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We eat apples in the summer and bananas in the winter, completely undermining the natural order of life. Beneath that seemingly-eternal freshness is a hidden world of 1400 BC drug use, hyperventilating spinach, nuclear submarine tech, and hidden hormones. lnk.to/radiolab!x

You and your brain are in a silent agreement to just... get along. Your eyes blink, your heart beats, while you're off thinking about other things. But, on the other side of that agreement, there's a strange and disorienting world tucked inside your brain. lnk.to/radiolab!x

Boston area peeps: Craving an hour of joy & connection this weekend? Join me and the Terrestrials crew for a live show for kids THIS SUNDAY at WBUR City Stage! Learn about a wild sea creature. Dance. Sing. Come say hi to us after the show. Tix here ci.ovationtix.com/35123/performa…

Radiolab’s love language is bird facts, so let me just say Happy fricking Valentines. “Quantum Birds,” wherever you pod. link.chtbl.com/radiolab?sid=l…

How do migrating birds navigate so well? A little bird might leave its nest up in Alaska and arrive on the same branch of the same tree in New Zealand year after year. It turns out, they might be upending the rules of space and time to make it happen. lnk.to/radiolab!x

Back by popular demand (ours not yours, but we hope you’ll be psyched about it too) we want to hear YOUR voices for a change! Would you read our credits?! Click the link and maybe you’ll hear your voice in the next Radiolab episode <3 radiolab.org/radiolab-read-…

Considering having kids? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU for a future episode! If you're down, please record a record a voice memo on your phone answering the questions below and send it to [email protected] with the subject line “GROWTH KIDS.”

THIS SATURDAY we are trying out something totally new: a Radiolab game show live in Los Angeles! The show is part-improv, part-museum exhibit live on stage, part-some goofy new thing that we think we just might have invented. You can RSVP for FREE here: bit.ly/3QzHNca

One hundred years ago a watermelon doctor had a theory that would have revolutionized our understanding of illness. But he disappeared into thin air just as his discoveries were taking off. Science journalist extraordinaire Carl Zimmer tells us the story. lnk.to/radiolab!x

Ruth Bader Ginsburg used a trojan horse, filled with frat boys and beer, to win a battle for gender equality. Listen to "Sex Appeal" here: lnk.to/radiolab!x

Our sister show for kids, Terrestrials, wants to hear from YOU!!! 🐸🤗

Our Producer Sarah Qari won not one, but TWO Gracie Awards for her work on our episode How Stockholm Stuck! Maybe you should go listen if you haven't heard it already. 😉 #TheGracies #TheGracies50

Are you a researcher or scientist who has recently lost funding for your work? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Please record a voice memo with: who you are, what you do, and what we stand to lose in the absence of your work. Send it to [email protected] with the subject "FUNDING."

Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we? We partnered with Planet Money to take stock of the raw materials that enable us to live as we do here on Earth—everything from sand to copper to oil—and tally up how much we have left. bit.ly/4coZS7e

We have a live show at Caveat in NYC this month! 🌟 Our host Lulu Miller and correspondent Dr. Avir Mitra will uncover how alien sugars in breast milk led to a groundbreaking revelation—and the discovery of one of humanity’s oldest friendships. Tickets: bit.ly/3E0d45J

Entomologist Martha Weiss got a letter from a boy in Japan saying he wanted to replicate her famous study. Their correspondence set in motion a series of spectacular events that raise big questions about memory, permanence, and transformation. Listen here: lnk.to/radiolab!x

HEY NYC!!!! We have just a few tickets left for our live show: Viscera, The Elixir of Life. The show is next week, April 22, and WE’RE SO EXCITED ABOUT IT! Grab tickets before we sell out: bit.ly/3E0d45J 🎟️🎟️🎟️ See ya there Avir Mitra

Scientists discovered a tiny worm living in boiling hot water. Years later, that discovery changed the trajectory of modern science. As the Trump administration slashes research budgets, we tell a parable about unforeseeable miracles from basic research. bit.ly/49OIwPN

Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. YouTube does it for all our videos. Our phones do it in real time. It’s frictionless. But if it weren’t for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still be impossible. bit.ly/4kHPOJ5

This week: An ancient, symbiotic relationship that might be on the verge of disappearing. Emergency room doctor Avir Mitra takes us on a global hunt from Bangladesh to the Mennonite communities in the US, to uncover a mystery in breast milk. Listen here: lnk.to/radiolab!x