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Hosted by Michael Jenkin · education · EN
New science, explained like a story. The Lab Report with MJ takes freshly published studies — cancer research, psychology, climate, tech, the occasional bat — and turns them into lively two-host conversations that are fun, quirky, and respectful of the real science. No jargon, no lectures — just the good stuff, with the caveats stated plainly. New episodes regularly. Like, follow and share for more content.
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Signup to Generate a PitchNew science, explained like a story. The Lab Report with MJ takes freshly published studies, cancer research, psychology, climate, tech, the occasional bat, and turns them into lively two-host conversations that are fun, quirky, and respectful of the real science. No jargon, no lectures, just the good stuff, with the caveats stated plainly. New episodes regularly.
The Lab Report with MJ. is hosted by Michael Jenkin. The show has published 26 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Can a Dog Ease Your Migraines?" (31 October 2026, 4 minutes), "Are Chernobyl's Dogs Evolving?" (30 October 2026, 4 minutes), and "Can a Brain Scan Tell How Well You Handle Stress?" (29 October 2026, 5 minutes).
The Lab Report with MJ. publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 13 minutes across 26 episodes.
Booking probability for The Lab Report with MJ. is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Lab Report with MJ. requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Lab Report with MJ.'s contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for The Lab Report with MJ. are Scientific Research & Development. The Lab Report with MJ. has an education audience.
Michael Jenkin hosts The Lab Report with MJ., an education podcast with 26 episodes published.
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Can a dog ease your migraines? A two-year study of 3,017 migraine patients found that people who kept a pet the whole time had fewer, milder attacks and used less medication — and dog owners did best of all...
The Lab Report with MJ.
Are Chernobyl's dogs evolving? Forty years after the 1986 disaster, the descendants of abandoned pets still roam the Exclusion Zone — and their DNA tells a surprising story. NC State researchers found selection signals...
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Can a brain scan tell how well you handle stress? A giant Nature study — 32 teams, 40 brain-scan datasets, 2,175 people — checked the idea that a busier prefrontal cortex means better emotion control, and it didn't hold...
The Lab Report with MJ.
Can a parasite we thought belonged to humans be living in your dog's mouth? Polish researchers swabbed 238 household pets and found mouth parasites in 17% of dogs and nearly 6% of cats — including Trichomonas tenax, the...
The Lab Report with MJ.
The Viral Police are on the case: the Door Kick Challenge is NOT a prank. Police from Massachusetts to Florida to Washington warn that kicking strangers' front doors reads as a break-in from inside — one homeowner...
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Can your dog take a memory test? University of Arizona researchers built CANID — three treat games that spot subtle cognitive decline in dogs as young as seven or eight, years before dementia signs show. And the twist...
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Were the 'killer skunk pigs' hunting anyone? The Viral Police checked the tape: they aren't pigs, they can barely see, and they weren't hunting — a herd of half-blind moms smelled a little dog near their babies and...
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Georgia Tech researchers tested whether simple instructions can stop chatbots from reinforcing delusional beliefs — and cut confirmations by nearly 74%. The fix targets "sycophancy": AI that agrees with you just to be...
The Lab Report with MJ.
The long-form discussion of the Leeuwarden case: the Dutch civil damages lawsuit behind the viral 'Bill Gates ON TRIAL / bioweapon' claims — what the court has actually ruled (procedure, not science), the Oct 14...
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Nearly 1 in 4 people with severe depression may have a distinct subtype — "circadian depression" — tied to their body clock, not just brain chemistry. A new University of Sydney study of 11,380 Australians found this...
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The Viral Police are on the case. A viral video claims a Dutch judge has ordered Bill Gates to stand trial for creating COVID-19 as a bioweapon — and that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been called as an expert witness. The...
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Your cat isn't just tolerating you — you're syncing hormones. A Kyoto University study of 29 cats living with their owners found that after just 10 minutes of petting and talking, oxytocin rose in BOTH the cat and the...
The Lab Report with MJ.
The Viral Police are on the case. A polished "breaking" video claims a deadly hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Ocean Explorer — ambulances, government press releases, the works. Helio & Aria trace the footage back...
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A Lancet audit found 1 in 277 medical papers cite studies that don't exist — real-sounding authors, journals, and DOIs pointing to nothing. The suspected cause: AI tools used to draft reference lists. We break down how...
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Treating depression during pregnancy doesn't just help mom — it measurably changes her baby's brain. In the Care Project study (Nature Communications, 2026), pregnant mothers with depression got counseling by phone —...
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A new study in The Lancet Psychiatry found that people with schizophrenia who also have type 2 diabetes and take GLP-1 drugs (like semaglutide) had 24% fewer psychiatric hospital admissions — plus 32% fewer all-cause...
The Lab Report with MJ.
A University of Pittsburgh study of 187,341 adults finds ADHD is linked to a higher chance of dementia later in life — about 3.7% vs 1.9% over 10 years — with risks varying by ancestry. Crucially, taking ADHD medication...
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Anthropic's Frontier Red Team warns small AI models may soon self-replicate across smart devices — and in their tests one model ran the full gauntlet: eight machines, four of five tries. The honest part: today's models...
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Johns Hopkins researchers found that ACE — the protein blood pressure drugs target — runs significantly lower in people with early psychosis, and lowest in those whose symptoms resist standard treatment. The twist...
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Scientists in Italy found microplastic particles in the blood of every single dog and cat they tested — 20 out of 20. Most were tiny fibers of polyethylene and polypropylene, and the likely culprit is the air and dust...
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