Night Science

Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday. 

75 | Eve Marder and how Recipe Science ruins creativity
May 26, 2025 – 33:35
74 | Martin Schwartz and the importance of stupidity in science
Apr 21, 2025 – 29:19
73 | Ethan Mollick and a million Einsteins in a server
Apr 7, 2025 – 38:02
72 | David Baker and the lab's communal brain
Mar 24, 2025 – 24:53
71 | Victor Ambros and the unique ways we perceive wonder
Mar 10, 2025 – 35:11
70 | Meghan O’Rourke on being the artist and their caretaker
Feb 17, 2025 – 45:15
69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail
Jan 27, 2025 – 40:40
68 | Peter Godfrey-Smith and middle class science
Jan 14, 2025 – 33:43
67 | A hypothesis is a liability
Dec 16, 2024 – 39:51
66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree
Nov 25, 2024 – 50:52
65 | James Kaufman and the art of creativity maintenance
Nov 4, 2024 – 30:35
64 | Robert Weinberg and the perils of being a Fachidiot
Sep 30, 2024 – 42:31
63 | Manu Prakash and how the discovery changes you
Sep 9, 2024 – 44:49
62 | Dianne Newman and the visceral and intentional sides of science
Aug 19, 2024 – 40:09
61 | Tina Seelig on what to do with a really bad idea
Jul 15, 2024 – 29:31
60 | Venki Ramakrishnan and the secrets of doing science over tea
Jul 1, 2024 – 33:53
59 | Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv and the point of creative frustration
May 27, 2024 – 36:04
58 | Guy Yanai on Pentimenti
May 14, 2024 – 24:01
57 | George Church and shooting for the stars
Apr 29, 2024 – 36:18
56 | Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz lights a candle for science
Apr 15, 2024 – 39:47
55 | Isaac Newton and a new kind of science
Apr 1, 2024 – 26:33
54 | Bo Xia and a tale of tails
Feb 28, 2024 – 31:35
53 | Todd Golub and bottom-up creativity
Feb 26, 2024 – 35:57
52 | Sean B. Carroll – he told some good stories
Feb 12, 2024 – 39:03
51 | Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz of impossible problems
Jan 29, 2024 – 39:13
50 | It takes two to think
Jan 15, 2024 – 23:31
49 | Rich White on living on the edge cases
Jan 8, 2024 – 43:56
48 | Carolyn Bertozzi and a long game called science
Dec 25, 2023 – 40:47
47 | Stephen Quake and the Creative Network
Dec 11, 2023 – 35:09
46 | John Mattick and doing what your mother taught you
Nov 27, 2023 – 30:59
45 | Peter Ratcliffe on being the Master of Daydreams
Nov 13, 2023 – 35:17
44 | Christina Curtis and keeping the faith in the process
Oct 30, 2023 – 42:07
43 | Daniel Dennett’s intuition pumps
Oct 16, 2023 – 41:04
42 | Howard Stone on how to tilt your head for discovery
Sep 25, 2023 – 39:56
41 | Prisca Liberali and the junkies of discovery
Sep 10, 2023 – 32:35
40 | Tom Mullaney & Chris Rea on giving thanks to bias
Aug 28, 2023 – 43:24
39 | Bonnie Bassler and living on the edge in a nerdy kind of way
Aug 14, 2023 – 38:39
38 | Yukiko Yamashita, the queen of analogies
Jul 3, 2023 – 26:49
37 | Stephen Wolfram is the Worldly Scientist
Jun 19, 2023 – 41:46
36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery
Jun 5, 2023 – 41:56
35 | Edith Heard and the feeling for the system
May 22, 2023 – 37:43
34 | Ewan Birney and the battle scars of discovery
May 8, 2023 – 40:20
33 | Paola Arlotta and science as a walk in the dark woods
Apr 24, 2023 – 51:13
32 | Marty Martin and Art Woods on science podcasting
Apr 10, 2023 – 01:01:34
31 | Alfred Russel Wallace and night science by candlelight
Apr 1, 2023 – 53:04
30 | Zak Kohane and the abstraction of data
Mar 20, 2023 – 28:28
29 | Jim Collins and the technology-free Friday
Mar 6, 2023 – 41:53
28 | Caroline Bartman and the flash(cards) of inspiration
Feb 13, 2023 – 28:18
27 | Albert-László Barabási is not afraid to break things
Jan 22, 2023 – 39:03
26 | Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect
Jan 2, 2023 – 33:55

Recent Reviews

BrittanieH

Invigorating and delightful reminder that science is creativity with metrics

The first two episodes have been thoughtful and exciting to listen to- I can’t wait for more to come!