What are the limits to what’s knowable — and how has our thinking about big questions in science and technology has evolved over time?

Season 2 of Knowable Magazine’s science history podcast feature brand new episodes exploring the science of dreams, the search for extrasolar planets, the quest to treat depression and more.

The podcast draws on over nine decades of academic knowledge contained within the 51 journals from our publisher, Annual Reviews, as well as interviews with leading scientists.

Through compelling, fact-checked storytelling, this series will take you on a journey through the complex and often surprising history behind big ideas.

The Knowable Podcast: Season 2

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What are the limits to what’s knowable — and how has our thinking about big questions in science and technology has evolved over time? Knowable Magazine’s science history podcast returns on February 1, with brand new episodes exploring the science of dreams, the search for extrasolar planets, the quest to treat depression and so much more. Subscribe today to stay in the know.   

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Freud thought that dreams were the gateway to our unconscious mind. Today, many scientists think the opposite: that the dreaming brain is quite similar to our awake, conscious state. But dreaming is a very personal experience and one that we can’t share — making the phenomenon very difficult to study. We still don’t know for sure why we dream, but in this episode, we'll hear how psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers have been trying to answer that question.

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The science of dreams

PODCAST: Not that long ago, scientists found evidence that our Sun wasn’t unique — other stars have their own orbiting bodies. It was a discovery centuries in the making. What does this mean for Earth today and our place in the universe? (Season 2/Episode. 2)

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The search for exoplanets

The journey to understanding these critically important molecules, in their thousands of different flavors, began with a chance discovery. Today, after decades of painstaking lab work and dizzying technological leaps, the field of protein science is exploding.

Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up

Digging — quite literally — into our planet’s past to study its paleoclimate has shed light on bygone ice ages and hints at trouble ahead for our now-warming planet.

The history of climate change offers clues to Earth’s future

They started out so small, one could fit on the palm of your hand, but to make groundbreaking discoveries, physicists had to think really big — as in, vast machines with the power and capacity to reveal the tiniest building blocks of our universe.

How particle accelerators came to be

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