Podcast

The Human Lab

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Medicine, Science

What if the human body isn’t as perfectly designed as we think?

The Human Lab explores the strange, fascinating, and sometimes surprisingly flawed biology of being human. From regeneration and neuroscience to evolution, physiology, biochemistry, and bioengineering, each episode takes a familiar feature of the human body and asks a deeper question: Why are humans built like this?

We’ll break down the science, trace the evolutionary trade-offs behind our biology, and explore how modern science and bioengineering might one day redesign what evolution gave us.

Built by evolution. Questioned by science.

Episodes
1
Typical length
10 min
On air since
2026
Latest episode
1 month ago

Episodes

1 episode, newest first

  1. Why Can't Humans Grow Back an Arm?

    Season 1, Episode 1

    Show notes

    Wait, why can't we??

    10 min

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