Molly Webster appears in the following:
Carbon
Thursday, March 25, 2021
A trip back to the Cold War, into the atmosphere, and inside our cells, where a very special type of carbon is helping to answer the question: how old are we?
Elements
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Scientists took about 300 years to lay out the Periodic Table into neat rows and columns. In one hour, we’re going to mess it all up.
Stuck in a Student Loan Relief Loophole
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The federal student loan relief included in the COVID aid legislation leaves millions of Americans out — including WNYC's own Molly Webster.
Dispatch 14: Covid Crystal Ball
Friday, March 12, 2021
On today’s episode, doctors witness the worldwide pandemic playing out in a single human body.
The Ceremony
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Today, paranoia sets in: we head to The Ceremony, the top-secret, three-day launch of a new currency, wizards and math included. Halfway through, something strange happens.
Dispatch 13: Challenge Trials
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Would you volunteer to get infected with COVID-19 to save someone’s life? Thousands of people already have.
Insomnia Line
Friday, September 25, 2020
It’s the dead of night, you’re wide awake. And you’re not alone. So we put a phone number on twitter, and spent all night talking to the sleepless among us.
Bringing Gamma Back, Again
Friday, September 11, 2020
What can flashing lights and an eerie reverberating sound do for the brain of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s? We update one of our favorite episodes.
Fungus Amungus
Friday, September 04, 2020
There’s a new bug popping up around the world. Or it might just be an old bug that finally met its moment.
Invisible Allies
Thursday, July 30, 2020
From the brightest star, to the most elemental particle, scientists are considering strange solutions for covid-19.
Dispatches from 1918
Friday, July 17, 2020
Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
Slippery Mystery
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
From a sound rising from a marsh in South Carolina to the estuaries of New York to the darkest part of the ocean, we go in search of the limits of human knowledge.
Dispatch 3: Shared Immunity
Friday, April 03, 2020
Could a century-old treatment become our best weapon in the fight against Covid-19?
Goo And You
Thursday, March 26, 2020
When producer Molly Webster peers inside a pupa, she witnesses some of the most complex biology happening on earth...and catches sight of an ancient question of change.
Super Cool
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Walter Murch (aka, the Godfather of The Godfather), joined by a team of scientists, leads us on what felt like the magical mystery tour of super cool science.
Right to be Forgotten
Friday, August 23, 2019
Today we find ourselves in a room in Cleveland, Ohio, where a group of journalists are challenging the way we think about newspapers—and ourselves.
Ice Cream Science, Online Language
Friday, July 26, 2019
Are you a fluent texter? We’ll talk with an internet linguist about how online communication has changed the way we write. Plus, the tasty science of your frozen desserts.
Anonymous Data, Birding Basics
Friday, July 26, 2019
A new study found that just 15 pieces of demographic data were enough to identify just about anyone. Plus, how beginner birders can find, identify, and appreciate them.
Gender Bias In Research Trials, Antarctica, Tornado Engineering
Friday, June 07, 2019
Why research trials should include both male and female lab rats. Plus, a trip to the longest ongoing climate record in Antarctica.
