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Soren Wheeler

Executive Editor, Radiolab

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(WNYC Studios)

Soren Wheeler is the Executive Editor at Radiolab, where he plays a variety of roles, including producer, editor, and reporter. He also oversees the development of future content. Before coming to radio, Soren spent 10 years working with science teachers and writing about how kids learn science. He was a project coordinator at the Association for the Advancement of Science, where he co-authored the book Atlas of Science Literacy. He then went on to get a Master’s degree in science writing at Johns Hopkins University. Soren has won awards for production on radio pieces about coincidence and statistics, the periodic table, and the story of a woman waking up from a coma.

Soren Wheeler is the Executive Editor at Radiolab, where he plays a variety of roles, including producer, editor, and reporter. He also oversees the development of future content. Before coming to radio, Soren spent 10 years working with science teachers and writing about how kids learn science. He was a project coordinator at the Association for the Advancement of Science, where he co-authored the book Atlas of Science Literacy. He then went on to get a Master’s degree in science writing at Johns Hopkins University. Soren has won awards for production on radio pieces about coincidence and statistics, the periodic table, and the story of a woman waking up from a coma.

Soren Wheeler appears in the following:

The Elixir of Life

Friday, June 06, 2025

A physical reunion with humanity’s oldest friend.

A photograph of sections of the Earth as seen from space, overlaid on top of another picture of red blood cells at the microscopic level.

Ghosts in the Green Machine

Friday, April 18, 2025

Join us in the doomed and impossible task of quantifying how much the Earth is worth.

A famous portrait of Queen Elizabeth in a snow globe.

Malthusian Swerve

Friday, March 28, 2025

Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we?

As pair of leg bones overlayed above a beige and plain background.

Match Made in Marrow

Friday, January 03, 2025

If you donate bone marrow, you might save a life… or you might land a starring role in the greatest story ever told.

I tiny cow flouting on top of a full glass of milk.

Big Little Questions

Friday, August 30, 2024

Here at the show, we get A LOT of questions—tiny questions, big questions, weird questions, poop questions. Today, we’re dumping the bucket out.

Wild Talk

Thursday, August 29, 2024

We eavesdrop on the world of animals.

An illustration of an anatomical heart with an assortment of flowers coming out of it.

How to Save a Life

Friday, July 12, 2024

What would you do if someone’s heart stopped right in front of you?

Pencil outline drawing of a woman and a chimpanzee in the middle of a hug.

Lucy

Friday, May 17, 2024

Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family. This episode, a mashup of content stretching all the way back to 2010, asks the question ...

Staph Retreat

Friday, March 08, 2024

In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. What if the only way forward is backward?

A black and white image of the rotary dials on a slot machine.

Stochasticity

Friday, January 05, 2024

A dance with all the facets of chance.

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An illustration of an abacus, wherein some of the counting beads are replaced with the Radiolab frequency symbol.

Numbers

Friday, December 22, 2023

Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, and even reveal secrets about us.

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Silhouette of an umbrella over a clouded sky.

Smog Cloud Silver Lining

Friday, September 22, 2023

Can smog seed hope for climate change?

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The Middle of Everything Ever

Friday, December 09, 2022

We all have moments when, facing the future or staring into the vastness of space, we feel small. But are we small? One listener asked us to find out.

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A hand reaching up and out of a sea of sand.

Quicksaaaand!

Friday, September 16, 2022

Quicksand! Once a visual metaphor of the unknown, it has all but disappeared from popular culture. We wanted to know why.

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Kurt Vonnegut and the Shape of the Pandemic

Friday, April 08, 2022

Our preference for simple stories has made it hard to keep track of the pandemic.

The Wordless Place

Friday, February 18, 2022

Lulu and her son explore what is lost with the gaining of language. And how, in a very odd way, a fear of confusion and the unknown may begin with the advent of words.

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Flop Off

Friday, December 31, 2021

This year was a flop. Here at Radiolab we wanted to flip that flop, so we dredged up the most mortifying, most cringeworthy, most gravity-defying flops as a Flop Off to 2021.

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Animal Minds

Friday, November 26, 2021

Can a whale be gracious? Can a leopard seal fall in love with its photographer? That guilty look a dog gives you, does it really FEEL bad? What is it exactly are these animals thinking?

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Kurt Vonnegut and the Shape of the Pandemic

Friday, October 22, 2021

Our preference for simple stories has made it hard to keep track of the pandemic.

Staph and Gamma

Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Two stories of surprisingly simple scientific discoveries—one that seems straight out of sci-fi, and the other, directly from the past.

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