NEW EPISODE! We sit down with Andrew Robertson (@andrew-antdude.bsky.social) winner of the #myscijourney competition hosted by @galacticpolymath.com. Dive into the remarkable world of ants and learn how complicated these tiny creatures are! Listen now www.smartteapodcast.com/andrew-rober...

It's episode 50! Aarati tells the story of the temperamental Russian chemist who figured out a way to organize all the known (and unknown) elements into a table that ordered them by increasing atomic weight and grouped them into categories. www.smartteapodcast.com/dmitri-mende...

NEW EPISODE! Sneaking in one more before the end of the year and wrapping up our series on #thermodynamics physicists. Dive into the fascinating and tragic life of Ludwig Boltzmann, the man who redefined entropy! #sciencepodcast #phsyics www.smartteapodcast.com/ludwig-boltz...

NEW EPISODE! Our December Thermodynamics Extravaganza continues with the story of Dr. Rudolf Clausius, the physicist who defined the first 2 laws of thermodynamics: 1) energy is conserved and 2) entropy is always increasing. Listen to his story, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/rudolf-claus...

NEW EPISODE! Sadi Carnot was a young French scientist who designed the most perfect )albeit theoretical) stem engine. He is known as the Father of Thermodynamics! Check out his full life story here www.smartteapodcast.com/sadi-carnot

New episode! This week we are discussing Dr. Virginia Apgar, the obstetric anesthesiologist who came up with a way to assess the health of newborns. The number of lives she has touched is incalculable! Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or here! www.smartteapodcast.com/virginia-apgar

Happy birthday to Hedy Lamarr! Check out her story on episode 8 of the Smart Tea podcast! www.smartteapodcast.com/hedy-lamarr

Episode 21 of the Smart Tea podcast covers the life and science of Wilhelm Rontgen! Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts www.smartteapodcast.com/wilhelm-ront...

NEW EPISODE! With holiday travels approaching, this week's podcast episode is about Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber. His life was SO difficult but his invention literally changed the world. Episode 45 now streaming! #goodyear #podcast #stem www.smartteapodcast.com/charles-good...

Check out episode 4 for Dr. Patricia Bath’s life story! www.smartteapodcast.com/patricia-bath

Happy Bat Appreciation week! And let's not forget Dr. Donald Griffin, the ultimate bat enthusiast who figured out how bats use echolocation to navigate. Listen to his full story, now streaming wherever you get your podcasts www.smartteapodcast.com/donald-griffin

NEW EPISODE! In the spirit of Halloween, this week on the Smart Tea podcast we peek into the life of Dr. Donald Griffin, the animal behaviorist who coined the term "echolocation" for how bats are able to use sound to navigate. www.smartteapodcast.com/donald-griffin

Happy birthday to Alfred Nobel! His life was fascinating, from his invention of dynamite to founding the Nobel Prizes! Listen to his full life story in the very first episode of the podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Her work on tamoxifen transformed breast cancer treatment, yet Dr. Dora Richardson’s name faded from history. / Su trabajo transformó el tratamiento del cáncer de mama, pero el nombre de la Dra. Dora Richardson casi se perdió. lostwomenofscience-v2.webflow.io/spanish-podc...

Happy National Fossil day! It’s the perfect day to check out episode 2 of the podcast about the life of the eccentric scientist, William Buckland, who discovered the first dinosaur fossil. www.smartteapodcast.com/william-buck...

NEW EPISODE! This week we are diving into the life of Dr. Alfred Binet, one of the psychologists who developed the very first IQ test. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! www.smartteapodcast.com/alfred-binet

The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine has been awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, who discovered that regulatory T cells help the immune system determine which cells are invaders that need to be eliminated and which cells are our own! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Happy birthday to James Lind, the naval doctor who figured out that eating citrus fruit could cure scurvy! Listen to his full story in episode 39 of the Smart Tea podcast. Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts! #onthisday www.smartteapodcast.com/james-lind

"I do know that when talking to people who perhaps think very differently, the only chance you have of getting them to think in a different way is to touch the heart." — Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Thanks, Jane, for touching our hearts.

NEW EPISODE! 🌍 It's #NYCW2025 and we wanted to add the hope and optimism this week by coving the story of Dr. Mario Molina. He, along with Drs. Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen, won the Nobel Prize for discovering that CFCs were depleting the ozone layer. www.smartteapodcast.com/mario-molina

Happy birthday to Roxie Laybourne, the first forensic ornithologist! Her work in aviation saved countless lives (bird and human alike). Listen to her full story in episode 31 of the podcast! www.smartteapodcast.com/roxie-laybou... #onthisday #womeninscience

NEW EPISODE ALERT! Join us as we take a deep dive into the life of Dr. Eugenie Clark, a.k.a. The Shark Lady! 🦈 #sciencepodcast www.smartteapodcast.com/eugenie-clark

NEW EPISODE! Dr. Thomas Brock was fascinated by organisms that survive in extreme conditions. He and his student Hudson Freeze discovered Thermus Aquaticus, a microbe that could survive in near boiling water... and it ended up revolutionizing biotech. Listen now! www.smartteapodcast.com/thomas-brock

🍊NEW EPISODE! 🍊This week we are diving into the life of James Lind, a naval surgeon who set up the first ever clinical trial! His controlled experiment proved that "an orange a day keeps the scurvy away". Listen to episode 39 our now wherever you get your podcasts! www.smartteapodcast.com/james-lind

Happy birthday to Dr. José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, the neuroscientist who stopped a charging bull in it’s tracks. He invented the stimoceiver which stimulates the brain via electrical pulses. Basically mind control! Listen to the full episode here www.smartteapodcast.com/jose-delgado

Happy birthday to Ettore Majorana! This brilliant physicist made some breakthrough discoveries about atomic particles (neutrinos!) and then just vanished into thin air. Where did he go? What happened to him? Listen to episode 14 and let us know your theories! www.smartteapodcast.com/ettore-major...

NEW EPISODE! This week on the podcast, we are talking about Alessandro Volta, inventor of the first battery! Today, batteries power everything from laptops to cell phones to electric cars. Special thanks to @greenjuice.wtf for inspiring this episode! www.smartteapodcast.com/alessandro-v...

Happy birthday to Dr. William Dement, the sleep doctor! Thanks to him, sleep disorders are now a recognized field of study and we understand how sleep is regulated by our brain. Check out the full episode wherever you get your podcasts! www.smartteapodcast.com/william-dement

#onthis day we celebrate Jacques Piccard’s birthday! He was a deep sea explorer who was one of the first people to touch the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Listen to his harrowing journey in episode 27 of the Smart Tea Podcast www.smartteapodcast.com/jacques-picc...

Happy birthday to Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey! Her refusal to approve thalidomide in the US for treating pregnant women saved countless babies and their families from hardship and heartache. Listen to her full story on episode 36 of the #podcast www.smartteapodcast.com/frances-oldh...

#onthisday, we celebrate the birth of Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave! Did you know he dripped out of school and mostly taught himself about electromagnetic radiation? 🤯You can listen to his story in episode 17, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/percy-spencer

NEW EPISODE! Travel back with us to Ancient Rome where Pliny the Elder made it his mission to catalogue over 20,000 "scientific" facts, laying the framework for encyclopedias. Episode 37 is now streaming! #sciencepodcast #podcast #plinytheelder www.smartteapodcast.com/pliny-the-el...

WE'RE BACK! 🎉 Today we're talking about Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey. She denied FDA approval for thalidomide, which was meant to help with morning sickness but caused harmful effects to babies. Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast streaming platform! www.smartteapodcast.com/frances-oldh...

The Poison Squad really took one for the team. ☠️ Listen to episode 22 about Dr. Harvey Wiley and the founding the the FDA— now streaming wherever you get you podcasts! (And we’ll be releasing an episode this week about another scientist in the FDA so it’s the perfect time to get caught up!)

The Smart Tea podcast is taking a short hiatus! We will be back soon with more stories of amazing scientists soon! In the meantime, why not visit an old episode? Here’s on of our favorites! www.smartteapodcast.com/santiago-ram...

NEW EPISODE! Dr. Kamala Sohonie was the first Indian woman to get a PhD. She protested against Nobel prize laureate, CV Raman, who rejected her application to the Indian Institute of Sciences, paving the way for all #womeninstem who came after her. Listen now! www.smartteapodcast.com/kamala-sohonie

NEW EPISODE ALERT! Gustaf Dalén was literally blinded by science when an acetylene gas canister exploded in his face. On the flip side, just 2 months later he found out the won the Nobel Prize in Physics so.... Listen to the full episode now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/gustaf-dal%C...

THANK YOU to all of our listeners for helping us reach this #podcast milestone! We are looking forward to bringing you even more stories of incredible scientists throughout history in the future!

Happy Mother’s Day! Especially to Brigitte “Ita” Askonas, the “Mother of Immunology”! She mentored so many students and laid the foundation for our understanding of so many immune cells. Listen to her story, now streaming! www.smartteapodcast.com/brigitte-ask...

In this week's episode, we dive into the story of Kristian Birkeland, who figured out how an #auroraborealis forms and was nominated for the Nobel Prize 7 TIMES without winning. Learn why by listening to the full story wherever you get your podcasts! www.smartteapodcast.com/kristian-bir...

#onthisday we celebrate the birth of Dr. Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the artists, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize winner. We covered his story on episode 30 of the Smart Tea podcast, now streaming wherever you like to listen!

Happy 125th birthday, Charles Richter! Who would have guessed that is fascination with the stars would have ultimately made him a world famous seismologist? Listen to his full story from childhood to his final legacy on episode 26 of the podcast! www.smartteapodcast.com/charles-rich...

NEW EPISODE! This week, we are talking about the brilliant and quirky Stanford professor, William "Bill" Dement, whose sleep studies led to breakthroughs in understanding REM, circadian rhythms, and sleep disorders. Listen now wherever your get your podcasts! www.smartteapodcast.com/william-dement

Happy Earth Day! Guy Callendar was the first scientist to make the connection that human activity was responsible for climate change. He did this at home, with no fancy lab equipment or grants to fund his research. Want to listen to the whole story? Check out episode 9 of the Smart Tea podcast!

Listen to episode 12 of the podcast to learn all about Albert Hoffmann, the Swiss chemist who studied the effects of LSD first hand on a trippy bicycle ride home… www.smartteapodcast.com/albert-hofmann

The alleged bird strike! Another short clip from episode 31. Roxie Laybourne: The Feather Inspector is now streaming wherever you get your podcasts! Or, link to the full episode here www.smartteapodcast.com/roxie-laybou...

Happy #worldquantum day! 🥳 Here is a short clip from episode 28 where we talk about Dr. Elmer S. Imes, the spectroscopist who gave us experimental proof that the rotation of molecules is quantized. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts!

The Chicken Cannon! Who knew a 10lb bird could bring down an entire plane? Here's another clip from episode 31 of the #podcast. Listen to Roxie Laybourne: The Feather Inspector now streaming everywhere.

A short snippet from our latest podcast episode on Roxie Laybourne, the forensic ornithologist who used bird feathers to solve crime! Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts! #womeninstem #aviation

Roxie Laybourne was always interested in #aviation, but as a woman in the 1930s, becoming a pilot was not an option. So, she became an ornithologist at the Smithsonian and started helping the FAA make the skies safer for everyone. Listen to her story now! www.smartteapodcast.com/roxie-laybou...