Radiolab
Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.
Episodes (500)
This American Roach
May 29, 2026
Worth
May 22, 2026
Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms
May 15, 2026
The Bad Show
May 8, 2026
What is a Pig Worth?
May 1, 2026
Forests on Forests
Apr 24, 2026
The Resistance of a Cow
Apr 17, 2026
The Builders
Apr 10, 2026
Life in a Barrel
Apr 3, 2026
Antibiotic Apocalypse
Mar 27, 2026
Staph Retreat
Mar 20, 2026
Return of the Flesh-Eaters
Mar 13, 2026
Snail Sex Tape
Mar 6, 2026
Black Box
Feb 27, 2026
Gray's Donation
Feb 20, 2026
Time is Honey
Feb 13, 2026
Kleptotherms
Feb 6, 2026
Song of the Cerebellum
Jan 30, 2026
You and Me and Mr. Self-Esteem
Jan 23, 2026
The Punchline
Jan 16, 2026
Brain Balls
Jan 9, 2026
Moon Trees
Jan 2, 2026
Fertility Cliff
Dec 26, 2025
The Good Show
Dec 19, 2025
The Alien in the Room
Dec 12, 2025
Shell Game: Minimum Viable Company
Dec 5, 2025
Fela Kuti: Enter the Shrine
Nov 28, 2025
Our Common Nature: West Virginia Coal
Nov 21, 2025
Quantum Refuge
Nov 14, 2025
The Wubi Effect
Nov 7, 2025
The Glow Below
Oct 31, 2025
What Up Holmes?
Oct 24, 2025
Content Warning
Oct 17, 2025
Creation Story
Oct 10, 2025
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
Oct 3, 2025
Voice
Sep 26, 2025
The Spark of Life
Sep 19, 2025
Los Frikis
Sep 12, 2025
Screaming Into the Void
Sep 5, 2025
Music Hat
Aug 29, 2025
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
Aug 22, 2025
Weighing Good Intentions
Aug 15, 2025
The Menopause Mystery
Aug 8, 2025
Galaxy Quenching
Aug 1, 2025
The Nothing Behind Everything
Jul 25, 2025
More Perfect: The Hate Debate
Jul 18, 2025
Desperately Seeking Symmetry
Jul 11, 2025
On [The Divided Dial]: Fishing In The Night
Jul 4, 2025
Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud
Jun 27, 2025
Baby Shark
Jun 20, 2025
Mystery Bay
Jun 19, 2025
The Shark Inside You
Jun 18, 2025
The Cage
Jun 17, 2025
Making a Monster
Jun 16, 2025
It's Like ... Radiolab
Jun 14, 2025
Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks
Jun 13, 2025
Double-Blasted
Jun 13, 2025
The Elixir of Life
Jun 6, 2025
A Flock of Two
May 30, 2025
The Echo in the Machine
May 23, 2025
How to Cure What Ails You
May 16, 2025
The First Known Earthly Voice
May 9, 2025
Terrestrials: The Snow Beast
May 2, 2025
The Age of Aquaticus
Apr 25, 2025
Ghosts in the Green Machine
Apr 18, 2025
Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow
Apr 11, 2025
Killer Empathy
Apr 4, 2025
Malthusian Swerve
Mar 28, 2025
Everybody's Got One
Mar 21, 2025
Growth
Mar 14, 2025
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Mar 7, 2025
Revenge of the Miasma
Feb 28, 2025
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Feb 21, 2025
Quantum Birds
Feb 14, 2025
Vertigogo
Feb 7, 2025
Forever Fresh
Jan 31, 2025
Nukes
Jan 24, 2025
The Darkest Dark
Jan 17, 2025
Smarty Plants
Jan 10, 2025
Match Made in Marrow
Jan 3, 2025
Probing Where the Sun Does Shine: A Holiday Special
Dec 24, 2024
Curiosity Killed the Adage
Dec 20, 2024
Dark Side of the Earth
Dec 13, 2024
How Stockholm Stuck
Dec 6, 2024
Less Than Kilogram
Nov 29, 2024
Science Vs: The Funniest Joke in the World
Nov 22, 2024
Hello
Nov 15, 2024
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain
Nov 8, 2024
Haunted
Oct 31, 2024
The Unpopular Vote
Oct 25, 2024
Tweak the Vote
Oct 18, 2024
Why Don't Sex Scandals Matter Anymore?
Oct 11, 2024
Terrestrials: Stumpisode
Oct 4, 2024
Octomom
Sep 27, 2024
A Little Pompeiian Fish Sauce Goes a Long Way
Sep 20, 2024
The Times They Are a-Changin'
Sep 13, 2024
Shell Game
Sep 6, 2024
Big Little Questions
Aug 30, 2024
Uneasy as ABC
Aug 23, 2024
More Perfect: The Gun Show
Aug 16, 2024
Up in Smoke
Aug 9, 2024
Sleep
Aug 2, 2024
Terrestrials: The Trio
Jul 26, 2024
Lose Lose
Jul 19, 2024
How to Save a Life
Jul 12, 2024
Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks
Jul 5, 2024
The Alford Plea
Jun 28, 2024
Birdie in the Cage
Jun 21, 2024
Aphantasia
Jun 14, 2024
Argentine Invasion
May 31, 2024
Mixtapes to the Moon
May 24, 2024
Lucy
May 17, 2024
Selected Shorts
May 10, 2024
Memory and Forgetting
Apr 26, 2024
Small Potatoes
Apr 19, 2024
The Distance of the Moon
Apr 12, 2024
The Moon Itself
Apr 5, 2024
Short Cuts: Drawn Onward
Apr 2, 2024
Finding Emilie
Mar 22, 2024
Throughline: Dare to Dissent
Mar 15, 2024
Staph Retreat
Mar 8, 2024
Hold On
Mar 1, 2024
G: The World's Smartest Animal
Feb 16, 2024
Cheating Death
Feb 9, 2024
Breaking Newsve About Zoozve
Feb 5, 2024
G: Relative Genius
Feb 2, 2024
Zoozve
Jan 26, 2024
The Living Room
Jan 19, 2024
Our Little Stupid Bodies
Jan 12, 2024
Stochasticity
Jan 5, 2024
Zeroworld
Dec 29, 2023
Numbers
Dec 22, 2023
Death Interrupted
Dec 15, 2023
A 4-Track Mind
Dec 8, 2023
Boy Man
Dec 1, 2023
Shrink
Nov 24, 2023
The Interstitium
Nov 17, 2023
Funky Hand Jive
Nov 10, 2023
Toy Soldiers
Nov 3, 2023
Border Trilogy Part 3: What Remains
Oct 27, 2023
Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line
Oct 20, 2023
Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence
Oct 13, 2023
The Secret to a Long Life
Oct 6, 2023
Poison Control
Sep 29, 2023
Smog Cloud Silver Lining
Sep 22, 2023
Driverless Dilemma
Sep 15, 2023
Born This Way?
Sep 8, 2023
Touch at a Distance
Sep 1, 2023
Rumble Strip: Finn and the Bell
Aug 25, 2023
The Wubi Effect
Aug 18, 2023
The Internet Dilemma
Aug 11, 2023
Right to be Forgotten
Aug 4, 2023
Little Black Holes Everywhere
Jul 28, 2023
The Right Stuff
Jul 21, 2023
The Fellowship of the Tree Rings
Jul 14, 2023
Man Against Horse
Jul 7, 2023
The Cataclysm Sentence
Jun 30, 2023
Americanish
Jun 23, 2023
Beware the Sand Striker
Jun 16, 2023
Eye in the Sky
Jun 9, 2023
The Seagulls
Jun 2, 2023
On the Edge
May 26, 2023
Family People
May 19, 2023
The War on Our Shore
May 12, 2023
Ologies: Dark Matters
May 5, 2023
The Golden Rule
Apr 28, 2023
Corpse Demon
Apr 21, 2023
Abortion Pills, Take Two
Apr 14, 2023
The Library of Alexandra
Apr 7, 2023
The Good Samaritan
Mar 31, 2023
Alone Enough
Mar 24, 2023
Apologetical
Mar 17, 2023
Buttons Not Buttons
Mar 10, 2023
Crabs All the Way Down
Mar 3, 2023
The Trust Engineers
Feb 24, 2023
Golden Goose
Feb 17, 2023
Bliss
Feb 10, 2023
Ukraine: The Handoff
Feb 3, 2023
Birthstory
Jan 27, 2023
Ukraine: Under the Counter
Jan 20, 2023
Games
Jan 13, 2023
Universe In Verse
Jan 6, 2023
New Normal
Dec 30, 2022
The Flight Before Christmas
Dec 23, 2022
Null and Void
Dec 16, 2022
The Middle of Everything Ever
Dec 9, 2022
The Ashes on the Lawn
Dec 2, 2022
More Perfect: The Political Thicket
Nov 25, 2022
What's Up Doc?
Nov 18, 2022
Butt Stuff
Nov 11, 2022
Guts
Nov 4, 2022
The Weather Report
Oct 28, 2022
Black Box
Oct 21, 2022
No-Touch Abortion
Oct 14, 2022
The Theater of David Byrne's Mind
Oct 7, 2022
Playing God
Sep 30, 2022
Terrestrials: The Mastermind
Sep 23, 2022
Quicksaaaand!
Sep 16, 2022
40,000 Recipes for Murder
Sep 9, 2022
Rodney v. Death
Sep 2, 2022
Gigaverse
Aug 26, 2022
9-Volt Nirvana
Aug 19, 2022
Infinities
Aug 12, 2022
Escape
Aug 5, 2022
The Humpback and the Killer
Jul 29, 2022
You v. You
Jul 22, 2022
The Gatekeeper
Jul 15, 2022
Baby Blue Blood Drive
Jul 8, 2022
My Thymus, Myself
Jul 1, 2022
Galápagos
Jun 24, 2022
No Special Duty
Jun 17, 2022
Neanderthal's Revenge
Jun 10, 2022
Origin Stories
Jun 3, 2022
Radiolab After Dark
May 27, 2022
La Mancha Screwjob
May 20, 2022
Frailmales
May 13, 2022
Debatable
May 6, 2022
Hello, My Name Is
Apr 29, 2022
The Other Latif: Cuba-ish
Apr 22, 2022
NULL
Apr 15, 2022
In the Dust of This Planet
Apr 8, 2022
Inheritance
Apr 1, 2022
The Right Stuff
Mar 25, 2022
Stress
Mar 18, 2022
The Helen Keller Exorcism
Mar 11, 2022
Life in a Barrel
Mar 4, 2022
Speed
Feb 25, 2022
The Wordless Place
Feb 18, 2022
Hello
Feb 11, 2022
Forests on Forests
Feb 4, 2022
The First Radiolab
Jan 28, 2022
The 11th: A Letter From George
Jan 21, 2022
Darkode
Jan 14, 2022
Worst. Year. Ever.
Jan 7, 2022
Flop Off
Dec 31, 2021
Vanishing Words
Dec 17, 2021
Return of Alpha Gal
Dec 10, 2021
Animal Minds
Nov 26, 2021
Mixtape: Help?
Nov 19, 2021
Mixtape: Cassetternet
Nov 12, 2021
Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
Nov 5, 2021
Mixtape: Jack and Bing
Oct 29, 2021
Mixtape: Dakou
Oct 22, 2021
Of Bombs and Butterflies
Oct 15, 2021
Oliver Sipple
Oct 1, 2021
HEAVY METAL
Sep 24, 2021
In the Running
Sep 17, 2021
60 Words, 20 Years
Sep 10, 2021
The Unsilencing
Aug 26, 2021
Everybody’s Got One
Aug 20, 2021
Gonads: Dutee
Aug 6, 2021
The Queen of Dying
Jul 23, 2021
Breaking News about The Other Latif
Jul 19, 2021
G: Unfit
Jul 15, 2021
The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 6
Jul 9, 2021
The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 5
Jul 2, 2021
The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 4
Jun 29, 2021
The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 3
Jun 26, 2021
The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 2
Jun 19, 2021
The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 1
Jun 18, 2021
Breath
Jun 11, 2021
The Rhino Hunter
May 27, 2021
The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub
May 21, 2021
Brown Box
May 13, 2021
Kleptotherms
May 5, 2021
Deep Cuts
Apr 22, 2021
The Septendecennial Sing-Along
Apr 15, 2021
What Up Holmes?
Apr 2, 2021
Elements
Mar 25, 2021
Escapescape
Mar 19, 2021
Dispatch 14: Covid Crystal Ball
Mar 12, 2021
The Ceremony
Feb 25, 2021
Red Herring
Feb 19, 2021
Facebook's Supreme Court
Feb 12, 2021
Smile My Ass
Jan 29, 2021
Post Reports: Four Hours of Insurrection
Jan 16, 2021
More Money Less Problems
Jan 15, 2021
Sight Unseen
Jan 13, 2021
A Terrible Covid Christmas Special
Dec 23, 2020
The Ashes on the Lawn
Dec 18, 2020
Enemy of Mankind
Dec 10, 2020
The Great Vaccinator
Dec 3, 2020
Dispatch 13: Challenge Trials
Nov 25, 2020
Deception
Nov 19, 2020
Breaking Benford
Nov 13, 2020
Bloc Party
Nov 2, 2020
How to Win Friends and Influence Baboons
Oct 31, 2020
What If?
Oct 23, 2020
Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer
Oct 8, 2020
No Special Duty
Oct 2, 2020
Insomnia Line
Sep 25, 2020
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Sep 19, 2020
Falling
Sep 17, 2020
Bringing Gamma Back, Again
Sep 11, 2020
Fungus Amungus
Sep 4, 2020
Translation
Aug 27, 2020
Lebanon, USA
Aug 21, 2020
The Wubi Effect
Aug 14, 2020
Uncounted
Aug 7, 2020
Invisible Allies
Jul 31, 2020
Baby Blue Blood Drive
Jul 24, 2020
Dispatches from 1918
Jul 17, 2020
The Flag and the Fury
Jul 12, 2020
The Third. A TED Talk.
Jun 25, 2020
Post No Evil Redux
Jun 19, 2020
The Liberation of RNA
Jun 13, 2020
Graham
Jun 7, 2020
Nina
Jun 6, 2020
Dispatch 6: Strange Times
May 29, 2020
Speedy Beet
May 22, 2020
Octomom
May 15, 2020
Why Fish Don't Exist
May 13, 2020
David and Dominique
May 8, 2020
Dispatch 5: Don't Stop Believin'
May 6, 2020
Atomic Artifacts
Apr 24, 2020
The Cataclysm Sentence
Apr 18, 2020
Dispatch 4: Six Feet
Apr 11, 2020
Space
Apr 6, 2020
Dispatch 3: Shared Immunity
Apr 3, 2020
Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
Apr 1, 2020
Dispatch 1: Numbers
Mar 27, 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 6
Mar 17, 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 5
Mar 6, 2020
The Other Latif: Bonus Episode!
Mar 3, 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 4
Feb 25, 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 3
Feb 18, 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 2
Feb 11, 2020
The Other Latif: Episode 1
Feb 4, 2020
The Bobbys
Jan 31, 2020
Body Count
Jan 24, 2020
60 Words
Jan 7, 2020
Man Against Horse
Dec 28, 2019
There and Back Again
Dec 18, 2019
Things
Dec 12, 2019
Breaking Bongo
Nov 27, 2019
Breaking News
Nov 19, 2019
Dolly Parton's America: Neon Moss
Nov 8, 2019
Songs that Cross Borders
Oct 30, 2019
Birdie in the Cage
Oct 23, 2019
Radiolab Presents: Dolly Parton's America
Oct 16, 2019
Silky Love
Sep 27, 2019
Tit for Tat
Sep 17, 2019
What's Left When You're Right?
Sep 5, 2019
The Memory Palace
Aug 28, 2019
Right to be Forgotten
Aug 23, 2019
More Perfect: Cruel and Unusual
Aug 9, 2019
G: The World's Smartest Animal
Jul 30, 2019
G: Unnatural Selection
Jul 26, 2019
G: Relative Genius
Jun 28, 2019
G: Problem Space
Jun 14, 2019
G: The Miseducation of Larry P
Jun 7, 2019
Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Jun 4, 2019
The Good Samaritan
May 24, 2019
Bit Flip
May 8, 2019
Dinopocalypse Redux
May 3, 2019
Fu-Go
Apr 25, 2019
Americanish
Apr 19, 2019
For Whom the Cowbell Tolls
Mar 29, 2019
Bliss
Mar 21, 2019
Asking for Another Friend
Mar 8, 2019
Asking for a Friend
Mar 1, 2019
Loops
Feb 22, 2019
The Beauty Puzzle
Feb 8, 2019
The Punchline
Jan 16, 2019
BONUS: Radiolab Scavenger Hunt
Dec 28, 2018
A Clockwork Miracle
Dec 27, 2018
Apologetical
Dec 21, 2018
UnErased: Smid
Nov 28, 2018
UnErased: Dr. Davison and the Gay Cure
Nov 22, 2018
The Front Runner
Nov 13, 2018
Tweak the Vote
Nov 5, 2018
War of the Worlds
Oct 30, 2018
In the No Part 3
Oct 26, 2018
In the No Part 2
Oct 19, 2018
In the No Part 1
Oct 11, 2018
Breaking Bad News Bears
Sep 28, 2018
Infective Heredity
Sep 21, 2018
27: The Most Perfect Album
Sep 19, 2018
Post No Evil
Aug 17, 2018
The Bad Show
Jul 28, 2018
Gonads: Sex Ed
Jul 27, 2018
Gonads: Dana
Jul 22, 2018
Gonads: X & Y
Jun 30, 2018
Gonads: Fronads
Jun 23, 2018
Gonads: The Primordial Journey
Jun 15, 2018
Birthstory
Jun 8, 2018
Poison Control
Jun 1, 2018
Unraveling Bolero
May 22, 2018
More or Less Human
May 18, 2018
Dark Side of the Earth
Apr 26, 2018
Border Trilogy Part 3: What Remains
Apr 20, 2018
Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line
Apr 6, 2018
Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence
Mar 23, 2018
Rippin’ the Rainbow an Even Newer One
Mar 15, 2018
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show
Feb 23, 2018
The Curious Case of the Russian Flash Mob at the West Palm Beach Cheesecake Factory
Feb 20, 2018
Smarty Plants
Feb 14, 2018
Ghosts of Football Past
Feb 4, 2018
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - One Nation, Under Money
Jan 31, 2018
The Voice in Your Head - A Tribute to Joe Frank
Jan 23, 2018
How to Be a Hero
Jan 9, 2018
Bigger Little Questions
Dec 22, 2017
Big Little Questions
Dec 20, 2017
Super Cool
Dec 5, 2017
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - Mr. Graham and the Reasonable Man
Nov 30, 2017
Stereothreat
Nov 23, 2017
Match Made in Marrow
Nov 10, 2017
Oliver Sacks: A Journey From Where to Where
Oct 27, 2017
Father K
Oct 13, 2017
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - American Pendulum I
Oct 2, 2017
Driverless Dilemma
Sep 26, 2017
Oliver Sipple
Sep 22, 2017
Radiolab Presents: Anna in Somalia
Sep 12, 2017
Where the Sun Don't Shine
Aug 23, 2017
Revising the Fault Line
Jun 27, 2017
The Gondolier
Jun 15, 2017
The Radio Lab
May 26, 2017
Null and Void
May 12, 2017
Funky Hand Jive
Apr 26, 2017
Radiolab Extra: Henrietta Lacks
Apr 19, 2017
Nukes
Apr 7, 2017
Shots Fired: Part 2
Mar 24, 2017
Shots Fired: Part 1
Mar 17, 2017
Update: CRISPR
Feb 24, 2017
Radiolab Presents: Ponzi Supernova
Feb 10, 2017
Man vs Machine
Feb 7, 2017
Stranger in Paradise
Jan 27, 2017
Radiolab Presents: On the Media: Busted, America's Poverty Myths
Jan 18, 2017
Lose Lose
Dec 30, 2016
It's Not Us, It's You
Dec 16, 2016
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - Object Anyway
Nov 22, 2016
One Vote
Nov 7, 2016
Alpha Gal
Oct 27, 2016
Seneca, Nebraska
Oct 12, 2016
The Primitive Streak
Sep 23, 2016
Update: Eye In the Sky
Sep 13, 2016
The Girl Who Doesn't Exist
Aug 29, 2016
Playing God
Aug 22, 2016
From Tree to Shining Tree
Jul 30, 2016
David and the Wire
Jul 12, 2016
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Imperfect Plaintiffs
Jun 28, 2016
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Political Thicket
Jun 10, 2016
The Buried Bodies Case
Jun 3, 2016
Bigger Than Bacon
May 10, 2016
On the Edge
Apr 22, 2016
Cellmates
Apr 6, 2016
Update: 23 Weeks 6 Days
Mar 23, 2016
Debatable
Mar 11, 2016
K-poparazzi
Feb 24, 2016
Hard Knock Life
Feb 12, 2016
I Don't Have To Answer That
Jan 30, 2016
The Cathedral
Dec 28, 2015
The Fix
Dec 18, 2015
Staph Retreat
Nov 3, 2015
Update: New Normal?
Oct 19, 2015
Darkode
Sep 22, 2015
Remembering Oliver Sacks
Aug 30, 2015
From the Archives: Oliver Sacks' Table of Elements
Aug 6, 2015
Shrink
Jul 31, 2015
Gray's Donation
Jul 16, 2015
Mau Mau
Jul 3, 2015
Eye in the Sky
Jun 18, 2015
Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR
Jun 6, 2015
Nazi Summer Camp
May 22, 2015
Radiolab Live: Tell-Tale Hearts featuring Oliver Sacks
May 12, 2015
The Living Room
Apr 9, 2015
Los Frikis
Mar 24, 2015
La Mancha Screwjob
Feb 24, 2015
The Trust Engineers
Feb 10, 2015
American Football
Jan 29, 2015
Radiolab Presents: Invisibilia
Jan 9, 2015
Worth
Dec 23, 2014
Buttons Not Buttons
Dec 12, 2014
Outside Westgate
Nov 29, 2014
Patient Zero - Updated
Nov 13, 2014
Haunted
Oct 30, 2014
John Luther Adams
Oct 3, 2014
Juicervose
Sep 18, 2014
In The Dust Of This Planet
Sep 8, 2014
Hello
Aug 21, 2014
Happy Birthday Bobby K
Aug 7, 2014
For the Birds
Jul 24, 2014
Galapagos
Jul 17, 2014
9-Volt Nirvana
Jun 26, 2014
≤ kg
Jun 13, 2014
The Skull
May 15, 2014
For the Love of Numbers
May 2, 2014
Straight Outta Chevy Chase
Apr 1, 2014
KILL 'EM ALL
Mar 25, 2014
Black Box
Jan 17, 2014
The Times They Are a-Changin'
Dec 30, 2013
Sex, Ducks, and The Founding Feud
Dec 19, 2013
Apocalyptical
Dec 9, 2013
An Ice-Cold Case
Nov 19, 2013
Cut and Run
Nov 1, 2013
UPDATE: Famous Tumors
Oct 22, 2013
Quicksaaaand!
Oct 10, 2013
Poop Train
Sep 24, 2013
Blame
Sep 12, 2013
Dawn of Midi
Aug 29, 2013