Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Latest science and technology news • Animal intelligence and behavior • Space exploration and discoveries • Climate change impacts and solutions • Medical advancements • AI and robotics • Historical and cultural insights
This podcast, titled "New Scientist Podcasts," delivers a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary scientific topics and fascinating discoveries. The podcast is positioned as catering to listeners who possess a deep curiosity about the world of science.
This podcast consistently delves into the latest advancements and news in a variety of scientific fields, including space exploration, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, and environmental science. Episodes often highlight groundbreaking research and innovative technology, such as fusion energy breakthroughs, AI developments, and medical advancements like gene therapy and the potential reversal of blindness.
Listeners can expect to hear about intriguing discoveries in astronomy and space missions, from lunar expeditions to theories about extraterrestrial life and the dynamics of black holes. The podcast also frequently addresses ecological and environmental issues, discussing climate change, biodiversity, and conservation efforts.
There is a strong emphasis on understanding the natural world, with topics ranging from animal communication and behavior to the genetic and evolutionary underpinnings of life on Earth. Episodes explore the intersections of science with human health and society, examining the implications of new medical research, the psychological impacts of social phenomena, and the ethical considerations around emerging technologies.
The podcast also occasionally ventures into more speculative and imaginative realms of science, considering hypothetical scenarios and theoretical concepts that challenge conventional thinking. This is coupled with a cultural component, where the hosts discuss the relevance of science fiction and its relationship with real-world science, as well as interviews with authors and experts who bring diverse perspectives to scientific discourse.
Overall, the podcast presents a blend of serious scientific inquiry, practical health and environmental discussions, and entertaining explorations of speculative science, offering a comprehensive and engaging experience for science enthusiasts.
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Episodes:
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Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox
2024-Jun-28
23 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism
2024-Jun-24
23 minutes
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Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon
2024-Jun-21
24 minutes
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CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool
2024-Jun-17
38 minutes
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Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report
2024-Jun-14
36 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?
2024-Jun-10
26 minutes
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Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely
2024-Jun-07
28 minutes
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CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger
2024-Jun-03
41 minutes
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Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?
2024-May-31
33 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet
2024-May-28
24 minutes
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Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour
2024-May-24
27 minutes
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CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction
2024-May-20
29 minutes
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Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids
2024-May-17
28 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms
2024-May-14
34 minutes
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Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak
2024-May-10
25 minutes
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CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change
2024-May-07
32 minutes
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Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ
2024-May-03
29 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse
2024-Apr-29
23 minutes
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Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants
2024-Apr-26
33 minutes
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CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence
2024-Apr-22
28 minutes
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Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?
2024-Apr-19
33 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole
2024-Apr-15
24 minutes
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Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms
2024-Apr-12
29 minutes
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CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation
2024-Apr-08
39 minutes
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Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure
2024-Apr-05
30 minutes
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Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet
2024-Apr-01
18 minutes
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Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous
2024-Mar-29
26 minutes
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CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign
2024-Mar-26
33 minutes
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Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics
2024-Mar-22
27 minutes
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Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer
2024-Mar-19
16 minutes
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Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis
2024-Mar-15
26 minutes
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CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are
2024-Mar-12
35 minutes
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Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture
2024-Mar-08
27 minutes
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Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological
2024-Mar-05
16 minutes
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Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing
2024-Mar-01
26 minutes
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CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind
2024-Feb-27
45 minutes
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Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage
2024-Feb-23
24 minutes
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Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes
2024-Feb-21
17 minutes
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Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages
2024-Feb-16
23 minutes
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CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’
2024-Feb-13
20 minutes
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Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy
2024-Feb-09
23 minutes
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Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos
2024-Feb-06
17 minutes
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Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs
2024-Feb-02
21 minutes
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CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’
2024-Jan-30
26 minutes
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Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time
2024-Jan-26
23 minutes
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Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets
2024-Jan-23
16 minutes
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Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object
2024-Jan-19
23 minutes
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CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch
2024-Jan-16
22 minutes
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Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork
2024-Jan-12
22 minutes
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Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical
2024-Jan-09
17 minutes
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Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe
2024-Jan-05
30 minutes
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Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins
2024-Jan-02
21 minutes
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Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes
2023-Dec-29
27 minutes
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CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads
2023-Dec-26
28 minutes
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Best of 2023, part 1: Euclid telescope’s big year; AI is everywhere (for better and worse); why doctors searched their poo for tiny toys
2023-Dec-22
27 minutes
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CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions
2023-Dec-19
37 minutes
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Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future
2023-Dec-17
23 minutes
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Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe
2023-Dec-15
24 minutes
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CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback
2023-Dec-12
15 minutes
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Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high
2023-Dec-10
24 minutes
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Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
2023-Dec-08
26 minutes
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CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
2023-Dec-05
24 minutes
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Weekly: Biggest climate summit since Paris; thanking dirt for all life on Earth; what if another star flew past our solar system?
2023-Dec-01
22 minutes
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Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift
2023-Nov-28
21 minutes
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Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth
2023-Nov-24
24 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two
2023-Nov-22
14 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One
2023-Nov-21
18 minutes
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Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)
2023-Nov-17
28 minutes
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CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey
2023-Nov-14
21 minutes
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Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy
2023-Nov-10
26 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt
2023-Nov-07
15 minutes
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Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads
2023-Nov-03
26 minutes
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CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts
2023-Oct-31
29 minutes
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Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer
2023-Oct-27
28 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds
2023-Oct-23
24 minutes
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Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator
2023-Oct-20
28 minutes
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CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society
2023-Oct-17
32 minutes
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Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?
2023-Oct-13
30 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon
2023-Oct-10
21 minutes
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Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles
2023-Oct-06
34 minutes
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CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history
2023-Oct-02
26 minutes
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Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?
2023-Sep-29
24 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again
2023-Sep-25
20 minutes
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Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn
2023-Sep-22
25 minutes
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CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions
2023-Sep-18
22 minutes
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Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos
2023-Sep-15
28 minutes
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Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto
2023-Sep-11
21 minutes
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Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age
2023-Sep-08
29 minutes
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CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World
2023-Sep-05
34 minutes
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Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume
2023-Sep-01
27 minutes
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Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong
2023-Aug-28
14 minutes
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Weekly: India lands on the moon; Placenta cells could heal the heart; Mind-altering drugs and binge drinking on the rise
2023-Aug-25
25 minutes
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CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023
2023-Aug-22
28 minutes
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Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy
2023-Aug-18
32 minutes
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Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse
2023-Aug-14
16 minutes
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Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about
2023-Aug-11
25 minutes
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CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
2023-Aug-07
19 minutes
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Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2
2023-Aug-04
32 minutes
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Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet
2023-Jul-31
21 minutes
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Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle
2023-Jul-28
27 minutes
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CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”
2023-Jul-24
25 minutes
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Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats
2023-Jul-21
30 minutes
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Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun
2023-Jul-17
19 minutes
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Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize
2023-Jul-14
29 minutes
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CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet
2023-Jul-11
19 minutes
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Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing
2023-Jul-07
24 minutes
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Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins
2023-Jun-30
30 minutes
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Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies.
2023-Jun-22
29 minutes
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Weekly: Claims that secret alien technology is held in the US; link between gut bacteria and intelligence; the parasite that makes ants live longer
2023-Jun-15
22 minutes
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#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions
2023-Jun-13
18 minutes
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#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter
2023-Jun-08
20 minutes
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#197 Ancient human Homo naledi had advanced culture; AI passes the world’s biggest Turing Test; climate change hits New York
2023-Jun-08
29 minutes
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#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically
2023-Jun-05
28 minutes
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#195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat
2023-Jun-01
23 minutes
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#194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate
2023-May-26
31 minutes
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#193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink
2023-May-25
28 minutes
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#192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death
2023-May-18
18 minutes
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#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science
2023-May-11
18 minutes
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#190 Problems for lab-grown meat; do we need vitamin D supplements?; waking the sleeping Arctic ocean; fish sing for Eurovision
2023-May-11
27 minutes
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#189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors
2023-May-04
22 minutes
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#188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut
2023-May-04
21 minutes
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#187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben
2023-Apr-28
13 minutes
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#186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA
2023-Apr-27
28 minutes
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#185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans
2023-Apr-26
19 minutes
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#184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health
2023-Apr-23
13 minutes
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#183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism?
2023-Apr-20
18 minutes
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#182 3D-printing inside living organisms; what ChatGPT means for human intelligence; why insects fly towards light; carbon storage in the oceans
2023-Apr-20
28 minutes
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#181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter
2023-Apr-13
29 minutes
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#180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō
2023-Apr-06
21 minutes
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#179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth
2023-Mar-30
31 minutes
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#178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023
2023-Mar-23
28 minutes
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#177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard
2023-Mar-21
17 minutes
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#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background
2023-Mar-16
28 minutes
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#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold
2023-Mar-15
25 minutes
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#174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science
2023-Mar-09
26 minutes
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#173 Understanding chronic health conditions; Artificial sweetener linked to heart attacks; Re-thinking galaxies; UN geoengineering report
2023-Mar-02
28 minutes
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#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health
2023-Feb-28
17 minutes
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#171 Earth’s mysterious “dark biome” and the search for life on Mars; Quantum computers; Judge Dredd predicts the future - the latest news in science
2023-Feb-23
24 minutes
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#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas
2023-Feb-20
22 minutes
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#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers
2023-Feb-16
28 minutes
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#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic
2023-Feb-13
17 minutes
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#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science
2023-Feb-09
19 minutes
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#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease?
2023-Feb-07
29 minutes
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#165 Water dowsing to detect leaks; Astroforge going asteroid mining; AI discovers new bacteria-killing proteins – the latest news in science
2023-Feb-02
24 minutes
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#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse
2023-Jan-30
18 minutes
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#163 Antidepressants; Exoplanets; California’s megadroughts – the latest news in science
2023-Jan-26
22 minutes
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#162 How to trigger positive tipping points to tackle climate change
2023-Jan-25
27 minutes
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#161 What they don’t tell you about the climate crisis with Assaad Razzouk
2023-Jan-23
19 minutes
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#160 Rejuvenation treatments; world to breach 1.5 degrees of global heating
2023-Jan-19
26 minutes
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#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia
2023-Jan-16
18 minutes
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#158 Exxon’s 1970s predictions for climate change were super accurate
2023-Jan-12
17 minutes
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#157 Computer lawyer takes first court case; brains speed up with age
2023-Jan-12
25 minutes
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#156: What you need to know in science and culture for 2023
2023-Jan-05
26 minutes
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#155: Our five favourite New Scientist long-reads from 2022
2022-Dec-25
26 minutes
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#154: News review 2022 - stand-out moments and funniest stories
2022-Dec-21
30 minutes
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#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate change
2022-Dec-15
33 minutes
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#152 Ancient species of human could control fire; complete brain map of fly
2022-Dec-07
31 minutes
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#151 COP15: the meeting to save life on Earth; anti-ageing properties of urine
2022-Dec-01
25 minutes
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#150 Megadrought in the US; how to move an elephant
2022-Nov-24
26 minutes
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#149 COP27 treaty emerges; a method to discover wormholes
2022-Nov-17
31 minutes
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#148 Climate action from COP27; world population reaches 8 billion
2022-Nov-10
28 minutes
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#147 The oldest yew trees in Europe – and how to save them
2022-Nov-07
11 minutes
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#146 Accelerated end to fossil fuel; double discovery on Mars
2022-Nov-03
22 minutes
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#145 COP27 climate summit preview; unexpected animal sounds
2022-Oct-27
22 minutes
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#144 Geoengineering plan to slow the melt of arctic ice
2022-Oct-23
25 minutes
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#143 Bird flu sweeps UK; secrets of the Neanderthal family
2022-Oct-20
26 minutes
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#142: We need to talk about mental health and climate change
2022-Oct-17
17 minutes
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#141 Energy threat to international security; a new form of multiplication
2022-Oct-13
30 minutes
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#140 New Scientist Live Ask-us-Anything bonus episode
2022-Oct-11
21 minutes
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#139 Gas leak impact on climate change; a new way to explain life
2022-Oct-06
28 minutes
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#138 UK government’s attack on nature; when you can’t stop laughing
2022-Sep-29
23 minutes
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#137 How to turn the shipping industry green; Enceladus passes habitability test
2022-Sep-22
26 minutes
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#136 A step towards building artificial life; solar-powered slugs
2022-Sep-15
23 minutes
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#135 The Amazon passes a tipping point; a place to live only 100 light years away
2022-Sep-08
27 minutes
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#134 Artemis moon mission; decoding the dreams of mice
2022-Aug-31
25 minutes
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#133 A treatment for food allergies; predicting earthquakes
2022-Aug-24
26 minutes
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#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys
2022-Aug-17
28 minutes
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#131 Why thinking hard tires you out; game-changing US climate bill
2022-Aug-11
30 minutes
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#130 How to reverse death; Neil Gaiman on Sandman; AlphaFold and biology’s revolution; life in the multiverse with Laura Mersini-Houghton
2022-Aug-04
33 minutes
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#129 BlueDot special: Mysteries of the universe; stories of hope and joy; growing tiny human brains; solving global problems
2022-Jul-28
45 minutes
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#128 Extreme heatwaves; China’s space station launch; covid’s effects in pregnancy; a black hole symphony
2022-Jul-21
23 minutes
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#127: Pig hearts transplanted into dead people; James Webb Space Telescope gives best-ever view of the universe; boosting wheat genetics to feed the world
2022-Jul-14
27 minutes
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#126: Are we stuck in a time loop? Legal action against climate change; covid fifth wave; time loop are we stuck?
2022-Jul-07
30 minutes
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#125: Poo transplants cure IBS; climate change shrinks the human niche; CRISPR babies; monkeypox latest
2022-Jun-30
28 minutes
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#124: Lopsided universe; solar activity affects heart health; hero rats trained for rescue missions
2022-Jun-23
28 minutes
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#123: ‘Sentient’ claim for Google AI; spacecraft spots starquakes; the rise of the mammals; hot brains
2022-Jun-16
28 minutes
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#122: The science of Top Gun; the 1.5°C climate goal is out of reach; return to the moon; hepatitis mystery
2022-Jun-09
27 minutes
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#121: Creation of artificial life; gene therapy saves children’s lives; new understanding of chronic pain
2022-Jun-01
30 minutes
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#120: DeepMind claims artificial intelligence breakthrough; searching for ancient life on Mars; Stonehenge surprise; monkeypox latest
2022-May-26
29 minutes
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#119: How to tackle the global food crisis; rainforest animal orchestra; George Monbiot on humanity’s biggest blight
2022-May-19
26 minutes
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#118: Heatwaves push limits of human tolerance; chemical computer to mimic brain; first non-human to practice medicine
2022-May-12
28 minutes
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#117: US threat to women’s health; saving the world with bacteria; Darwinian feminism and primate gender; invasion of the earthworms
2022-May-05
25 minutes
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#116: DNA from outer space; Devi Sridhar on covid lessons; climate change in an Oxford wood
2022-Apr-28
31 minutes
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#115: Quantum consciousness; next decade of space exploration; songs played on rat whiskers
2022-Apr-21
28 minutes
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#114: A message to aliens, phage therapy for acne, calibrating the world’s oldest computer
2022-Apr-14
18 minutes
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#113: Climate change: suing governments to cut emissions; shock discovery in particle physics; a new function for dreams
2022-Apr-07
27 minutes
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#112: Gene therapy success; biodiversity talks; the genetics of blood sucking; the farthest star ever seen
2022-Mar-31
25 minutes
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#111: Antarctic and Arctic record-breaking heat; octopus brains insight; black hole paradox explained
2022-Mar-24
27 minutes
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#110: Solution for Ukraine food crisis; why young blood rejuvenates; climate horror in Australia; Hannah Peel’s new music
2022-Mar-18
28 minutes
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#109: Ukraine war stokes energy crisis; emergency sounded over Amazon rainforest; secular intelligent design; mammalian virgin birth
2022-Mar-11
31 minutes
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#108: Ukraine: health crisis and threat of nuclear war; IPCC report on limits to climate adaptation; Wuhan origin of covid
2022-Mar-04
32 minutes
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#107: Ukraine invasion: cyberwar threat and effect on climate targets; Covid pandemic isn’t over; how we sense pain
2022-Feb-25
32 minutes
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#106: Saving children from cancer; new ways to remove greenhouse gases; brain growth in adults
2022-Feb-18
30 minutes
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#105: Electrodes treat paralysis; first detected isolated black hole; the ancient human inhabitants of a French cave; breakthroughs in transplant organs from pigs; why you should pick up your dog’s poo
2022-Feb-11
25 minutes
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#104: Gene variant for extreme old age, gravitational waves and dark matter, what fruit flies tell us about nature and nurture
2022-Feb-04
28 minutes
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#103: How covid affects brain function; glacier loss on Svalbard; start of the Anthropocene; hottest life on Earth
2022-Jan-28
32 minutes
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#102: Living with covid; Tonga eruption; neutral atom quantum computers; phage therapy for superbugs; AI with Beth Singler
2022-Jan-21
27 minutes
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#101: Man gets first pig heart transplant; robot therapy for mental health; omicron update; dolphin sexual pleasure
2022-Jan-14
32 minutes
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#100: New Scientist journalists pick out their scientific and cultural highlights for 2022
2022-Jan-07
23 minutes
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#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz
2021-Dec-24
39 minutes
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#98: Brain cells wired to the Matrix; omicron latest; how to make truly intelligent machines; the mysterious border between sleep and wake
2021-Dec-17
25 minutes
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#97: The latest on omicron; Don’t Look Up review; Steven Pinker on human rationality; the sound of melting glaciers
2021-Dec-10
27 minutes
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#96: What does the rise of omicron mean for us?; living robots able to reproduce; mini black holes and the end of the universe
2021-Dec-03
23 minutes
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#95: The origin of coronavirus; how red light boosts eyesight; deflecting asteroids; body chemical changes human behaviour
2021-Nov-26
26 minutes
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#94: IBM’s huge quantum computer, Russia’s anti-satellite weapon, the verdict on COP26, AI predicting the next legal highs
2021-Nov-19
27 minutes
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#93: COP26 special, week 2: voices from the Global South; what does the Glasgow Accord look like - and where does it go from here on climate action
2021-Nov-12
36 minutes
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#92: COP26 week 1 special from Glasgow; first Earthlings to go interstellar; genetically engineered microbes for our cells
2021-Nov-05
33 minutes
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#91: Earth heading for climate disaster; Kim Stanley Robinson looks to the future; hunt for aliens; Tesla worth $1 trillion
2021-Oct-28
25 minutes
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#90: COP26 climate playlist; the science of Dune; life-saving treatment for children without immune systems; covid sweeps Iran
2021-Oct-21
28 minutes
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#89: Climate-ready food of the future; the biology of poverty; deepfake audio; mystery cosmic signal; Captain Kirk in space
2021-Oct-14
21 minutes
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#88: Should climate activism go to extreme levels?; malaria vaccine; new drugs to treat covid; mission to the asteroid belt
2021-Oct-07
27 minutes
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#87: Mini black holes impacting the moon; first CRISPR gene-edited food goes on sale; why leaves turn brown in autumn
2021-Sep-30
27 minutes
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#86: The woman who couldn’t smell; solving the climate and biodiversity emergencies; China’s quantum of solace
2021-Sep-23
27 minutes
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#85: The violent frontline of climate change; bringing back the mammoth; another first for SpaceX
2021-Sep-16
31 minutes
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#84: Health benefits of male flatulence; cave dwellings on Mars; covid booster shots
2021-Sep-09
26 minutes
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#83: Low carbon shipping; Anil Seth on consciousness; humanity’s ancient history in Arabia; quantum gravity
2021-Sep-02
30 minutes
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#82: Taliban seize Afghan biometric equipment; uploading our brains to machines; investigating Nazi uranium
2021-Aug-26
25 minutes
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#81: Breakthrough in nuclear fusion; mini human brain grown with eyes; rapid evolution of synthetic bacteria
2021-Aug-19
29 minutes
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#80: Analysis of IPCC climate report; the rise of synthetic milk; discovery of new carnivorous plant
2021-Aug-12
28 minutes
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#79: Google creates a time crystal; microplastics in human placenta; boosting China’s vaccines; our climate future
2021-Aug-05
23 minutes
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#78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather
2021-Jul-29
27 minutes
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#77: Is dropping covid restrictions unethical?; methane hints to life on Mars; Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin’s road to space
2021-Jul-22
24 minutes
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#76: Harm of race-based medicine; space tourism industry is go; America’s heatwave challenges
2021-Jul-15
22 minutes
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#75: Vaccine for kids; legacy of Dolly the sheep; how to repair the climate; China’s quantum advantage
2021-Jul-08
27 minutes
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#74: ‘Dragon man’ could be new species of human; Wally Funk goes to space; human and financial cost of heatwave; how covid affects the brain
2021-Jul-01
23 minutes
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#73: How to treat long covid; evolution of cooperation; Turing’s ACE computer; aliens watching Earth
2021-Jun-24
30 minutes
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#72: The evil in all of us; delta variant of coronavirus; glacier memory project
2021-Jun-17
27 minutes
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#71: Alzheimer’s treatment approved; human brain map breakthrough; time flowing backwards
2021-Jun-10
28 minutes
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#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap
2021-Jun-03
26 minutes
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#69: Coronavirus evolution; geoengineering and food supply; Alice Roberts on the revolution in archaeology
2021-May-27
26 minutes
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#68: Climate change and methane mystery; breathable liquid; covid vaccines
2021-May-20
22 minutes
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#67: Brain plasticity; entropy and the nature of time; vaccine booster shots
2021-May-13
27 minutes
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#66: Sea level rise; Bitcoin carbon pollution; how to measure self-awareness
2021-May-06
27 minutes
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#65: Chernobyl radiation safety; Chinese space station; wisdom of trees
2021-Apr-29
29 minutes
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#64: Earth Day rescue plan: climate change and biodiversity special
2021-Apr-22
31 minutes
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#63: Musical spider’s webs; magic mushrooms for treating depression; the sound of coronavirus
2021-Apr-15
26 minutes
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#62: Synthetic life; rescue plan for Earth; muon g-2 new physics
2021-Apr-08
28 minutes
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#61: Worse allergies; black hole in our backyard; new flavours of vanilla
2021-Apr-01
24 minutes
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#60: New physics; anti-ageing human embryos; Mars update
2021-Mar-26
26 minutes
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#59: Vaccine success; hibernation and anti-ageing; world’s first computer
2021-Mar-19
28 minutes
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#58: Covid good news; cold water swimming; quantum unreality
2021-Mar-12
23 minutes
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#57: Moon base; Neanderthal speech; Elizabeth Kolbert on geoengineering
2021-Mar-05
28 minutes
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#56: How to spend a trillion dollars; landing on Mars; exercise and metabolism myths
2021-Feb-26
25 minutes
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#55: Rescuing nature; Mars missions; new covid mutation
2021-Feb-19
24 minutes
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#54: Next-gen vaccines; alien space probes; ethics of fish
2021-Feb-12
27 minutes
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#53: Pandemic burnout; vaccines for the world; sustainable fuel
2021-Feb-05
26 minutes
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#52: Life after vaccination; gaslighting; mind reading
2021-Jan-29
24 minutes
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#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data
2021-Jan-22
26 minutes
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#50: Covid vaccine dosing; superconductors; coral restoration
2021-Jan-15
34 minutes
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#49: New coronavirus variants
2021-Jan-08
26 minutes
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#48: Must-know science of 2021
2021-Jan-01
29 minutes
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#47: Christmas special quiz of the year
2020-Dec-18
28 minutes
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#46: Stardust hunting, the illusion of the self, space rocks return to Earth
2020-Dec-11
28 minutes
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#45: Vaccine roll out in UK and China; Chris Packham on connectedness; AlphaFold breakthrough
2020-Dec-04
33 minutes
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#44: When we’ll get the vaccine; fast-expanding universe; lunar missions
2020-Nov-27
35 minutes
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#43: How the covid RNA vaccine works; systemic racism; origin of humans
2020-Nov-20
29 minutes
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#42: Vaccine for covid-19; origin of animals; overpopulation
2020-Nov-13
27 minutes
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#41: The function of dreams
2020-Nov-06
25 minutes
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#40: Halloween special: real-life vampires, the science of ghosts, deep-sea zombies, monster black holes
2020-Oct-30
28 minutes
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#39: Social lives of viruses; CRISPR to fight antibiotic resistance; dealing with risk; George RR Martin and the moon
2020-Oct-22
28 minutes
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#38: Tackling the climate crisis; essential, like, filler words of, um, language; mystery of the human penis; your covid questions answered
2020-Oct-15
33 minutes
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#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19
2020-Oct-08
31 minutes
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#36: Hunt for life on Venus and Mars; how the paleo diet affects your age; strategy for the second wave of coronavirus; species extinction crisis
2020-Oct-01
32 minutes
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#35: The first woman on the moon; evolution special; purpose of sleep and dreams; deep water mystery
2020-Sep-24
32 minutes
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#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time
2020-Sep-17
33 minutes
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#33: The healthy-eating revolution; China’s cosmic ambitions; Russia’s pursuit of gene-editing technology; the world’s greatest mammal
2020-Sep-10
30 minutes
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#32: Billionaire plan to geoengineer the planet; how the moon affects your health; Neuralink’s telepathic pigs
2020-Sep-03
34 minutes
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#31: Widening the search for alien life on habitable planets; why unconscious bias training might not work; the microbiome of cancer tumours
2020-Aug-27
24 minutes
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#30: Redefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades
2020-Aug-20
30 minutes
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#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first
2020-Aug-13
31 minutes
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#28: Origin of life on Earth; second wave of coronavirus; science of miscarriage
2020-Aug-06
34 minutes
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#27: Putting plastic back on the agenda; revisiting the iconic black hole image, how dinosaurs dominated the planet
2020-Jul-30
29 minutes
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#26: The hidden dark matter of our food; NASA’s new search for life on Mars; smallpox in the American civil war
2020-Jul-23
28 minutes
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#25: Coronavirus effects on children, and on other diseases; changing the way you sit could add years to your life; supercrops for a climate-changed world
2020-Jul-16
31 minutes
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#24: Half a year in a world of covid-19; meat production breaking Earth’s nitrogen limits; what does gravity weigh?
2020-Jul-09
31 minutes
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#23: Coronavirus immunity and vaccine implications; evolutionary reasons for the types of world leader; treating people with CRISPR gene editing
2020-Jul-02
33 minutes
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#22: Consciousness from the body as well as the brain; record temperatures in the Arctic; long-term symptoms of covid-19
2020-Jun-26
24 minutes
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#21: How to prevent future pandemics, black lives matter and racism in science, suspended animation
2020-Jun-19
27 minutes
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#20: Human cryptic mate choice, cracking nuclear fusion, countering coronavirus misinformation
2020-Jun-12
28 minutes
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#19: How the UK got it wrong on coronavirus, mystery around chronic Lyme, Greta Thunberg’s musical debut
2020-Jun-05
28 minutes
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#18: Bending the curve on climate change, the era of commercial space travel, staying safe from coronavirus
2020-May-29
25 minutes
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#17: The truth about our appetites, the impact of coronavirus on conservation, mud volcanoes on Mars
2020-May-22
30 minutes
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#16: Hints of a new force of nature; making mice with human cells; seaweed in the fight against climate change
2020-May-15
26 minutes
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#15: Mystery of radio signals from deep space; the future of music; epidemic of bad coronavirus science
2020-May-08
28 minutes
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#14: Dreams, sleep and coronavirus, a new explanation of consciousness, brain-stimulation anorexia treatment
2020-May-01
31 minutes
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#13: Evidence for a parallel universe, protecting mental health in lockdown, why covid-19 hits men harder
2020-Apr-24
29 minutes
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#12: Strength training for better health, bats mimic sound, biggest ever supernova
2020-Apr-17
21 minutes
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#11: Covid World, coronavirus in New York, invasion of parakeets, bacteria and their amazing powers
2020-Apr-10
31 minutes
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#10: Coronavirus questions answered, revolution in human evolution, mind-reading computers
2020-Apr-03
25 minutes
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#9: Coronavirus lockdown – how to flatten the curve, reset the immune system, and the world’s most hardcore mammal
2020-Mar-27
33 minutes
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#8: Coronavirus special – disaster preparation, environmental change and disease emergence; plus science round-up
2020-Mar-20
34 minutes
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#7: Coronavirus vaccine, neutrinos in the early universe, and organ transplants
2020-Mar-13
25 minutes
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#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing
2020-Mar-06
33 minutes
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#5: Pandemic preparations, mind-reading – and a trillion trees
2020-Feb-28
27 minutes
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#4: Lab-grown meat, Neanderthal burials, and space tourism
2020-Feb-21
28 minutes
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#3: Coronavirus latest, a woman with half a brain, and love drugs
2020-Feb-14
26 minutes
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#2: Weird quantum experiment, origin of the alphabet, and coronavirus developments
2020-Feb-07
22 minutes
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#1: Wuhan coronavirus, nuclear fusion, and the Solar Orbiter spacecraft
2020-Jan-31
25 minutes
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