Unexplainable

The magma chambers at the heart of volcanoes are very deep and very hot. So naturally, some researchers want to build an observatory in one. Guests: Mike Poland, scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory [https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/michael-poland]; Yan Lavallée, chair of magmatic petrology and volcanology [https://www.en.mineralogie.geowissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de/personen/chair/lavallee-yan/index.html] at LMU München and scientific and technical board member of the Krafla Magma Testbed [https://kmt.is/governance/]; John Eichelberger, volcanologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and founding scientist of KMT [https://kmt.is/] For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠ [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1bMXuLuyy3zTLCnblKVWUBq4Gd84PY8sG] For more, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠ [https://www.vox.com/unexplainable] And please email us! ⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠vox.com/members [https://www.vox.com/support-membership] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Rumors of Neanderthal brutishness have been greatly exaggerated. Guest: Paige Madison [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/evan.21918], science writer For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠ [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1bMXuLuyy3zTLCnblKVWUBq4Gd84PY8sG] For more, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable [https://www.vox.com/unexplainable]⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com [unexplainable@vox.com]⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠vox.com/members [https://www.vox.com/support-membership] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

What happens when you get a life-changing device implanted into your body... and then the company that maintains it goes bankrupt? Guests: Jennifer French, Executive Director and Founder of ⁠Neurotech Network⁠ [https://neurotechnetwork.org/], a nonprofit focused on education and advocacy for neurotechnology, and ⁠Liam Drew⁠ [https://www.liamdrew.net/about], freelance science journalist who reported on abandoned neurotech for ⁠Nature⁠ [https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html] For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠ [http://vox.com/unxtranscripts] For more, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠ [http://vox.com/unexplainable] And please email us! ⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠ [unexplainable@vox.com] We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠vox.com/members [http://vox.com/members] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Tens of thousands of lives could be saved each year if hospitals had more blood. So scientists are racing to understand how this living fluid does what it does in order to one day grow it from scratch. Guest: Nicola Twilley [https://www.nicolatwilley.com/bio/], New Yorker contributor and host of Gastropod [https://gastropod.com/].  For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscripts [http://vox.com/unxtranscripts] For more, go to vox.com/unexplainable [http://vox.com/unexplainable] And please email us! unexplainable@vox.com [unexplainable@vox.com] We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: vox.com/members [http://vox.com/members] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

We know life on Earth wouldn't be possible without the moon. Now scientists are finding the moon might even be influencing our biology on a molecular level. Guest: Rebecca Boyle [https://rebeccaboyle.com/], science journalist and author of Our Moon: How Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscripts [http://vox.com/unxtranscripts] For more, go to vox.com/unexplainable [http://vox.com/unexplainable] And please email us! unexplainable@vox.com [unexplainable@vox.com] We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: vox.com/members [http://vox.com/members] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]