Night Science by Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher

90 - 89 | Woods Hole 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.

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90 - 89 | Woods Hole Night Science!

Mon, 19 Oct 2026
89 - 88 | How AI dreams up new science – with Jure Leskovec

Mon, 10 Aug 2026
88 - 87 | On the joys of being a young scientist

Mon, 13 Jul 2026
87 - 86 | From punchlines to discovery – Sarah Adelman

Mon, 22 Jun 2026
86 - 85 | How laziness invites discovery – Robert Root-Bernstein

Mon, 08 Jun 2026
85 - 84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland

Mon, 13 Apr 2026
84 - 83 | How science is secretly driven by analogy – Melanie Mitchell

Mon, 16 Feb 2026
83 - 82 | On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues

Mon, 02 Feb 2026
82 - 81 | How to find your way by getting lost – Marina Dubova

Mon, 12 Jan 2026
81 - 80 | Why greatness cannot be planned with Kenneth Stanley

Mon, 29 Dec 2025
80 - 79 | Maria Leptin and creativity in grant writing

Mon, 08 Dec 2025
79 - 78 | Stephen Nachmanovitch on free play and chivalry

Mon, 10 Nov 2025
78 - 77 | Akiko Iwasaki and the art of creativity maintenance

Mon, 22 Sep 2025
77 - 76 | Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?

Mon, 08 Sep 2025
76 - 75 | Eve Marder and how Recipe Science ruins creativity

Mon, 26 May 2025
75 - 74 | Martin Schwartz and the importance of stupidity in science

Mon, 21 Apr 2025
74 - 73 | Ethan Mollick and a million Einsteins in a server

Mon, 07 Apr 2025
73 - 72 | David Baker and the lab's communal brain

Mon, 24 Mar 2025
72 - 71 | Victor Ambros and the unique ways we perceive wonder

Mon, 10 Mar 2025
71 - 70 | Meghan O’Rourke on being the artist and their caretaker

Mon, 17 Feb 2025
70 - 69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

Mon, 27 Jan 2025
69 - 68 | Peter Godfrey-Smith and middle class science

Tue, 14 Jan 2025
68 - 67 | A hypothesis is a liability

Mon, 16 Dec 2024
67 - 66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree

Mon, 25 Nov 2024
66 - 65 | James Kaufman and the art of creativity maintenance

Mon, 04 Nov 2024
65 - 64 | Robert Weinberg and the perils of being a Fachidiot

Mon, 30 Sep 2024
64 - 63 | Manu Prakash and how the discovery changes you

Mon, 09 Sep 2024
63 - 62 | Dianne Newman and the visceral and intentional sides of science

Mon, 19 Aug 2024
62 - 61 | Tina Seelig on what to do with a really bad idea

Mon, 15 Jul 2024
61 - 60 | Venki Ramakrishnan and the secrets of doing science over tea

Mon, 01 Jul 2024
60 - 59 | Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv and the point of creative frustration

Mon, 27 May 2024
59 - 58 | Guy Yanai on Pentimenti

Tue, 14 May 2024
58 - 57 | George Church and shooting for the stars

Mon, 29 Apr 2024
57 - 56 | Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz lights a candle for science

Mon, 15 Apr 2024
56 - 55 | Isaac Newton and a new kind of science

Mon, 01 Apr 2024
55 - 54 | Bo Xia and a tale of tails

Wed, 28 Feb 2024
54 - 53 | Todd Golub and bottom-up creativity

Mon, 26 Feb 2024
53 - 52 | Sean B. Carroll – he told some good stories

Mon, 12 Feb 2024
52 - 51 | Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz of impossible problems

Mon, 29 Jan 2024
51 - 50 | It takes two to think

Mon, 15 Jan 2024
50 - 49 | Rich White on living on the edge cases

Mon, 08 Jan 2024
49 - 48 | Carolyn Bertozzi and a long game called science

Mon, 25 Dec 2023
48 - 47 | Stephen Quake and the Creative Network

Mon, 11 Dec 2023
47 - 46 | John Mattick and doing what your mother taught you

Mon, 27 Nov 2023
46 - 45 | Peter Ratcliffe on being the Master of Daydreams

Mon, 13 Nov 2023
45 - 44 | Christina Curtis and keeping the faith in the process

Mon, 30 Oct 2023
44 - 43 | Daniel Dennett’s intuition pumps

Mon, 16 Oct 2023
43 - 42 | Howard Stone on how to tilt your head for discovery

Mon, 25 Sep 2023
42 - 41 | Prisca Liberali and the junkies of discovery

Sun, 10 Sep 2023
41 - 40 | Tom Mullaney & Chris Rea on giving thanks to bias

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

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