig brains alive 10 hours after death. Bioethicists: “Holy shit.”Scientists: We kept pig brains alive 10 hours after death. Bioethicists: “Holy shit.”
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Science

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

By Brian Resnick
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Why your desk job is so damn exhaustingWhy your desk job is so damn exhausting
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Science

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

By Brian Resnick
Humans and Neanderthals had sex. But was it for love?
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Explainers

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

By Brian Resnick