Unexplainable

Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know … and then keeps on going. Host N

Episodes

Total: 181

A mountain, a tower, a thermos full of molten salt: These are the batteries that could power our ren

Death used to be fairly self-evident, but new technologies have forced us to ask: When is someone ac

Why do so many people think they can see and hear ghosts, and what does that say about our conscious

In the past few decades, the rate of food allergies in both children and adults has dramatically inc

On the first episode of Vox’s new podcast, The Gray Area, host Sean Illing talks with Neil deGrasse

For the first time, we get some answers.For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainableIt’s a great pla

Today's internet is built on a series of locks and keys that protect your private information as it

At the 2022 World Athletics Championships, sprinter TyNia Gaither was disqualified for false startin

This past July, a bombshell report in Science magazine suggested that a key Alzheimer’s study might

One of the world’s most biodiverse aquifers is full of strange, blind creatures that have evolved in

They probably didn’t roar like lions. Their real voices were likely much, much weirder. We asked sci

There's an old story scientists tell about human ovaries: that they are ticking clocks that only los

Where eels come from is a surprisingly difficult question to answer, in large part because scientist

People yawn when they’re bored, right? So then why do athletes yawn before races? And why do so many

A lava planet, life on other worlds, the very first starlight in the universe — the most powerful sp

Millions of Americans take dietary supplements — everything from vitamins and minerals to weight los

Venus is the hottest, scariest planet in the solar system, but billions of years ago it may have bee

Mars was once a very different planet, with rivers, lakes, and — potentially — life. NASA’s latest M

In all our searching of the universe, we’ve never seen another moon like ours. It's big, it's weird,

Was there a technologically advanced species living on Earth long before humans? And if one had exis