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    The Amazing Extremophiles

    11/2/2026 | 26 mins.
    In the dark depths of the Gowanus Canal, strange lifeforms lurk...

    Guests: Brad Vogel, volunteer at the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club; Elizabeth Hénaff, computational biologist and artist at New York University

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    Everyone does it. Why can’t I?

    09/2/2026 | 39 mins.
    I’m about to burst.

    Guests: Laryngologist Dr. Robert Bastian and Noel King, co-host and editorial director of the Vox daily news podcast Today, Explained

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    Mysterious objects near the beginning of time

    04/2/2026 | 26 mins.
    Astronomers are putting together a new picture of the early universe. It involves a lot of very weird black holes, and it could help us understand how our own galaxy formed.

    Guest: Caitlin Casey, astronomer at UC Santa Barbara



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    Cloud atlas

    02/2/2026 | 29 mins.
    It’s surprisingly hard to predict how clouds form, move, and change, but it’s essential to try. Because how clouds react to a warming world helps determine how hot our future will be.

    Guests: Vox contributor Umair Irfan, scientists Scott M. Collis, Angeline Pendergrass, and author Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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    What's good sound?

    28/1/2026 | 26 mins.
    Every hand-crafted instrument from violin maker Michael Doran holds its own unexplainable questions.

    Guest: Michael Doran of Doran’s Violin’s

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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 Mondays and Wednesdays. From Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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