The World, the Universe and Us
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#123: ‘Sentient’ claim for Google AI; spacecraft spots starquakes; the rise of the mammals; hot brains
31 mins; June 16, 2022
#122: The science of Top Gun; the 1.5°C climate goal is out of reach; return to the moon; hepatitis mystery
29 mins; June 09, 2022
#121: Creation of artificial life; gene therapy saves children’s lives; new understanding of chronic pain
33 mins; June 01, 2022
#120: DeepMind claims artificial intelligence breakthrough; searching for ancient life on Mars; Stonehenge surprise; monkeypox latest
32 mins; May 26, 2022
#119: How to tackle the global food crisis; rainforest animal orchestra; George Monbiot on humanity’s biggest blight
28 mins; May 19, 2022
#118: Heatwaves push limits of human tolerance; chemical computer to mimic brain; first non-human to practice medicine
31 mins; May 12, 2022
#117: US threat to women’s health; saving the world with bacteria; Darwinian feminism and primate gender; invasion of the earthworms
28 mins; May 05, 2022
#116: DNA from outer space; Devi Sridhar on covid lessons; climate change in an Oxford wood
34 mins; April 28, 2022
#115: Quantum consciousness; next decade of space exploration; songs played on rat whiskers
31 mins; April 21, 2022
#114: A message to aliens, phage therapy for acne, calibrating the world’s oldest computer
20 mins; April 14, 2022
#113: Climate change: suing governments to cut emissions; shock discovery in particle physics; a new function for dreams
30 mins; April 07, 2022
#112: Gene therapy success; biodiversity talks; the genetics of blood sucking; the farthest star ever seen
28 mins; March 31, 2022
#111: Antarctic and Arctic record-breaking heat; octopus brains insight; black hole paradox explained
30 mins; March 24, 2022
#110: Solution for Ukraine food crisis; why young blood rejuvenates; climate horror in Australia; Hannah Peel’s new music
31 mins; March 17, 2022
#109: Ukraine war stokes energy crisis; emergency sounded over Amazon rainforest; secular intelligent design; mammalian virgin birth
34 mins; March 10, 2022
#108: Ukraine: health crisis and threat of nuclear war; IPCC report on limits to climate adaptation; Wuhan origin of covid
35 mins; March 03, 2022
#107: Ukraine invasion: cyberwar threat and effect on climate targets; Covid pandemic isn’t over; how we sense pain
35 mins; February 24, 2022
#106: Saving children from cancer; new ways to remove greenhouse gases; brain growth in adults
32 mins; February 17, 2022
#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
28 mins; February 10, 2022
#104: Gene variant for extreme old age, gravitational waves and dark matter, what fruit flies tell us about nature and nurture
31 mins; February 03, 2022
#103: How covid affects brain function; glacier loss on Svalbard; start of the Anthropocene; hottest life on Earth
34 mins; January 27, 2022
#102: Living with covid; Tonga eruption; neutral atom quantum computers; phage therapy for superbugs; AI with Beth Singler
30 mins; January 20, 2022
#101: Man gets first pig heart transplant; robot therapy for mental health; omicron update; dolphin sexual pleasure
35 mins; January 13, 2022
#100: New Scientist journalists pick out their scientific and cultural highlights for 2022
26 mins; January 06, 2022
#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz
42 mins; December 23, 2021
#98: Brain cells wired to the Matrix; omicron latest; how to make truly intelligent machines; the mysterious border between sleep and wake
28 mins; December 16, 2021
#97: The latest on omicron; Don’t Look Up review; Steven Pinker on human rationality; the sound of melting glaciers
30 mins; December 09, 2021
#96: What does the rise of omicron mean for us?; living robots able to reproduce; mini black holes and the end of the universe
25 mins; December 02, 2021
#95: The origin of coronavirus; how red light boosts eyesight; deflecting asteroids; body chemical changes human behaviour
28 mins; November 25, 2021
#94: IBM’s huge quantum computer, Russia’s anti-satellite weapon, the verdict on COP26, AI predicting the next legal highs
30 mins; November 18, 2021
#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
39 mins; November 11, 2021
#92: COP26 week 1 special from Glasgow; first Earthlings to go interstellar; genetically engineered microbes for our cells
36 mins; November 04, 2021
#91: Earth heading for climate disaster; Kim Stanley Robinson looks to the future; hunt for aliens; Tesla worth $1 trillion
27 mins; October 28, 2021
#90: COP26 climate playlist; the science of Dune; life-saving treatment for children without immune systems; covid sweeps Iran
31 mins; October 21, 2021
#89: Climate-ready food of the future; the biology of poverty; deepfake audio; mystery cosmic signal; Captain Kirk in space
21 mins; October 14, 2021
#88: Should climate activism go to extreme levels?; malaria vaccine; new drugs to treat covid; mission to the asteroid belt
27 mins; October 07, 2021
#87: Mini black holes impacting the moon; first CRISPR gene-edited food goes on sale; why leaves turn brown in autumn
27 mins; September 30, 2021
#86: The woman who couldn’t smell; solving the climate and biodiversity emergencies; China’s quantum of solace
27 mins; September 23, 2021
#85: The violent frontline of climate change; bringing back the mammoth; another first for SpaceX
31 mins; September 16, 2021
#84: Health benefits of male flatulence; cave dwellings on Mars; covid booster shots
26 mins; September 09, 2021
#83: Low carbon shipping; Anil Seth on consciousness; humanity’s ancient history in Arabia; quantum gravity
30 mins; September 02, 2021
#82: Taliban seize Afghan biometric equipment; uploading our brains to machines; investigating Nazi uranium
25 mins; August 26, 2021
#81: Breakthrough in nuclear fusion; mini human brain grown with eyes; rapid evolution of synthetic bacteria
29 mins; August 19, 2021
#80: Analysis of IPCC climate report; the rise of synthetic milk; discovery of new carnivorous plant
28 mins; August 12, 2021
#79: Google creates a time crystal; microplastics in human placenta; boosting China’s vaccines; our climate future
23 mins; August 05, 2021
#78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather
27 mins; July 29, 2021
#77: Is dropping covid restrictions unethical?; methane hints to life on Mars; Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin’s road to space
24 mins; July 22, 2021
#76: Harm of race-based medicine; space tourism industry is go; America’s heatwave challenges
22 mins; July 15, 2021
#75: Vaccine for kids; legacy of Dolly the sheep; how to repair the climate; China’s quantum advantage
27 mins; July 08, 2021
#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
23 mins; July 01, 2021
#73: How to treat long covid; evolution of cooperation; Turing’s ACE computer; aliens watching Earth
30 mins; June 24, 2021
#72: The evil in all of us; delta variant of coronavirus; glacier memory project
27 mins; June 17, 2021
#71: Alzheimer’s treatment approved; human brain map breakthrough; time flowing backwards
28 mins; June 10, 2021
#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap
26 mins; June 03, 2021
#69: Coronavirus evolution; geoengineering and food supply; Alice Roberts on the revolution in archaeology
26 mins; May 27, 2021
#68: Climate change and methane mystery; breathable liquid; covid vaccines
22 mins; May 20, 2021
#67: Brain plasticity; entropy and the nature of time; vaccine booster shots
27 mins; May 13, 2021
#66: Sea level rise; Bitcoin carbon pollution; how to measure self-awareness
27 mins; May 06, 2021
#65: Chernobyl radiation safety; Chinese space station; wisdom of trees
29 mins; April 29, 2021
#64: Earth Day rescue plan: climate change and biodiversity special
31 mins; April 22, 2021
#63: Musical spider’s webs; magic mushrooms for treating depression; the sound of coronavirus
26 mins; April 15, 2021
#62: Synthetic life; rescue plan for Earth; muon g-2 new physics
28 mins; April 08, 2021
#61: Worse allergies; black hole in our backyard; new flavours of vanilla
24 mins; April 01, 2021
#60: New physics; anti-ageing human embryos; Mars update
26 mins; March 25, 2021
#59: Vaccine success; hibernation and anti-ageing; world’s first computer
28 mins; March 18, 2021
#58: Covid good news; cold water swimming; quantum unreality
23 mins; March 11, 2021
#57: Moon base; Neanderthal speech; Elizabeth Kolbert on geoengineering
28 mins; March 04, 2021
#56: How to spend a trillion dollars; landing on Mars; exercise and metabolism myths
25 mins; February 25, 2021
#55: Rescuing nature; Mars missions; new covid mutation
24 mins; February 18, 2021
#54: Next-gen vaccines; alien space probes; ethics of fish
27 mins; February 11, 2021
#53: Pandemic burnout; vaccines for the world; sustainable fuel
26 mins; February 04, 2021
#52: Life after vaccination; gaslighting; mind reading
24 mins; January 28, 2021
#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data
26 mins; January 21, 2021
#50: Covid vaccine dosing; superconductors; coral restoration
34 mins; January 14, 2021
#49: New coronavirus variants
26 mins; January 07, 2021
#48: Must-know science of 2021
29 mins; December 31, 2020
#47: Christmas special quiz of the year
28 mins; December 17, 2020
#46: Stardust hunting, the illusion of the self, space rocks return to Earth
28 mins; December 10, 2020
#45: Vaccine roll out in UK and China; Chris Packham on connectedness; AlphaFold breakthrough
33 mins; December 03, 2020
#44: When we’ll get the vaccine; fast-expanding universe; lunar missions
35 mins; November 26, 2020
#43: How the covid RNA vaccine works; systemic racism; origin of humans
29 mins; November 19, 2020
#42: Vaccine for covid-19; origin of animals; overpopulation
27 mins; November 12, 2020
#41: The function of dreams
25 mins; November 05, 2020
#40: Halloween special: real-life vampires, the science of ghosts, deep-sea zombies, monster black holes
28 mins; October 29, 2020
#39: Social lives of viruses; CRISPR to fight antibiotic resistance; dealing with risk; George RR Martin and the moon
28 mins; October 22, 2020
#38: Tackling the climate crisis; essential, like, filler words of, um, language; mystery of the human penis; your covid questions answered
33 mins; October 15, 2020
#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19
31 mins; October 08, 2020
#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
32 mins; October 01, 2020
#35: The first woman on the moon; evolution special; purpose of sleep and dreams; deep water mystery
32 mins; September 24, 2020
#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time
33 mins; September 17, 2020
#33: The healthy-eating revolution; China’s cosmic ambitions; Russia’s pursuit of gene-editing technology; the world’s greatest mammal
30 mins; September 10, 2020
#32: Billionaire plan to geoengineer the planet; how the moon affects your health; Neuralink’s telepathic pigs
34 mins; September 03, 2020
#31: Widening the search for alien life on habitable planets; why unconscious bias training might not work; the microbiome of cancer tumours
24 mins; August 27, 2020
#30: Redefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades
30 mins; August 20, 2020
#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first
31 mins; August 13, 2020
#28: Origin of life on Earth; second wave of coronavirus; science of miscarriage
34 mins; August 06, 2020
#27: Putting plastic back on the agenda; revisiting the iconic black hole image, how dinosaurs dominated the planet
29 mins; July 30, 2020
#26: The hidden dark matter of our food; NASA’s new search for life on Mars; smallpox in the American civil war
28 mins; July 23, 2020
#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
31 mins; July 16, 2020
#24: Half a year in a world of covid-19; meat production breaking Earth’s nitrogen limits; what does gravity weigh?
31 mins; July 09, 2020