Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science

Science Magazine Podcast · Jun 5, 2025 · 42m

First up on the podcast, we hear from Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the tricky problem of regional climate prediction. Although global climate change models have held up for the most part, predicting what will happen at smaller scales, such as the level of a city, is proving a stubborn challenge. Just increasing the resolution of global models requires intense computing power, so researchers and city planners are looking to other approaches to find out what’s in store for cities.

Next on the show, a visit to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where researchers have found evidence that the…