Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights

<p>On this week’s show: A rundown of our favorite online news stories, and some of our favorite moments on the podcast this year</p> <p>This is our last show of the year and it’s a fun one! Dave Grimm, our online news editor, gives a tour of the <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/our-favorite-science-news-stories-2022">top online stories of the year</a>, from playful bumble bees to parasite-ridden friars.</p> <p>Then, host Sarah Crespi looks back at some amazing conversations from the podcast this year, including answers to a few questions she never thought she’d be asking. Highlights include why we aren’t just shooting nuclear waste into space, and how mapping ant diversity is like mapping the early universe.</p> <p>Past shows mentioned in this episode:</p> <p><br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/window-live-brains-and-what-saliva-tells-babies-about-human-relationships">What saliva tells babies about human relationships</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/invasive-grasses-get-help-fire-and-global-map-ant-diversity">A global map of ant diversity</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/fecal-transplants-pill-form-and-gut-bacteria-nourish-hibernating-squirrels">Gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels </a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/securing-nuclear-waste-100-000-years-and-link-between-math-literacy-and-life">Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/using-quantum-tools-track-dark-matter-why-rabies-remains-and-book-series-science-and">Why rabies remains </a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/staking-out-start-anthropocene-and-why-sunscreen-bad-coral">Why sunscreen is bad for coral</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/saving-spix-s-macaw-and-protecting-energy-grid">Saving the Spix’s macaw</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/podcast/linking-violence-myanmar-fossil-amber-research-a