Radiolab for Kids
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Radiolab for Kids
Welcome, nature lovers, to the home of the Terrestrials podcast and family-friendly Radiolab episodes about nature. Every other week, host Lulu Miller will take you on a nature walk to encounter a plant or animal behaving in ways that will surprise you. Squirrels that can regrow their brains, octopu...
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The Travelers: How Moon Trees Hide Among Us
In 1971, a red-headed, tree-loving astronaut named Stu ‘Smokey’ Roosa was asked to take something to the moon with him. Of all things, he chose to tak...
The Builders: How Beavers Mend Our Planet
Few mammals have a bigger positive impact on the planet than the beaver. With its bright orange buck teeth, the creature is an expert engineer that br...
PIZZA BFF
Pizza is one of the world’s most beloved foods. But as much as we love the way it tastes, the secrets of its ingredients are even yummier to discover....
The Horseshoe Crab's Secret
We’re back with an episode from the Radiolab archive. Horseshoe crabs have been around for a long time. They outlived the dinosaurs, survived all mass...
Crabtacular! A deep dive into the Hudson River
Today, we splash into the Hudson River Park with our Songbud to meet all kinds of crabs. With Siddartha and Carrie from the Hudson River Park, Alan p...
CHOWDA: A Souper Fascinating Tale
Today we’re bringing you a live episode we taped in Boston. It’s about clam chowder. We’re sharing it now because we’re doing ANOTHER LIVE SHOW at Lit...
The Sea Troll: An Everlasting Shark?
The Greenland shark is ugly. Its eyes look cloudy and dead. Its snout and fins are stubby. Its meat is poisonous. And that may be part of why most peo...
Bugapalooza! LIVE! Jumping spiders, hissing roaches, and more
We’re doing a bunch of LIVE SHOWS at Little Island in NYC on August 6th-7th. For free. Come join! Check out all of our performances here.
Today...
The Howler: The Dog Who Joined a Coyote Pack
On the outskirts of the Nevada desert, a young dog named Hades jumped his fence and ran away from home. His family lost hope, until one night, they sa...
The Invaders: Coquí Frogs Just Won't Die
Coquí frogs are synonymous with Puerto Rican identity. Residents of the island doze off to the high-pitched calls of coquís from dusk to dawn. There a...
The Snow Beast: A Mystery Animal with Latif Nasser
Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the Nort...
The Windbreaker: Why Farts Make the World Go Round
Farts. Trouser trumpets. Sulfur squeaks. Or toots, as Lulu insists on calling them. Smelly bubbles of air we don’t like to talk about. But Songbud Ala...
The Shadow Creature: Rats Who Save Human Lives
Rats have a bad reputation. They’ve been called evil, terrifying and wicked. The lowliest and most abominable of creatures. Songbud Alan felt the same...
More Terrestrials Coming Soon!
Terrestrials returns Thursday, April 17th with a brand-new season!
This spring, we’re diving into the wonderfully weird. Get ready to meet some...
Build-A-Dragon
On January 29, in places like China, Malaysia, Korea and Chinatowns across the globe, dragons will rise in the form of massive puppets. Today we bring...
The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen
Artist Ashley (Ash) Eliza Williams was so shy growing up that they found it hard to speak to people. Instead, they withdrew from the world of humans...
The Bullseye: Treasure Hunt to Recursive Islands
Have you ever seen an island on a lake? On an island? On a lake? On another island? Josh Calder has. Working in a dusty room of a library, he first sa...
An Ocean in Space
BLAST OFF! NASA just sent a spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, and on the side of that spacecraft, they included a poem. Not just any poem...
The Crystal Ball: Giant Honeybees Who Predict the Future
The honeybee. The ever-important pollinator for our plants is disappearing. Some call it the silence of the bees, others call it colony collapse disor...
The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic
Middle schooler, Aanya, has an up-close encounter with a squirrel in the school yard, which leads her to an obsession with one of North America's most...
The Stumpisode: The Wild World of Tree Stumps!
As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. From stumps to snags, deadwood provides habitat for rodents, falcons, insects, a...
The Hybrid: A Miracle Mule
In the game of life, every species is like an action figure. You got your dogs and your dung beetles, your bald eagles and your blueberries. And for a...
The Water Walker: One Surfer’s Epic Escape
The ocean can be a scary place: the waves are so strong, the water so deep. But surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo tells the story of an earthling who fi...
The Unimaginable: How Gravitational Waves (Literally) Rocked Our World
Over a billion lightyears ago, in the darkness of outer space, a collision of black holes sent out a fleet of invisible waves that were headed right t...
The Trio: A Bald Eagle Love Story
High above the banks of the Mississippi river, a nest holds the secret life of one of America’s most patriotic creatures. Their story puzzles scientis...
The Guardian: Tsetse Fly Defenders
A singing entomologist, Dr. Sammy Ramsey, and a biologist with a knack for inventing things, Dr. Paul Mireji, tell us about one of the most fearsome a...
The Mastermind: An Octopus Heist
A color-changing creature many people assumed to be brainless outsmarts his human captors. SPOILER: The creature is an octopus! Author Sy Montgomery t...
Vanished Moon!
The moon has disappeared. Ok, just kidding. Happy April Fool’s Day. But what if the moon actually vanished?
After songbud Alan saw a movie about...
Gettin' Crabby
If someone calls you crabby, it’s not a compliment – they’re calling you grumpy, grouchy or snappy. But let’s reconsider this stain on the humble crab...
Luck of the Lobster
St. Patricks day is coming up. People worldwide will wear leprechaun hats and celebrate the luck of the Irish. But what about the luck of lobsters? To...
The Big Cat and the Little Boy
When wildlife conservationist Alan Rabinowitz was a boy, he had a stutter. Strangely, his stutter vanished when he spoke to animals. One day, when his...
It's Raining Cats and Cats
Next week is Valentine’s Day, but instead of talking about falling in love, we’re going to talk about falling cats and barrels. First, writer David Qu...
Stars from the Big Fib
Today we bring you an episode from our friends over at The Big Fib. In the era of fake news, kids need to learn to be able to tell what’s true from wh...
Hole-y Cow
For centuries, the stomach was a black box to humans. We didn’t understand the mystery of what happened to food after it went inside us. That is, unti...
The Present: A Gift from our Furry Friends
To celebrate New Year’s Day, there are all kinds of traditions. Some people eat black eyed peas for good luck, some list out resolutions. But here at...
Volcanoes on the Moon
The year’s best celestial event was, without a doubt, April’s solar eclipse. The moon went in front of the sun to cast a 115 mile wide shadow on Earth...
Milky Seas From Atlas Obscura
Today we bring you an episode from our friends over at Atlas Obscura. It's about something that for centuries people thought was a tall tale, somethin...
The Littlest Black Hole
In less than 10 days, the world will witness the winter solstice, or the shortest day of the year. Half of the Earth will be tilted the farthest away...
Zoozve
Radiolab co-host Latif Nasser was putting his child to sleep one day when he noticed a poster of the solar system on the wall. It showed that Venus ha...
A Feast for Baboons
We start this story off with a question. Are human beings innately violent?
Then we head to East Africa with Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sap...