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Hosted by Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher · science · EN-US
Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhere do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday.
Night Science is hosted by Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher. The show has published 90 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "89 | Woods Hole Night Science!" (19 October 2026, 43 minutes), "88 | How AI dreams up new science, with Jure Leskovec" (10 August 2026, 36 minutes), and "87 | On the joys of being a young scientist" (13 July 2026, 38 minutes).
Night Science publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 90 episodes.
Booking probability for Night Science is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Night Science requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Night Science's contact route on record: public web form.
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Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher hosts Night Science, a science podcast with 90 episodes published.
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What if an intensive science course wasn't primarily about learning techniques or producing results, but about learning how to think like a scientist ? To explore that question, Itai visited the legendary Marine...
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What happens when AI starts doing science? We talk with Stanford computer scientist Jure Leskovec about AI agents that find patterns in large datasets, come up with hypotheses and try to kill them with more data...
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What can early-career scientists teach us about creativity? For this special episode, we talked to PhD students and postdocs about their creative processes. They told us about finding scientific ideas in art museums...
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What can comedy teach us about scientific discovery? With stand-up comedian and former research scientist Sarah Adelman , we discuss the surprising parallels between jokes and discoveries . Sarah shares her path from...
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Professor Robert Root-Bernstein has not only made many scientific discoveries, but has also written extensively about the creative process, including in Sparks of Genius (with Michele Root-Bernstein) and in his latest...
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Professor Lois Hetland , the former chair of art education at the Massachusetts College of Art, joins us to ask: what do artists and scientists truly share? We explore the striking parallels between artistic practice...
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Melanie Mitchell is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a leading thinker on artificial intelligence, analogy, and abstraction . She reflects on how analogy quietly drives creativity and scientific discovery even...
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Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues co-direct the Laboratory of Morphogenesis at Rockefeller University. They are also married. Together, we reflect on what it means to think creatively in biology. Amy and Alan discuss the...
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It’s surprising that for centuries, scientists have left the study of how to do science largely to non-scientists. Not anymore – thanks to the young field of cognitive epistemology. In this episode, we discuss the...
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Ken Stanley is a highly regarded researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence. After leaving his professorship at the University of Central Florida, he cofounded Geometric Intelligence (now Uber AI Labs)...
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Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC , the European Research Council, and Professor of genetics at the University of Cologne. In this episode, Maria describes her own path as one driven by observation and curiosity...
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Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician celebrated for his free improvisations, and an educator whose books Free Play and The Art of Is have become classics on the creative process. With his training as an ecologist and his...
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Akiko Iwasaki , a Yale professor and Howard Hughes Investigator, was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2024. Together, we reflect on how diverse backgrounds enrich research , allowing people to...
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To answer this question, we speak with Dr. Alan Karthikesalingam and Vivek Natarajan from Google DeepMind about their groundbreaking AI co-scientist project. Beyond their work at Google, Alan is an honorary lecturer in...
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Professor Eve Marder is a pioneering neuroscientist at Brandeis University. Drawing on decades of work with a small neural circuit in lobsters, she describes how discovery often emerges from intuition, puzzlement , and...
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Martin Schwartz , a professor at Yale, is known for his work on integrins and his influential essay “ The importance of stupidity in scientific research ”. He emphasizes that while learning science makes you feel smart...
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With Ethan Mollick , professor at Wharton and author of the bestselling “Co-Intelligence” , we explore how generative AI tools like ChatGPT can enhance scientific creativity. Ethan emphasizes that AI excels at idea...
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David Baker , who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing novel proteins with AI, is a professor at the University of Washington. In this episode, he explains how he socially engineers his lab’s "...
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Victor Ambros , newly awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of microRNA , is a developmental biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In this episode, we explore improvisational science – the...
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Meghan O'Rourke , acclaimed author of The Invisible Kingdom, poet , and Yale professor , joins us to explore the parallels between creative writing and scientific discovery . She describes how deep immersion in a...
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Core Business Solutions President, Scott Dawson Evangelistic Association
Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe Institute
editor of the Yale Review, and author of "The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness", Neurodiversity Ireland
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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