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➤ Science news • Environment • Health and wellness • Technology and AI • Climate change • Space exploration • Human psychology • Nutrition and diet • Current scientific debates • Environmental impactScience Weekly is a podcast presented by The Guardian, offering episodes twice a week that delve into the latest developments and intriguing stories from the realms of science and the environment. With topics spanning a broad spectrum, the podcast investigates pressing contemporary issues, including climate change, technological advancements, and health-related discoveries. The podcast frequently addresses the impact of political developments on science, highlighting how shifts in government can influence research funding and policy directions. Episodes also explore the intersection of science and everyday life, such as the role of artificial intelligence in society, the ethics of genetic enhancement, and the implications of ultra-processed foods on health.
Listeners can expect to engage with discussions about the environment, including the challenges posed by ocean acidification and biodiversity concerns addressed in global climate summits. Additionally, the podcast examines scientific phenomena and theories, from astrophysics and cosmology to the intricacies of human biology, such as the gut microbiome and neurological bases of human behavior. There is a consistent effort to unpack complex issues in a comprehensible manner, drawing insights from experts across various fields—including neuroscientists, ecologists, and technologists—who share their knowledge and perspectives.
Moreover, Science Weekly delves into cultural and societal questions through a scientific lens, such as the psychology of happiness and the impact of social media on attention spans. This podcast engages with both groundbreaking scientific discoveries and everyday curiosities, aiming to provide listeners with an enriched understanding of the world through the lens of scientific inquiry.
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What a dark energy discovery means for the fate of the universe 2025-Mar-20 16 minutes |
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A mysterious millionaire and the quest to live under the sea – podcast 2025-Mar-18 16 minutes |
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Use it or lose it: how to sharpen your brain as you age 2025-Mar-13 14 minutes |
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Mars-a-lago? Did the red planet once have sandy beaches? 2025-Mar-11 13 minutes |
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Moon missions, Musk v scientists, sperm and longevity 2025-Mar-06 22 minutes |
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Why it’s boom time for beavers in England 2025-Mar-04 14 minutes |
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Drinks cans and chicken bones: will ‘technofossils’ be humanity’s lasting legacy? 2025-Feb-27 15 minutes |
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How Trump unleashed chaos in science 2025-Feb-25 21 minutes |
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Singing mice, constipated kids and nurture beats nature: science stories of the week 2025-Feb-20 19 minutes |
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Should we ban cats? 2025-Feb-18 16 minutes |
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What is ‘mirror life’ and why are scientists sounding the alarm? 2025-Feb-13 17 minutes |
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Don’t look up: is an asteroid heading for Earth? 2025-Feb-11 15 minutes |
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DeepSeek, weapons and climate? What’s on the table at the Paris AI summit? 2025-Feb-06 16 minutes |
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Can Trump and RFK Jr make America healthy again? 2025-Feb-04 17 minutes |
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Protein, weights and the best way to keep fit: your exercise questions answered 2025-Jan-30 22 minutes |
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Sugar, seed oils, and avoiding sickness: your health questions answered 2025-Jan-28 23 minutes |
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The science of racism, and how to fight it 2025-Jan-23 18 minutes |
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Telepathy…what’s the evidence? 2025-Jan-21 17 minutes |
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Our science predictions for 2025 2025-Jan-16 18 minutes |
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How weather ‘whiplash’ set the stage for the LA fires 2025-Jan-14 14 minutes |
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Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back? 2025-Jan-09 17 minutes |
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Are we hardwired to commit ‘deadly sins’? 2025-Jan-07 20 minutes |
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Revisited: does the evidence on glucose tracking add up? 2025-Jan-02 30 minutes |
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Revisited: just how bad is alcohol for us? 2024-Dec-31 17 minutes |
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Revisited: the endless sexual diversity of nature 2024-Dec-26 18 minutes |
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Revisited: are the world’s oldest people really that old? 2024-Dec-24 16 minutes |
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‘Soft and calorie dense’: Chris van Tulleken on how ultra-processed foods keep us hooked 2024-Dec-19 18 minutes |
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Is our model of the universe wrong? 2024-Dec-17 17 minutes |
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Does Google’s ‘mindboggling’ new chip bring quantum computers any closer? 2024-Dec-12 18 minutes |
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The science of laughing 2024-Dec-10 18 minutes |
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Revisited: Secrets of the gut microbiome 2024-Dec-05 21 minutes |
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What really helps with hangovers? 2024-Dec-03 18 minutes |
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What’s going on with fluoride? 2024-Nov-28 16 minutes |
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‘Travesty of justice’: Cop29’s controversial deal 2024-Nov-25 15 minutes |
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The science behind yo-yo diets, bird flu news and which Brits can spot a fake accent 2024-Nov-21 21 minutes |
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What does it take to become an astronaut? 2024-Nov-19 15 minutes |
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Secrets of happiness: the happiness hacks backed up by science 2024-Nov-14 16 minutes |
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Secrets of happiness: what makes a country happy? 2024-Nov-12 18 minutes |
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What will Trump 2.0 mean for science? 2024-Nov-06 17 minutes |
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Could we really live on Mars? 2024-Nov-05 21 minutes |
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Love motels and gridlocked talks: all the news from Cop16 2024-Oct-31 15 minutes |
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The US tech startup promising smarter babies 2024-Oct-29 19 minutes |
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What’s at stake for the climate if Trump wins? 2024-Oct-24 16 minutes |
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How the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs made ants into farmers 2024-Oct-22 16 minutes |
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Is sleep perfectionism making us more exhausted? 2024-Oct-17 17 minutes |
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What Milton and Helene reveal about the future of hurricanes 2024-Oct-15 15 minutes |
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All the news and science from the 2024 Nobel prizes 2024-Oct-09 23 minutes |
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Could AI help fight conspiracy theories? 2024-Oct-08 16 minutes |
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Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn 2024-Oct-03 16 minutes |
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End of an era: Britain finally says goodbye to coal 2024-Sep-30 17 minutes |
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Is the ocean becoming too acidic to sustain life? 2024-Sep-26 14 minutes |
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Are the world’s oldest people really that old? 2024-Sep-24 16 minutes |
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Live episode: will AI make a good companion? 2024-Sep-21 36 minutes |
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The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters 2024-Sep-19 14 minutes |
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From dementia to heart disease: could weight-loss jabs transform chronic conditions? 2024-Sep-17 16 minutes |
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Transparent skin, bird flu, and why girls’ brains aged during Covid: the week in science 2024-Sep-12 16 minutes |
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Into the abyss beneath Greenland’s glaciers 2024-Sep-10 15 minutes |
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The race to understand mpox 2024-Sep-05 16 minutes |
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The arrest of Telegram’s founder, and what it means for social media 2024-Sep-03 17 minutes |
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Summer picks: the science of ‘weird shit’ 2024-Aug-29 18 minutes |
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Summer picks: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? 2024-Aug-27 20 minutes |
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Summer picks: why are so many science papers being retracted? 2024-Aug-22 19 minutes |
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Summer picks: what does the science say about birth order and personality? 2024-Aug-20 16 minutes |
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What’s happened to all the butterflies? 2024-Aug-15 16 minutes |
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Just how bad is alcohol for us? 2024-Aug-13 16 minutes |
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How Team GB’s psychologist gets the athletes mentally ready 2024-Aug-08 16 minutes |
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Secrets of ageing: making our last years count 2024-Aug-06 18 minutes |
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Secrets of ageing: how long could I live? 2024-Aug-01 23 minutes |
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Secrets of ageing: what makes me age? 2024-Jul-30 20 minutes |
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Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? 2024-Jul-25 15 minutes |
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George Monbiot on the record jail terms given to Just Stop Oil activists 2024-Jul-23 16 minutes |
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Is there any point in taking multivitamins? 2024-Jul-18 15 minutes |
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Can the climate survive AI’s thirst for energy? 2024-Jul-16 18 minutes |
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‘Lesbian’ seagulls and ‘gay’ rams: the endless sexual diversity of nature 2024-Jul-11 18 minutes |
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ZOE and personalised nutrition: does the evidence on glucose tracking add up? 2024-Jul-09 29 minutes |
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‘Spermageddon’: is male fertility really in crisis? 2024-Jul-04 16 minutes |
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Caroline Lucas on climate, culture wars, and 14 years as the only Green MP 2024-Jul-02 18 minutes |
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The surprising psychology behind extremism, and how politics is driving it 2024-Jun-27 17 minutes |
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The infection that affects half of women and its link to antibiotic resistance 2024-Jun-25 16 minutes |
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A black hole awakens and why some people avoid Covid: the week in science 2024-Jun-20 19 minutes |
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What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? 2024-Jun-18 20 minutes |
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Are cold and wet UK summers here to stay? 2024-Jun-13 15 minutes |
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Slaughter-free sausages: is lab-grown meat the future? 2024-Jun-11 14 minutes |
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Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? 2024-Jun-06 15 minutes |
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Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will teach us what we need to do’ 2024-Jun-04 20 minutes |
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Election risks, safety summits and Scarlett Johansson: the week in AI 2024-May-30 18 minutes |
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Concrete without CO2: can our biggest building material go green? 2024-May-28 14 minutes |
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Why is air turbulence getting worse? 2024-May-23 13 minutes |
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In their prime: how trillions of cicadas pop up right on time 2024-May-21 16 minutes |
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AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science? 2024-May-16 16 minutes |
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Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? 2024-May-14 15 minutes |
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How much protein is too much? 2024-May-09 15 minutes |
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Why are the world’s cities sinking? 2024-May-07 16 minutes |
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The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines 2024-May-02 13 minutes |
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The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off the tap? 2024-Apr-30 15 minutes |
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From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? 2024-Apr-25 15 minutes |
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Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? 2024-Apr-23 20 minutes |
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Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? 2024-Apr-18 16 minutes |
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Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world 2024-Apr-16 16 minutes |
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The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won 2024-Apr-11 15 minutes |
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Remembering physicist Peter Higgs 2024-Apr-10 17 minutes |
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Horny tortoises and solar mysteries: what scientists can learn from a total eclipse 2024-Apr-09 17 minutes |
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The science of ‘weird shit’: why we believe in fate, ghosts and conspiracy theories 2024-Apr-04 18 minutes |
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Hypermobility: a blessing or a curse? 2024-Apr-02 15 minutes |
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The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS 2024-Mar-28 15 minutes |
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What could a severe solar storm do to Earth, and are we prepared? 2024-Mar-26 14 minutes |
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Havana syndrome: will we ever understand what happened? 2024-Mar-21 16 minutes |
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Should forests have rights? 2024-Mar-19 16 minutes |
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A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science 2024-Mar-14 19 minutes |
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Why do we lose our hair as we age, and what can we do about it? – podcast 2024-Mar-12 17 minutes |
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What’s behind the rapid rise of cancer in the under-50s? 2024-Mar-07 14 minutes |
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Classic older child? What the science says about birth order and personality 2024-Mar-05 16 minutes |
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The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue 2024-Mar-02 14 minutes |
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The debilitating impact of tinnitus, and how a new app could help 2024-Feb-29 19 minutes |
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How green are electric cars? 2024-Feb-27 16 minutes |
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Mistakes, fakes, and a giant rat penis: why are so many science papers being retracted? 2024-Feb-22 19 minutes |
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Nitazenes and xylazine: what’s behind the rise of dangerous synthetic drugs? 2024-Feb-20 16 minutes |
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What apes can tell us about the origins of teasing 2024-Feb-15 14 minutes |
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Retinol, acids and serums for kids? A dermatologist’s guide to age appropriate skincare 2024-Feb-13 14 minutes |
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Why are we still waiting for a male contraceptive pill? 2024-Feb-08 16 minutes |
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What happens now bird flu has reached the Antarctic? 2024-Feb-06 13 minutes |
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A fasting prime minister and a mind-reading billionaire: the week in science 2024-Feb-01 16 minutes |
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Secrets of the microbiome: the skin 2024-Jan-30 15 minutes |
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Secrets of the microbiome: the vagina 2024-Jan-25 15 minutes |
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Secrets of the microbiome: the gut 2024-Jan-23 21 minutes |
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How to stop doomscrolling and reclaim your brain 2024-Jan-18 16 minutes |
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Is guilt-free flying on the horizon? 2024-Jan-16 17 minutes |
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Our science predictions for 2024 2024-Jan-11 16 minutes |
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What the science says about how to get active (and make it stick) 2024-Jan-09 16 minutes |
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Revisited: Weight of the world, the climate scientists who hold out hope 2024-Jan-04 34 minutes |
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Weight of the world revisited: the climate scientists who copped it 2024-Jan-03 42 minutes |
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Revisited: Weight of the world – the climate scientists who saw the crisis coming 2024-Jan-02 35 minutes |
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Best of 2023, Killing the Skydancer: episode three, An Open Secret 2023-Dec-28 27 minutes |
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Best of 2023, Killing the Skydancer: episode two, The Perfect Crime 2023-Dec-27 27 minutes |
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Best of 2023: Killing the Skydancer episode one, Susie’s chicks 2023-Dec-26 22 minutes |
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All the buzz and no hangover? The next generation of alcohol-free drinks 2023-Dec-21 19 minutes |
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Can machines ever be like us? Prof Michael Wooldridge on the future of AI 2023-Dec-19 19 minutes |
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Cop28: what just happened? 2023-Dec-13 13 minutes |
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The incredible world of animal perception, and what it can teach us 2023-Dec-12 18 minutes |
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All the drama from the first week of Cop28 2023-Dec-07 16 minutes |
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Why are we still struggling to get contraception right? 2023-Dec-05 16 minutes |
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Everything you need to know about Cop28 as the summit begins 2023-Nov-30 16 minutes |
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Weight of the world – the climate scientists who saw the crisis coming 2023-Nov-28 36 minutes |
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What have we learned from the James Webb space telescope so far? 2023-Nov-23 15 minutes |
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Superyachts and private jets: the carbon impact of the ‘polluter elite’ 2023-Nov-21 18 minutes |
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The mysteries of volcanoes: what’s going on beneath the ground in Iceland? 2023-Nov-16 18 minutes |
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CBD: what’s the science behind the wellness trend? 2023-Nov-14 14 minutes |
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Why is the Amazon rainforest drying up? 2023-Nov-09 16 minutes |
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Understanding the science of addiction 2023-Nov-07 16 minutes |
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Nuclear fusion, new drugs, better batteries: how AI will transform science 2023-Nov-02 18 minutes |
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What could near-death experiences teach us about life, death and consciousness? 2023-Oct-31 16 minutes |
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Black holes, but backwards: unlocking the mysteries of white holes 2023-Oct-26 21 minutes |
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‘We’ve lost control’: what happens when the west Antarctic ice sheet melts? 2023-Oct-24 15 minutes |
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Could AI help diagnose schizophrenia? 2023-Oct-19 15 minutes |
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Scarier than lions: how fear of ‘super predator’ humans is shaping the animal kingdom 2023-Oct-17 15 minutes |
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Inside the UK’s first gaming disorder clinic 2023-Oct-12 20 minutes |
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What’s really going on with Paris’s bedbug crisis? 2023-Oct-10 19 minutes |
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All the news and science from the Nobel Prizes 2023-Oct-05 20 minutes |
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Everything you need to know about the menopause 2023-Oct-03 20 minutes |
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Could we end migraines for good? 2023-Sep-28 16 minutes |
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Deja vu’s lesser-known opposite: why do we experience jamais vu? 2023-Sep-26 15 minutes |
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The mystery of Europe’s heat death hotspot 2023-Sep-21 15 minutes |
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Will our bees survive the Asian hornet invasion? 2023-Sep-19 17 minutes |
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Should American bully XLs be banned? 2023-Sep-14 19 minutes |
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Teen mental health and social media: what does the evidence tell us? 2023-Sep-12 19 minutes |
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First African climate summit: can development and climate action coexist? 2023-Sep-07 19 minutes |
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Everything you need to know about the new Covid variant 2023-Sep-05 15 minutes |
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Why are scientists so excited about the vagus nerve? – podcast 2023-Aug-31 12 minutes |
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Iris scans: proof of our humanity in an AI future, or marketing gimmick? 2023-Aug-29 17 minutes |
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The Y chromosome has finally been sequenced: here’s why it matters 2023-Aug-24 17 minutes |
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Apple cider vinegar gummies: what’s the science behind the weight loss trend? 2023-Aug-22 15 minutes |
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Killing the Skydancer: episode three, An Open Secret 2023-Aug-17 26 minutes |
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Killing the Skydancer: episode two, The Perfect Crime 2023-Aug-16 26 minutes |
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Killing the Skydancer: episode one, Susie’s Chicks 2023-Aug-15 21 minutes |
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Summer picks: are we any closer to understanding long Covid? 2023-Aug-10 17 minutes |
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Summer picks: should we ban artificial grass? 2023-Aug-08 15 minutes |
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Summer picks: could the multiverse be real? 2023-Aug-03 18 minutes |
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Summer picks: what’s the reality behind the ‘Love Island smile’? 2023-Aug-01 12 minutes |
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Canadian lake could mark the start of new geological epoch 2023-Jul-27 15 minutes |
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What can doppelgangers tell us about nature v nurture? 2023-Jul-25 14 minutes |
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Extreme heat: what does it do to us and how can we adapt? 2023-Jul-20 22 minutes |
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What’s at stake if we mine the deep sea? 2023-Jul-18 18 minutes |
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Has a 25-year-old bet taken us a step closer to understanding consciousness? 2023-Jul-13 14 minutes |
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The awe-inspiring intelligence of octopuses 2023-Jul-11 18 minutes |
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Why inflammation matters, and what we can do to fight it 2023-Jul-06 19 minutes |
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Why are windfarms turning record profits for the crown estate? 2023-Jul-04 16 minutes |
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Euclid: will the mission uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy? 2023-Jun-29 18 minutes |
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Why are orcas attacking boats and is the behaviour spreading? 2023-Jun-27 18 minutes |
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Synthetic human embryos: can the law keep pace with the science? 2023-Jun-22 16 minutes |
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Cybercrime: what does psychology have to do with phishing? 2023-Jun-20 18 minutes |
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Will new treatments change the way we view cancer for good? 2023-Jun-15 16 minutes |
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Kakhovka dam destruction: why is Ukraine calling it ‘ecocide’? 2023-Jun-13 16 minutes |
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Why is Nasa looking into UFOs and what has it found so far? 2023-Jun-08 17 minutes |
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‘It’s taught me everything about living’: Rachel Clarke on delivering palliative care from the NHS to Ukraine 2023-Jun-06 24 minutes |
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Why are food allergies on the rise and is a cure on the horizon? 2023-Jun-01 16 minutes |
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Six months to Cop28: will the most vital summit yet make meaningful progress? 2023-May-30 15 minutes |
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Japanese knotweed: why is it so damaging and can it be stopped? 2023-May-25 18 minutes |
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What will we eat in a post-1.5C world? 2023-May-23 23 minutes |
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Menopause: could a new brain-based treatment cure hot flushes? 2023-May-18 15 minutes |
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Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? 2023-May-16 17 minutes |
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First UK baby born with DNA from three people: what happens next? 2023-May-11 15 minutes |
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Will psychedelic drugs transform mental health treatment? 2023-May-09 16 minutes |
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How AI is making non-invasive mind reading a reality 2023-May-04 17 minutes |
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Can cities help us fight climate change? 2023-May-02 19 minutes |
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Europe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant: can it be stopped? 2023-Apr-27 13 minutes |
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Why are black women four times more likely to die from childbirth? 2023-Apr-25 16 minutes |
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How did ultra-processed foods take over, and what are they doing to us? 2023-Apr-20 18 minutes |
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Could virtual reality gaming help people overcome anxiety? 2023-Apr-18 12 minutes |
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Juice Mission: why has the search for alien life moved to Jupiter’s moons? 2023-Apr-13 13 minutes |
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Should we ban artificial grass? 2023-Apr-11 14 minutes |
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What’s feeding the 5,000-mile blob of seaweed growing in the Atlantic? 2023-Apr-05 16 minutes |
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Why does the UK government want to ban laughing gas? 2023-Apr-04 14 minutes |
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Glass beads full of water on the moon: what does the discovery mean for space exploration? 2023-Mar-30 15 minutes |
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Could faecal transplants be the next frontier in health? 2023-Mar-28 16 minutes |
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Three years on: are we any closer to understanding long Covid? 2023-Mar-23 17 minutes |
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Willow Project: what could the ‘carbon bomb’ mean for the environment? 2023-Mar-21 16 minutes |
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How will gene editing change medicine and who will benefit? 2023-Mar-16 16 minutes |
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The Last of Us: could the next pandemic be fungal? 2023-Mar-14 14 minutes |
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Everything Everywhere All at Once: could the multiverse be real? 2023-Mar-09 18 minutes |
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Matt Hancock’s messages: how scientifically literate should our politicians be? 2023-Mar-07 12 minutes |
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What should we do about the rise in children vaping? 2023-Mar-02 15 minutes |
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What are ‘forever chemicals’ and why are they causing alarm? 2023-Feb-28 14 minutes |
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15-minute cities: mundane planning concept or global conspiracy? 2023-Feb-23 15 minutes |
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Are weight loss injections the solution to the obesity crisis? 2023-Feb-21 13 minutes |
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Online misogyny: what impact is it having on children? 2023-Feb-16 14 minutes |
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Antibiotic resistance: where do we go next? 2023-Feb-14 13 minutes |
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What can we really learn from home blood testing kits? 2023-Feb-09 16 minutes |
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How has the Russia-Ukraine war disrupted science? 2023-Feb-07 13 minutes |
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Can we restore England’s lost wildlife? 2023-Feb-02 14 minutes |
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How to spot the exotic green comet (and what might get in the way) 2023-Jan-31 12 minutes |
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How will ChatGPT transform creative work? 2023-Jan-26 15 minutes |
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Overcoming burnout: a psychologist’s guide 2023-Jan-24 13 minutes |
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Could the return of El Niño in 2023 take us above 1.5C of warming? 2023-Jan-19 12 minutes |
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What’s the reality behind the ‘Love Island smile’? 2023-Jan-17 11 minutes |
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How did we save the ozone layer? 2023-Jan-12 15 minutes |
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Our science predictions for 2023 2023-Jan-10 15 minutes |
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Best of 2022: James Webb space telescope – thousands of galaxies in a grain of sand 2023-Jan-05 15 minutes |
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Best of 2022: Why aren’t women being diagnosed with ADHD? 2023-Jan-03 15 minutes |
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Are we finally nearing a treatment for Alzheimer’s? 2022-Dec-29 14 minutes |
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Exploded heads and missing fingers: Dame Sue Black on her most memorable cases 2022-Dec-27 18 minutes |
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The science of how to give better gifts 2022-Dec-22 13 minutes |
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What does Cop15’s buzzword ‘nature positive’ mean? 2022-Dec-20 14 minutes |
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‘Nothing is impossible’: the major breakthrough in nuclear fusion 2022-Dec-15 14 minutes |
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Will Cop15 tackle the growing problem of invasive species? 2022-Dec-13 14 minutes |
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‘The biggest meeting for humanity’: Why Cop15 has to succeed 2022-Dec-07 13 minutes |
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Why are children in the UK at risk of serious strep A infections? 2022-Dec-06 16 minutes |
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‘A possible extinction event’: the UK’s worst bird flu outbreak 2022-Dec-01 15 minutes |
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What are leap seconds, and why have we scrapped them? 2022-Nov-29 11 minutes |
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How should we prepare for an ageing global population? 2022-Nov-24 13 minutes |
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Will the Qatar World Cup really be carbon neutral? 2022-Nov-22 15 minutes |
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Cop27: where do climate scientists find hope? 2022-Nov-17 15 minutes |
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Cop27: has there been any progress in Sharm el-Sheikh? 2022-Nov-15 16 minutes |
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Cop27: Is it time to rethink endless economic growth? 2022-Nov-09 14 minutes |
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Cop27: Who are the real climate leaders? 2022-Nov-08 17 minutes |
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Cop27: a chance for change – or more of the same? 2022-Nov-03 14 minutes |
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Could a prescription of surfing help with depression? 2022-Nov-01 14 minutes |
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Stories from a medieval graveyard: worms, wounds, and wonky toes 2022-Oct-27 16 minutes |
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Is it ethical to put human brain cells in a rat? 2022-Oct-25 13 minutes |
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Can rituals help with our grief for the natural world? 2022-Oct-20 14 minutes |
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How a scientific scandal could force sport to rethink concussion 2022-Oct-18 14 minutes |
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Could moth larvae be the answer to our plastic problem? 2022-Oct-13 12 minutes |
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Why does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter? 2022-Oct-11 12 minutes |
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Why is the government in Iran shutting down the internet? 2022-Oct-06 15 minutes |
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Covid-19: is there a ‘twindemic’ coming? 2022-Oct-04 11 minutes |
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Why did Nasa smash its spacecraft into an asteroid? 2022-Sep-29 14 minutes |
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How a man and his dogs discovered the cause of narcolepsy 2022-Sep-27 17 minutes |
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Why is the NHS in crisis, and can it be fixed? 2022-Sep-22 16 minutes |
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How will Jacob Rees-Mogg tackle the energy and climate crises? 2022-Sep-20 17 minutes |
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How air pollution is changing our view of cancer 2022-Sep-15 11 minutes |
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Why do we grieve the death of public figures? 2022-Sep-13 11 minutes |
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Could a new vaccine tackle rising rates of Lyme disease? 2022-Sep-08 16 minutes |
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What could go wrong at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant? 2022-Sep-06 13 minutes |
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100 days until Cop15: what next to save nature? 2022-Sep-01 13 minutes |
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What is raw sewage doing to the UK’s rivers and seas? 2022-Aug-30 12 minutes |
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What’s going on with UK teenagers’ mental health? 2022-Aug-25 16 minutes |
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How did mammals come to rule the world? 2022-Aug-23 14 minutes |
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From the archive: Will Silicon Valley help us live to 200 and beyond? – podcast 2022-Aug-18 12 minutes |
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From the archive: What are the hidden costs of our obsession with fish oil pills? 2022-Aug-16 16 minutes |
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From the archive: Are western lifestyles causing a rise in autoimmune diseases? 2022-Aug-11 11 minutes |
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From the archive: Why are climate and conservation scientists taking to the streets? 2022-Aug-09 15 minutes |
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James Lovelock and the legacy of his Gaia hypothesis 2022-Aug-04 16 minutes |
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Is it time for a complete overhaul of car wreck rescue techniques? 2022-Aug-02 11 minutes |
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Which Tory leadership candidate is the ‘greenest’? 2022-Jul-28 12 minutes |
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Learning how to cope with ‘climate doom’ 2022-Jul-26 14 minutes |
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Have Biden’s climate pledges just been killed off? 2022-Jul-21 12 minutes |
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‘Falling from the sky in distress’: the deadly bird flu outbreak sweeping the world 2022-Jul-19 14 minutes |
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James Webb space telescope: thousands of galaxies in a grain of sand 2022-Jul-14 14 minutes |
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Why have Australian honeybees been put into lockdown? Podcast 2022-Jul-12 13 minutes |
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Roe v Wade: why vasectomies are no answer to abortion restrictions 2022-Jul-07 16 minutes |
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New Covid wave: Is this what ‘living with covid’ looks like? 2022-Jul-05 13 minutes |
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Is polio in our sewage as worrying as it sounds? 2022-Jun-30 11 minutes |
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Shitcoins: are pointless cryptocurrencies a scam or a gamble? 2022-Jun-28 16 minutes |
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Rewilding with wolves: can they help rebuild ecosystems? 2022-Jun-23 12 minutes |
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Seagrass meadows: can we rewild one of the world’s best carbon sinks? 2022-Jun-21 16 minutes |
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How Google’s chatbot works – and why it isn’t sentient 2022-Jun-16 11 minutes |
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How much does smoking damage our mental health? 2022-Jun-14 12 minutes |
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Why would Boris Johnson want to bring back imperial units? 2022-Jun-09 15 minutes |
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Is pollution making us fat? 2022-Jun-07 12 minutes |
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The hidden science of bisexuality with Julia Shaw 2022-Jun-02 19 minutes |
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Why are there so few drugs you can take during pregnancy? 2022-May-31 12 minutes |