The World, the Universe and Us
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Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos
31 mins; September 15, 2023
Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto
24 mins; September 11, 2023
Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age
31 mins; September 08, 2023
CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World
36 mins; September 05, 2023
Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume
29 mins; September 01, 2023
Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong
16 mins; August 28, 2023
Weekly: India lands on the moon; Placenta cells could heal the heart; Mind-altering drugs and binge drinking on the rise
28 mins; August 25, 2023
CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023
30 mins; August 22, 2023
Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy
35 mins; August 18, 2023
Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse
18 mins; August 14, 2023
Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about
28 mins; August 11, 2023
CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
22 mins; August 07, 2023
Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2
35 mins; August 04, 2023
Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet
21 mins; July 31, 2023
Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle
29 mins; July 28, 2023
CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”
27 mins; July 24, 2023
Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats
32 mins; July 21, 2023
Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun
22 mins; July 17, 2023
Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize
31 mins; July 14, 2023
CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet
22 mins; July 11, 2023
Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing
26 mins; July 07, 2023
Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins
32 mins; June 30, 2023
Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies.
32 mins; June 22, 2023
Weekly: Claims that secret alien technology is held in the US; link between gut bacteria and intelligence; the parasite that makes ants live longer
24 mins; June 15, 2023
#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions
20 mins; June 13, 2023
#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter
23 mins; June 08, 2023
#197 Ancient human Homo naledi had advanced culture; AI passes the world’s biggest Turing Test; climate change hits New York
31 mins; June 08, 2023
#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically
30 mins; June 05, 2023
#195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat
26 mins; June 01, 2023
#194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate
34 mins; May 26, 2023
#193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink
31 mins; May 25, 2023
#192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death
20 mins; May 18, 2023
#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science
20 mins; May 11, 2023
#190 Problems for lab-grown meat; do we need vitamin D supplements?; waking the sleeping Arctic ocean; fish sing for Eurovision
30 mins; May 11, 2023
#189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors
25 mins; May 04, 2023
#188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut
24 mins; May 04, 2023
#187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben
15 mins; April 28, 2023
#186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA
31 mins; April 27, 2023
#185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans
21 mins; April 26, 2023
#184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health
16 mins; April 23, 2023
#183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism?
20 mins; April 20, 2023
#182 3D-printing inside living organisms; what ChatGPT means for human intelligence; why insects fly towards light; carbon storage in the oceans
30 mins; April 20, 2023
#181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter
32 mins; April 13, 2023
#180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō
24 mins; April 06, 2023
#179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth
33 mins; March 30, 2023
#178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023
30 mins; March 23, 2023
#177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard
20 mins; March 21, 2023
#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background
30 mins; March 16, 2023
#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold
27 mins; March 15, 2023
#174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science
29 mins; March 09, 2023
#173 Understanding chronic health conditions; Artificial sweetener linked to heart attacks; Re-thinking galaxies; UN geoengineering report
30 mins; March 02, 2023
#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health
20 mins; February 28, 2023
#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
27 mins; February 23, 2023
#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas
25 mins; February 19, 2023
#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers
31 mins; February 16, 2023
#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic
19 mins; February 12, 2023
#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science
22 mins; February 09, 2023
#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease?
32 mins; February 07, 2023
#165 Water dowsing to detect leaks; Astroforge going asteroid mining; AI discovers new bacteria-killing proteins – the latest news in science
27 mins; February 02, 2023
#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse
21 mins; January 29, 2023
#163 Antidepressants; Exoplanets; California’s megadroughts – the latest news in science
25 mins; January 26, 2023
#162 How to trigger positive tipping points to tackle climate change
29 mins; January 25, 2023
#161 What they don’t tell you about the climate crisis with Assaad Razzouk
21 mins; January 22, 2023
#160 Rejuvenation treatments; world to breach 1.5 degrees of global heating
29 mins; January 19, 2023
#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia
21 mins; January 15, 2023
#158 Exxon’s 1970s predictions for climate change were super accurate
19 mins; January 12, 2023
#157 Computer lawyer takes first court case; brains speed up with age
27 mins; January 12, 2023
#156: What you need to know in science and culture for 2023
28 mins; January 05, 2023
#155: Our five favourite New Scientist long-reads from 2022
29 mins; December 24, 2022
#154: News review 2022 - stand-out moments and funniest stories
33 mins; December 21, 2022
#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate change
36 mins; December 15, 2022
#152 Ancient species of human could control fire; complete brain map of fly
34 mins; December 07, 2022
#151 COP15: the meeting to save life on Earth; anti-ageing properties of urine
28 mins; December 01, 2022
#150 Megadrought in the US; how to move an elephant
29 mins; November 24, 2022
#149 COP27 treaty emerges; a method to discover wormholes
34 mins; November 17, 2022
#148 Climate action from COP27; world population reaches 8 billion
30 mins; November 10, 2022
#147 The oldest yew trees in Europe – and how to save them
11 mins; November 06, 2022
#146 Accelerated end to fossil fuel; double discovery on Mars
24 mins; November 03, 2022
#145 COP27 climate summit preview; unexpected animal sounds
24 mins; October 27, 2022
#144 Geoengineering plan to slow the melt of arctic ice
28 mins; October 23, 2022
#143 Bird flu sweeps UK; secrets of the Neanderthal family
28 mins; October 20, 2022
#142: We need to talk about mental health and climate change
17 mins; October 17, 2022
#141 Energy threat to international security; a new form of multiplication
32 mins; October 13, 2022
#140 New Scientist Live Ask-us-Anything bonus episode
24 mins; October 11, 2022
#139 Gas leak impact on climate change; a new way to explain life
31 mins; October 06, 2022
#138 UK government’s attack on nature; when you can’t stop laughing
25 mins; September 29, 2022
#137 How to turn the shipping industry green; Enceladus passes habitability test
29 mins; September 22, 2022
#136 A step towards building artificial life; solar-powered slugs
26 mins; September 15, 2022
#135 The Amazon passes a tipping point; a place to live only 100 light years away
30 mins; September 08, 2022
#134 Artemis moon mission; decoding the dreams of mice
28 mins; August 31, 2022
#133 A treatment for food allergies; predicting earthquakes
28 mins; August 24, 2022
#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys
31 mins; August 17, 2022
#131 Why thinking hard tires you out; game-changing US climate bill
32 mins; August 11, 2022
#130 How to reverse death; Neil Gaiman on Sandman; AlphaFold and biology’s revolution; life in the multiverse with Laura Mersini-Houghton
36 mins; August 04, 2022
#129 BlueDot special: Mysteries of the universe; stories of hope and joy; growing tiny human brains; solving global problems
47 mins; July 28, 2022
#128 Extreme heatwaves; China’s space station launch; covid’s effects in pregnancy; a black hole symphony
25 mins; July 21, 2022
#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
30 mins; July 14, 2022
#126: Are we stuck in a time loop? Legal action against climate change; covid fifth wave; time loop are we stuck?
32 mins; July 07, 2022
#125: Poo transplants cure IBS; climate change shrinks the human niche; CRISPR babies; monkeypox latest
31 mins; June 30, 2022
#124: Lopsided universe; solar activity affects heart health; hero rats trained for rescue missions
30 mins; June 23, 2022