Our live show is full of rock & roll, science, storytelling, dancing, and comedy. You don't want to miss it. Tickets are on sale now in Philadelphia. And save the date for Seattle this summer. Find out more about In the Dark here.

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Our friends at Longshot Radio are speed-producing a series of radio pieces today about creativity's most dramatic moments--of struggle, failure, and triumph. And we want to hear your stories. Find out more, and tell us about your own creative highs and lows.

If you've got advice on how to achieve middle school science fair glory, one of our listeners could use a little help...

Robert puzzles over why sunsets on the Red Planet are blue. Find out why, and take a look at some photos and an animation from NASA.

We discovered a ton of amazing music while putting together our short Crossroads, about the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Check out the line-up here--if you listen through, you end up with something of a history of the roots of rock n' roll.

Latif Nasser makes an unexpected discovery in a psych ward in Denmark--an unusual museum full of stunning artifacts. Read more, and check out a ton of photos.

For our Guts episode, producer Tim Howard bravely headed to Rutgers University to see, feel...and smell...a fistulated cow firsthand. Check out his pictures here.

We’re creating a series of digital posters for a new Radiolab membership we’re launching this spring...and we’d love your input on which episodes you’d like to see turned into high res art. Thanks for weighing in, and check back next month to see the first posters!

While visiting Sweden, Latif Nasser encountered the spirit of a long-dead legend of taxonomy. And he found himself wondering about an age-old puzzle: how do you savor the mystery of new-found oddities while you're uncovering the facts behind the weirdness?

Robert teamed up with Carl Zimmer Monday night to moderate a brain mapping brouhaha at Columbia University. The subject: does the brain's wiring make us who we are? Thanks to everyone who tuned in for the webcast--thought the event has ended, you can read the lively web chat here.

In our latest short, The Turing Problem, we described the importance of a wholly imaginary invention--Alan Turing's theoretical "universal machine." But thanks to a listener, we found out that someone actually figured out a way to build one! And there's video.

We're teaming up with the Public Insight Network to conduct some surveys on the phenomenon of insider knowledge. Has your professional opinion ever been in complete disagreement with your personal point of view? We want to hear your story. Read more, & find out how to get in touch.

Robert considers the solitude of discovery, versus the grand public statements we tend to expect from the big moment. And he recounts one famous instance--when humans first reached the deepest place on Earth--when no words came. Read more, & watch a beautiful animation, here.

Our new short, The Turing Problem, takes a look at some of the confusing human emotions surrounding Alan Turing's brilliant ideas about computers. For more on Turing, and what machines can tell us about being human, check out our episode Talking to Machines.

Sean Cole tries to square the idea that the fallout from a war between teensy organisms and teensier viruses can be seen from space. Luckily, he finds a perspective-shaking demo built by two 14-year-old boys that helps him get his bearings. Read more, and play with the demo, here.

Inspired by Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, Ellen Horne puts her mind to the task of explaining the two (sometimes in sync, sometimes at odds) operating systems that our brains use to solve problems. Try out your own systems here.

Tim Howard shares a couple of great getaway stories (including one that didn't actually work) that caught our attention while we were putting together our Escape! show.

For our episode, The Bad Show, Pat Walters reported a piece about a psychologist who found that 91% of men and 84% of women have had at least one serious homicidal fantasy. So Pat decided to hit the streets to see if anyone was willing to fess up on ...

After hearing our Death Mask podcast, a listener writes in with another sighting of l'inconnue--and includes some pictures.

We put together a playlist of some of our favorite Radiolab meditations on love--from spooning blood flukes, to a cosmically-moving mixtape, to a story about what love looks like when one partner is faceblind. Take a listen, and share it with someone special.

When Pat Walters traveled to Romania with a few American reporters to teach some classes on narrative journalism to a group of Romanian writers, he had a coincidental run-in with a Radiolab regular. Sort of. Read more, and check out some of Pat's travel photos, here.