Carl Zimmer appears in the following:
The Age of Aquaticus
Friday, April 25, 2025
How a tiny worm that loves hot water changed the trajectory of modern science.
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.
Revenge of the Miasma
Friday, February 28, 2025
Death, disbelief and a watermelon doctor who disappears into thin air.
Guts
Friday, November 04, 2022
In this episode we will explore the grotesque tube slide inside all of us.
Looking for COVID-19's Origin Story
Thursday, May 27, 2021
NYT's Carl Zimmer discuss why the origin of COVID-19 is disputed.
The Challenges of Vaccine Distribution
Monday, November 16, 2020
Carl Zimmer discusses who might be at the top of the list for a COVID-19 vaccine from healthcare workers, to the elderly and minority communities as well as prisoners.
Creation Translation
Thursday, August 27, 2020
We all know DNA is the Book of Life, the recipe to make you you. But what if the story of us is really DNA's sidekick?
Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
The forgotten origins of a lifesaving ritual we’re all acting out 20 times a day, every single day.
Never Quite Now
Friday, March 27, 2020
We keep missing the moment in the longest experiment in the world and find out "fast as thought" is not as fast as we thought.
Parasites
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe).
Science Is On It
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Science writer Carl Zimmer talks about the immense research effort in finding treatments for Covid-19.
Carl Zimmer Questions Heredity as We Know It
Monday, June 04, 2018
Science writer Carl Zimmer argues the need for a broader definition of heredity and uses recent scientific research to unpack bioethical quandaries.
Update: CRISPR
Friday, February 24, 2017
In 2012, scientists had a realization: hidden inside one of the world’s smallest organisms, was one of the world’s most powerful tools.
Carl Zimmer's 'Game of Genomes'
Monday, July 11, 2016
This is the story of one man's quest to learn literally everything about his body that science can tell him.
Shrink
Thursday, July 30, 2015
The definition of life is in flux, complexity is overrated, and humans are shrinking.
Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR
Saturday, June 06, 2015
In 2012, scientists had a realization: hidden inside one of the world’s smallest organisms, was one of the world’s most powerful tools.
Worth
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
We’ve gathered a handful of stories that show how every time we think we’ve settled on a price for something, it slips out of our grasp.
Patient Zero - Updated
Thursday, November 13, 2014
The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center, Patient Zero. We hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.
Carl Zimmer on Giant Sandworms
Friday, July 04, 2014
The science writer Carl Zimmer was 10 years old when his family moved to rural New Jersey. He quickly made a new friend whose father was the prolific science fiction illustrator John ...
