Editor's Picks: Destinations

Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Explorers Club: Josh Gates

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Calli and Nate interview members of The Explorer’s Club, and today you’re going to hear from a man who largely represents what The Explorers Club is all about - Josh Gates.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Pee Pee Concrete, Black Diamond from Space, Electric Plane

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Today, you’ll learn about an unusual proposal to use human tinkle to make buildings on Mars, a billion-year-old black diamond with an interstellar history, and what it’s going to take for airplanes to become totally electric.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Geckos & Skin Cancer, Music in Childhood, Underwater Camera

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Today we discuss the connection between skin cancer and a leopard gecko named Mr. Frosty, how playing a musical instrument in childhood can affect brain function as we age, and how a new underwater camera can help us explore previously-unseen parts of the ocean.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Food for Climate Change, New Water Planet, Stormchasers

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We delve into which foods that research shows will become more popular as we adjust to climate change, the discovery of a new planet covered in water, and the effects of Arctic storms on ice levels.

Curiosity Daily: Glass Rain Dinosaur Pain, Snarge Science, Human Skin Cyborg

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A new archeological discovery might be from the day of the big asteroid strike that took down the dinosaurs, bird goo is helping us understand airplane accidents, and find out about the most human-like robot finger you’ve ever seen.

Curiosity Daily: Super X-Ray, Seeing Future Weather, Vitamin D-ementia

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Discover a new x-ray giving us incredible sight into ourselves, the future of weather prediction, and a surprising potential link between dementia and vitamin D.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Fake Paint Real Carbon, Vanishing Vikings, Sweeping Smarts

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Tune in to understand how new tech to find fake paintings, the mysterious reason a viking colony collapsed, and how doing chores might make kids smarter!

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Rapamycin For Rover, H-Fueled Flight, Mind-Controlled Arms

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Today, you’ll learn about how a drug that helps in human organ transplants might be able to extend the lives of man’s best friend, the airline industry's potential but difficult switch to hydrogen fuel, and how a high school student is transforming prosthetics with brain waves.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why You’re Tired After Work, Air Travel Question Answers, and a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How to Like Bitter Flavors, Airplane Ticket Price Factors, and the Physics-Challenging Hubble Constant

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Learn about how the universe’s rate of expansion could change our understanding of physics; how the saliva in your body changes to enjoy bitter flavors; and the biggest factors that determine how much you pay for a flight, along with some tips on finding the cheapest airplane tickets.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Internet Addiction, Dust in Space (w/ Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell), and Vacation Science

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Learn about whether there’s actually such a thing as internet addiction; and, research-based tips for getting the most out of your next vacation. We’ll also answer a listener question about dust in space, with some help from astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: New Algorithm Can Turn Thoughts Into Speech, Airplane Seat Belts, and the 40 Percent Rule

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Learn about a breakthrough technology that can translate thought into speech; a Navy SEAL’s method for mental toughness; and why airplane seatbelts are the way that they are.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: You’d Probably Survive A Plane Crash, Why People Still Fax, and How Spleens Can Multiply

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Learn how people survive plane crashes; why and how your spleen can multiply into accessory spleens; and why people still use fax machines.

10 Years of the Higgs Boson

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Ten years ago scientists at the Large Hadron Collider had finally found evidence for the elusive Higgs boson, a particle that plays a central role in physics. And since then…we haven’t found much.

Space Hotel Built for Luxury and Research in Low Earth Orbit by 2027

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Blasting off into low Earth orbit may not be every traveler’s idea of a quiet getaway, but builders of the first space hotel are creating the ultimate exclusive destination. Voyager Station is scheduled to be operational by 2027 and will offer $5 million luxury suites, fine dining, and live shows to space tourists.

Leaving Luxury For Love: All You Need to Know About Love Off the Grid

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From the producers of the cultural phenomenon, 90 DAY FIANCÉ comes an all-new series following couples who are committed to testing their love in the wild. LOVE OFF THE GRID premieres Sunday, January 30 on discovery+!

Calling All Explorers! Josh Gates Returns With Action-Packed Nights of Adventure

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Discovery’s ‘Adventure Wednesday’ lineup returns with all-new episodes, beginning with a globe-trotting, high-octane season of EXPEDITION UNKNOWN at 8p ET, spine-tingling new EXPEDITION X missions at 9p ET, and topping off the evening with a nightcap is JOSH GATES TONIGHT at 10p ET.

Future Professional Racers are Go-Karting on the new discovery+ series, BABY DRIVERS

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The all-new discovery+ series BABY DRIVERS is introducing us to the high-stakes world of racing and the kids behind the wheel aiming to be the next great professional racing superstar. Coming exclusively to discovery+ on Monday, May 23.