The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality - Produced by SGU Productions, LLC: https://www.theskepticsguide.org

Episodes (50)

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1051 - Aug 30 2025

August 30, 2025 Unknown length
Why Didn't I Know This: First Portable Computer; News Items: Brightest Fast Radio Burst, Trash into Biochar, Declining Reading Rates, Most Americans Skeptical of Paranormal, Quantum Alternative to...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1050 - Aug 23 2025

August 23, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Steve: Using Fusion to Make Gold; News Items: Older Americans Using AI, Semi-Solid State EV, Ad Hominem Attacks Online, Non-Surgical LASIK, Now 3I-ATLAS is Glowing; Who's That Noisy; Your...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1049 - Aug 16 2025

August 16, 2025 Unknown length
News Items: Jim Lovell Dies at 97, Music Anhedonia, Lithium and Alzheimer's, CHAT GPT-5, Dangerous Worm Cleanse; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mini Nuclear Reactors; Who Am I; Science...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1048 - Aug 9 2025

August 09, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Water from Air; News Items: Depleted Uranium Batteries, Russia Earthquake and Volcanoes, New Shroud of Turin Analysis, Web of Space; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Powder, Lab...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1047 - Aug 2 2025

August 02, 2025 Unknown length
From TikTok: More on 3I/Atlas and Aliens; News Items: Artery Calcium Scan, Microwave Beam for Geothermal Drilling, World's Largest Cargo Plane, Dental Floss Vaccine; Your Questions and E-mails: Apes...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1046 - Jul 26 2025

July 26, 2025 Unknown length
What's the Word: Fossil Words; News Items: New Supermaterial, Avi Loeb and the Alien Hypothesis, Belly Fat Jab, Hormone Therapy, Death by Haunted Doll; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1045 - Jul 19 2025

July 19, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Weird Exoplanet; News Items: Voyager Thrusters Brought Back to Life, Space Tourism, Global Temperature and Ice Sheet Melting, Robots Learn Physical Tasks 60 Times Faster, Most...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1044 - Jul 12 2025

July 12, 2025 Unknown length
Dumbest Word of the Week: Orthomolecular; News Items: Ban Left Turns, Bird Flu Shenanigans, Interstellar Comet, Artificial Blood, Beekeeping Benefits; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1043 - Jul 5 2025

July 05, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Quantum Electronics; News Items: AI Research Collaborators, AI Carbon Footprint, Curing Deafness, Food Myths, AI Enzyme Engineering; Who's That Noisy; Why Didn't I Know This: The...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1042 - Jun 28 2025

June 28, 2025 Unknown length
What's the Word: Eco; News Items: Vaccinating the World, How Children vs AI Acquire Language, Vera Rubin Observatory, Visible Nova, Effects of Chat GPT on the Brain; Who's That Noisy; Name That...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1041 - Jun 21 2025

June 21, 2025 Unknown length
Guest Rogue: Justin Daab; From TikTok: Mysterious Moon; News Items: Scopes 100 Year Anniversary, Smells and Hunger, GMOs May Save Florida Citrus, Black Hole Supercollider, Antarctica Radio Pulses;...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1040 - Jun 14 2025

June 14, 2025 Unknown length
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Premium Water; News Items: NASA Budget, RFK Jr Sacks Vaccine Panel, Digital Life After Death, Light Out of Nothing, Possible New Treatment for HIV; Who's That Noisy; Your...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1039 - Jun 7 2025

June 07, 2025 Unknown length
Interview with Emily Schoerning; Quickie with Bob: Prepping for Q-Day; News Items: Seed Oils, Lead into Gold, American Lysenkoism, The Screwworm is Coming, Galactic Collision; Who's That Noisy; Your...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1038 - May 31 2025

May 31, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Steve: Global Warming and Ocean Currents; News Items: Infrared Contact Lenses, Trees Respond to Solar Eclipse, Affective Polarization, The Brain's Motor Switchboard, New Dwarf Planet...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1037 - May 24 2025

May 24, 2025 Unknown length
Live from NotACon with Guest Rogue Adam Russell; News Items: New Cambrian Fossil, Best Archaeopteryx Specimen, Chimps Using First Aid, Treatment for Baldness, New Color - Olo, The Next Theranos,...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1036 - May 17 2025

May 17, 2025 Unknown length
Dumbest Word of the Week: Moxibustion; News Items: Cold Plunges, The End of Life, Floating Nuclear Power, Visualizing Special Relativity, Brainspotting Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1035 - May 10 2025

May 10, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Fusion Rockets; News Items: Falling Space Debris, What Makes People Flourish, Pig Heart Xenografts, Chiropractic Stroke, Breathable Algae Drug Delivery; Who's That Noisy; Your...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1034 - May 3 2025

May 03, 2025 Unknown length
Interview with Melanie Trecek-King; News Items: Internet Fakes and Violence, Lab Grown Teeth, RFK On Autism, AI Designed Instruments; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Big Bang Miracle;...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1033 - Apr 26 2025

April 26, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Steve: Game Transfer Phenomenon; Geoengineering, Biosignature Candidate, Skull Rock on Mars; Commercial Perovskite Solar Panels; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Another...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1032 - Apr 19 2025

April 19, 2025 Unknown length
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Turned to Stone; News Items: Where Did Earth's Water Come From, EPA Data on Emissions, Is Your Red My Red, Evolution of Complex Life, Crow Math Skills; Who's That Noisy;...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1031 - Apr 12 2025

April 12, 2025 Unknown length
TikTok Flat Earthers; News Items: De-extincting the Dire Wolf, What Experts Think About AI, Planned Obsolescence, VR Touch Sensory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: SNPs vs Sequencing;...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1030 - Apr 5 2025

April 05, 2025 Unknown length
What's the Word: enantiodromia; News Items: AI Protein Sequencing, Solving the Bat Cocktail Party Problem, The Extremely Large Telescope, CIA and the Ark of the Covenant, 23&Me Selling Personal...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1029 - Mar 29 2025

March 29, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Extinction Survivors; News Items: Constructed Languages, Exercise and Brain Health, Curiosity Rover Finds Long Carbon Chains, Nanotech Lightsails, Vaccine and Autism Again; Who's...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1028 - Mar 22 2025

March 19, 2025 Unknown length
Interview with Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello; News Items: NASA Delays Artemis, Punishing AI, Hybrid Bionic Hand, Pettawatt Electron Beam; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Rewriting...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1027 - Mar 15 2025

March 15, 2025 Unknown length
Interview with Professor Dave; What's the Word: Psionic; News Items: Screen Time and Mental Health, Exposure to Mass Shootings, Stem Cells for Parkinson's, Brown Fat and Exercise; Who's That Noisy;...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1026 - Mar 8 2025

March 05, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Atlantic Shutdown; News Items: Measles Outbreak, Reintroducing Wolves, TIGR-Tas Gene Editing, Blood Donor Who Saved Millions Dies, Star Mergers; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1025 - Mar 1 2025

March 01, 2025 Unknown length
Interview with Adam Russell; News Items: Congestion Pricing, AI Therapists, Redefining Dyslexia, Small Modular Reactors for Cargo Ships; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1024 - Feb 22 2025

February 22, 2025 Unknown length
News Items: Bird Brains, Indoor Air Quality, Abortions and Infant Mortality, Black Holes Without Singularities, Banning Chemtrails; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Asteroid Hitting the...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1023 - Feb 15 2025

February 15, 2025 Unknown length
News Items: Demographics of Misinformation, The Toll of Fake Research, Dangerous Street Drugs, Nearby Habitable Zone Exoplanet, Reverse Engineering Alien TechnologyWho's That Noisy; Science Quiz; Your...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1022 - Feb 8 2025

February 08, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie With Bob: Using Nukes to Deflect Asteroids; News Items: Near Earth Asteroid Threat, Does the Internet Affect Our Memory, Growing City Rat Problem, Do Apes Have a Theory of Mind, NASA...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1021 - Feb 1 2025

February 01, 2025 Unknown length
What's the Word: Geyser; News Items: Self Replicating AI, DeepSeek, PEPFAR Freeze, Chemical Looping, Giant Clams and Tiny Algae; Who's That Noisy; You Questions and E-mails: Telepathy Tapes; Science...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1020 - Jan 25 2025

January 25, 2025 Unknown length
Guest Rogue Andrea Jones Rooy; News Items: Unexpected Scientific Results, Trust In Scientists, Red Dye #3, Andromeda Mosaic, Telepathy Tapes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1019 - Jan 18 2025

January 18, 2025 Unknown length
Interview with Nick Tiller, News Items: Does Fact-Checking Work, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, The LA Fires, Building Materials for Storing Carbon; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1018 - Jan 11 2025

January 11, 2025 Unknown length
Quickie with Steve: Primate Twins: News Items: Mars Sample Return, Unique Glacial Microbiomes, Transatlantic Tunnel, Alcohol Advisory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Flu Vaccine,...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1017 - Jan 4 2025

January 04, 2025 Unknown length
Psychic Predictions 2024; News Items: Space Exploration in 2025, Emerging Diseases, Dark Energy May Not Exist, Bigfoot Deaths; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fusion Energy, In Memoriam...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1016 - Dec 28 2024

December 28, 2024 Unknown length
2024 Year End Review; Best of 2024; Science Hero and Jackass of the Year; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction
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The Skeptics Guide #1015 - Dec 21 2024

December 21, 2024 Unknown length
Live from Washington DC; News Items: The Science of Tipping, JonBenet Ramsey Case, Primordial Black Holes, Oldest Alphabet, Food Distribution, Goop Spiral; Live Q&A Science or Fiction
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The Skeptics Guide #1014 - Dec 14 2024

December 14, 2024 Unknown length
Interview with Noah Lugeons; News Items: Have We Achieved AGI, Coming Bird Flu, Weekend Warrior Exercise, Theoretical Technosignature, Simulation Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails:...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1013 - Dec 7 2024

December 07, 2024 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Atomic Scale Precision; News Items: Innate Morality, New Space Station, Climate Hot Spots, Orcas Wearing Hats, Evidence Against Water on Venus; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1012 - Nov 30 2024

November 30, 2024 Unknown length
Interview with Andrea Love; News Items: Near Earth Microquasars, How to Watch Research Misconduct, Genetically Modifying Brains, Largest Prime Number, Magic Amulets, Atlantic Current Climate Tipping...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1011 - Nov 23 2024

November 23, 2024 Unknown length
Interview with Kevin Folta; News Items: Sense of Self in Robots, New Energy Secretary, Finding Planet Nine, Stress and Paranormal Belief; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dumb Idioms;...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1010 - Nov 16 2024

November 16, 2024 Unknown length
Interview with Michael Mann; Quickie with Evan: Banning Magic; News Items: Armed Police in Schools, Training Surgical Robots, New Imaging Technique, Physician Misinformation; Who's That Noisy; Your...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1009 - Nov 9 2024

November 09, 2024 Unknown length
Interview with Brian Cox; Quickie with Bob: Superheavy Element Chemistry; News Items: Biogenome Project, Ancient Solar Magnetic Field, MAHA, Miranda Ocean, Club 27 Myth; Who's That Noisy; Science or...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1008 - Nov 2 2024

November 02, 2024 Unknown length
Quickie with Bob: Predicting Earthquakes; News Items: Cell Phones and Brain Cancer, Gold from Earthquakes, Plastic in the Brain, Quantum Neural Network, Marmosets have Names; Your questions and...
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The Skeptics Guide #1007 - Oct 26 2024

October 26, 2024 Unknown length
What's the Word: Annular; News Items: Europa Clipper, Illusion of Information Adequacy, Seeding the Atmosphere, Exomoon, Psychology of Scare; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Replaceable...
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The Skeptics Guide #1006 - Oct 19 2024

October 19, 2024 Unknown length
Interview with Christian Hubicki; From TikTok: Fake Spacestation; News Items: AI Common Sense, Malnutrition in Africa, Latest Starship Launch, New Metasurface, Exomoon; Who's That Noisy; Your...
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The Skeptics Guide #1005 - Oct 12 2024

October 12, 2024 Unknown length
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Dumbest Thing of the Week: Loch Ness Sonar; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physiology...
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The Skeptics Guide #1004 - Oct 5 2024

October 05, 2024 Unknown length
Check out Surfshark https://surfshark.com/sgu, Quickie with Bob: Lunar Mantle Partially Molten; News Items: Heart Function in Space, Schizophrenia Drug, Wood Vaulting, AI Finds Nazca Lines, LISA...
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The Skeptics Guide #1003 - Sep 28 2024

September 28, 2024 Unknown length
Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones Roy; What's the Word: Pitch; News Items: Crystal Genome Storage, How Reliable are Political Forecasts, Myopia Epidemic, Biotwang Explained; Who's That Noisy; Science or...
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The Skeptics Guide #1002 - Sep 21 2024

September 21, 2024 Unknown length
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Quickie with Steve: Minimoon; News Items: Dead Internet Theory, Classroom CRISPR, CAM Market, ADHD Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and...

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