(Editor's Update: A comment from a Radiolab producer and a link to their follow up interview with the filmmakers is appended.) The award-winning show, hosted by Macarthur fellow Jad Abumrad and ...

How do we know what we know? What makes us certain of reality? In this hour of Radiolab, we take a look at how doubt and certainty work in the brain and even ask questions about the existence of God.

Ellen Horne, executive producer of WNYC’s Radiolab, is taking a job at Audible as an executive producer. At Audible, Horne joins Eric Nuzum, a former programming v.p. at NPR who left the network in ...

Socrates once said, “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” As for me, I know I’m intelligent, because I know what Socrates said. But are either of those good metrics for ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Not five minutes after I sit down with Jad Abumrad for chorizo eggs and a cappuccino ...

The public radio program Radiolab distanced itself from Jonah Lehrer after the celebrated science writer admitted Monday that he fabricated quotes in his book, “Imagine: How Creativity Works.” Lehrer ...

If history proves correct, Magicicada Brood II will emerge this spring after living underground for 17 years. In many places along the Eastern Seaboard — from North Carolina to Connecticut — the ...