Hello Undiscovered fans! We're here to tell you about a new show we've been working on at Science Friday. Science Diction is a podcast about words—and...

These days, biologists believe all living things come from other living things. But for a long time, people believed that life would, from time to tim...

In 1880, scientist Albert Michelson set out to build a device to measure something every 19th century physicist knew just had to be there. The “lumini...

In Apartheid-era South Africa, a scientist uncovered a cracked, proto-human jawbone. That humble fossil would go on to inspire one of the most blood-s...

“Do men need to cheat on their women?” a Playboy headline asked in the summer of 1978. Their not-so-surprising conclusion: Yes! Science says so! The i...

In 1767, a young French servant boarded a ship and sailed around the world, collecting plants previously unknown to Western science. The ship’s crew k...

Undiscovered is back between seasons with a listener question: What saved the cats? If you rewind to the Middle Ages, cats and humans were on bad term...

In U.S. cancer research, the most promising clinical trials are done mostly on white patients, which means people of color—and especially African Amer...

In this Undiscovered Cares Report, Annie and Elah dig into a scary science headline and help Elah’s friend, David, figure out how scared he should be ...

In 2016, a North Carolina legislator announced that his party would be redrawing the state’s congressional district map with a particular goal in mind...