The World, the Universe and Us
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Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal
is lasers?
24 mins; August 23, 2024
Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you
27 mins; August 15, 2024
CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far.
37 mins; August 12, 2024
Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy
29 mins; August 09, 2024
Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?
34 mins; August 06, 2024
Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’?
33 mins; August 02, 2024
CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace
30 mins; July 29, 2024
Weekly: Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides
34 mins; July 26, 2024
Dead Planets Society: Can We Burn Uranus?
28 mins; July 23, 2024
Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs
28 mins; July 19, 2024
CultureLab: The incredible, intelligent abilities of plants with Zoë Schlanger
39 mins; July 15, 2024
Weekly: Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming
34 mins; July 12, 2024
Dead Planets Society: Putting Black Holes Inside Stuff
26 mins; July 08, 2024
Weekly: World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic
36 mins; July 05, 2024
CultureLab: Sonifying Mars, symphonically, with David Ibbett
40 mins; July 01, 2024
Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox
25 mins; June 28, 2024
Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism
26 mins; June 24, 2024
Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon
26 mins; June 21, 2024
CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool
41 mins; June 17, 2024
Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report
39 mins; June 14, 2024
Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?
29 mins; June 10, 2024
Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely
30 mins; June 07, 2024
CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger
44 mins; June 03, 2024
Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?
35 mins; May 31, 2024
Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet
27 mins; May 28, 2024
Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour
29 mins; May 24, 2024
CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction
31 mins; May 20, 2024
Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids
30 mins; May 17, 2024
Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms
36 mins; May 14, 2024
Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak
27 mins; May 10, 2024
CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change
35 mins; May 07, 2024
Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ
32 mins; May 03, 2024
Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse
26 mins; April 29, 2024
Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants
35 mins; April 26, 2024
CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence
30 mins; April 22, 2024
Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?
35 mins; April 19, 2024
Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole
27 mins; April 15, 2024
Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms
31 mins; April 12, 2024
CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation
41 mins; April 08, 2024
Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure
33 mins; April 05, 2024
Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet
21 mins; April 01, 2024
Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous
28 mins; March 29, 2024
CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign
35 mins; March 25, 2024
Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics
29 mins; March 22, 2024
Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer
18 mins; March 18, 2024
Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis
28 mins; March 15, 2024
CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are
37 mins; March 12, 2024
Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture
30 mins; March 08, 2024
Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological
16 mins; March 04, 2024
Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing
28 mins; March 01, 2024
CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind
48 mins; February 26, 2024
Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage
27 mins; February 23, 2024
Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes
20 mins; February 21, 2024
Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages
26 mins; February 16, 2024
CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’
22 mins; February 13, 2024
Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy
25 mins; February 09, 2024
Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos
19 mins; February 05, 2024
Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs
24 mins; February 02, 2024
CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’
28 mins; January 30, 2024
Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time
26 mins; January 26, 2024
Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets
18 mins; January 23, 2024
Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object
25 mins; January 19, 2024
CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch
24 mins; January 15, 2024
Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork
25 mins; January 12, 2024
Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical
19 mins; January 08, 2024
Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe
32 mins; January 04, 2024
Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins
24 mins; January 01, 2024
Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes
29 mins; December 28, 2023
CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads
30 mins; December 25, 2023
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
29 mins; December 21, 2023
CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions
39 mins; December 19, 2023
Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future
25 mins; December 16, 2023
Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe
27 mins; December 15, 2023
CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback
18 mins; December 11, 2023
Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high
26 mins; December 09, 2023
Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
28 mins; December 08, 2023
CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
27 mins; December 04, 2023
Weekly: Biggest climate summit since Paris; thanking dirt for all life on Earth; what if another star flew past our solar system?
24 mins; December 01, 2023
Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift
24 mins; November 28, 2023
Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth
26 mins; November 24, 2023
Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two
17 mins; November 21, 2023
Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One
20 mins; November 20, 2023
Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)
31 mins; November 17, 2023
CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey
23 mins; November 13, 2023
Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy
29 mins; November 10, 2023
Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt
17 mins; November 06, 2023
Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads
29 mins; November 03, 2023
CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts
32 mins; October 31, 2023
Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer
31 mins; October 27, 2023
Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds
27 mins; October 23, 2023
Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator
31 mins; October 20, 2023
CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society
35 mins; October 17, 2023
Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?
33 mins; October 13, 2023
Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon
23 mins; October 10, 2023
Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles
37 mins; October 06, 2023
CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history
28 mins; October 02, 2023
Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?
27 mins; September 29, 2023
Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again
23 mins; September 25, 2023
Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn
27 mins; September 22, 2023
CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions
24 mins; September 18, 2023