Carl Zimmer appears in the following:
Revenge of the Miasma
Friday, February 28, 2025
Death, disbelief and a watermelon doctor who disappears into thin air.
Guts
Friday, November 04, 2022
In this episode we will explore the grotesque tube slide inside all of us.
Looking for COVID-19's Origin Story
Thursday, May 27, 2021
NYT's Carl Zimmer discuss why the origin of COVID-19 is disputed.
The Challenges of Vaccine Distribution
Monday, November 16, 2020
Carl Zimmer discusses who might be at the top of the list for a COVID-19 vaccine from healthcare workers, to the elderly and minority communities as well as prisoners.
Creation Translation
Thursday, August 27, 2020
We all know DNA is the Book of Life, the recipe to make you you. But what if the story of us is really DNA's sidekick?
Never Quite Now
Friday, March 27, 2020
We keep missing the moment in the longest experiment in the world and find out "fast as thought" is not as fast as we thought.
Parasites
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe).
Science Is On It
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Science writer Carl Zimmer talks about the immense research effort in finding treatments for Covid-19.
Carl Zimmer Questions Heredity as We Know It
Monday, June 04, 2018
Science writer Carl Zimmer argues the need for a broader definition of heredity and uses recent scientific research to unpack bioethical quandaries.
Update: CRISPR
Friday, February 24, 2017
In 2012, scientists had a realization: hidden inside one of the world’s smallest organisms, was one of the world’s most powerful tools.
Carl Zimmer's 'Game of Genomes'
Monday, July 11, 2016
This is the story of one man's quest to learn literally everything about his body that science can tell him.
Shrink
Thursday, July 30, 2015
The definition of life is in flux, complexity is overrated, and humans are shrinking.
Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR
Saturday, June 06, 2015
In 2012, scientists had a realization: hidden inside one of the world’s smallest organisms, was one of the world’s most powerful tools.
Patient Zero - Updated
Thursday, November 13, 2014
The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center, Patient Zero. We hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.
Carl Zimmer on Giant Sandworms
Friday, July 04, 2014
The science writer Carl Zimmer was 10 years old when his family moved to rural New Jersey. He quickly made a new friend whose father was the prolific science fiction illustrator John ...
Carl Zimmer on Giant Sandworms
Friday, January 24, 2014
The science writer Carl Zimmer was 10 years old when his family moved to rural New Jersey. He quickly made a new friend whose father was the prolific science fiction illustrator J...
Black Box
Friday, January 17, 2014
We examine three very different kinds of black boxes—those peculiar spaces where it’s clear what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but what happens in-between is a mystery.
The Fastest Evolving Place on Earth
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Scientists recently determined that Páramos, small, high-elevation ecosystems in the Andes, are the fastest evolving places on earth. Science writer Carl Zimmer explains what makes these tiny mountainous enclaves—and their giant daisy trees—so diverse.
