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Apr 8, 2022
Sep 12, 2021
NGC300
Nov 16, 2020
Nonchalant tidbits of the science articles covered in the print edition. Nevertheless, informative.
Ian
May 1, 2020
Great podcast. Adds value to the magazine but would still be really good for the latest science stories without the magazine. Very accessible.
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Podcasts for the insatiably curious by the world’s most popular weekly science magazine. Everything from the latest science and technology news to the big-picture questions about life, the universe and what it means to be human.
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Weekly: Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Weekly: Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Weekly: Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Weekly: Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Weekly: The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Weekly: Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Weekly: Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Weekly: Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers?
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far.
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Weekly: Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: Can We Burn Uranus?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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CultureLab: The incredible, intelligent abilities of plants with Zoë Schlanger
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Weekly: Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: Putting Black Holes Inside Stuff
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Weekly: World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Sonifying Mars, symphonically, with David Ibbett
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?
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May 31, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet
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May 28, 2024 |
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Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour
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May 24, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction
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May 20, 2024 |
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Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids
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May 17, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms
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May 14, 2024 |
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Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak
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May 10, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change
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May 07, 2024 |
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Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ
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May 03, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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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
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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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
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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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
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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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?
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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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
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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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?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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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
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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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
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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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
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies.
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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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
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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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
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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#195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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#194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate
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May 26, 2023 |
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#193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink
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May 25, 2023 |
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#192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death
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May 18, 2023 |
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#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science
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May 11, 2023 |
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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
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May 11, 2023 |
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#189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors
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May 04, 2023 |
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#188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut
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May 04, 2023 |
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#187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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#186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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#185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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#183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism?
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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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
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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#181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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#180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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#179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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#178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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#177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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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
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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#173 Understanding chronic health conditions; Artificial sweetener linked to heart attacks; Re-thinking galaxies; UN geoengineering report
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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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
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease?
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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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
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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#163 Antidepressants; Exoplanets; California’s megadroughts – the latest news in science
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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#162 How to trigger positive tipping points to tackle climate change
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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#161 What they don’t tell you about the climate crisis with Assaad Razzouk
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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#160 Rejuvenation treatments; world to breach 1.5 degrees of global heating
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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#158 Exxon’s 1970s predictions for climate change were super accurate
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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#157 Computer lawyer takes first court case; brains speed up with age
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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#156: What you need to know in science and culture for 2023
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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#155: Our five favourite New Scientist long-reads from 2022
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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#154: News review 2022 - stand-out moments and funniest stories
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate change
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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#152 Ancient species of human could control fire; complete brain map of fly
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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#151 COP15: the meeting to save life on Earth; anti-ageing properties of urine
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#150 Megadrought in the US; how to move an elephant
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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#149 COP27 treaty emerges; a method to discover wormholes
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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#148 Climate action from COP27; world population reaches 8 billion
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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#147 The oldest yew trees in Europe – and how to save them
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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#146 Accelerated end to fossil fuel; double discovery on Mars
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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#145 COP27 climate summit preview; unexpected animal sounds
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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#144 Geoengineering plan to slow the melt of arctic ice
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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#143 Bird flu sweeps UK; secrets of the Neanderthal family
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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#142: We need to talk about mental health and climate change
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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#141 Energy threat to international security; a new form of multiplication
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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#140 New Scientist Live Ask-us-Anything bonus episode
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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#139 Gas leak impact on climate change; a new way to explain life
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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#138 UK government’s attack on nature; when you can’t stop laughing
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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#137 How to turn the shipping industry green; Enceladus passes habitability test
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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#136 A step towards building artificial life; solar-powered slugs
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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#135 The Amazon passes a tipping point; a place to live only 100 light years away
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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#134 Artemis moon mission; decoding the dreams of mice
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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#133 A treatment for food allergies; predicting earthquakes
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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#131 Why thinking hard tires you out; game-changing US climate bill
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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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
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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#129 BlueDot special: Mysteries of the universe; stories of hope and joy; growing tiny human brains; solving global problems
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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#128 Extreme heatwaves; China’s space station launch; covid’s effects in pregnancy; a black hole symphony
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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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
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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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?
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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#125: Poo transplants cure IBS; climate change shrinks the human niche; CRISPR babies; monkeypox latest
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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#124: Lopsided universe; solar activity affects heart health; hero rats trained for rescue missions
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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#123: ‘Sentient’ claim for Google AI; spacecraft spots starquakes; the rise of the mammals; hot brains
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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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
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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#121: Creation of artificial life; gene therapy saves children’s lives; new understanding of chronic pain
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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#120: DeepMind claims artificial intelligence breakthrough; searching for ancient life on Mars; Stonehenge surprise; monkeypox latest
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May 26, 2022 |
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#119: How to tackle the global food crisis; rainforest animal orchestra; George Monbiot on humanity’s biggest blight
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May 19, 2022 |
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#118: Heatwaves push limits of human tolerance; chemical computer to mimic brain; first non-human to practice medicine
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May 12, 2022 |
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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
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May 05, 2022 |
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#116: DNA from outer space; Devi Sridhar on covid lessons; climate change in an Oxford wood
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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#115: Quantum consciousness; next decade of space exploration; songs played on rat whiskers
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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#114: A message to aliens, phage therapy for acne, calibrating the world’s oldest computer
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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#113: Climate change: suing governments to cut emissions; shock discovery in particle physics; a new function for dreams
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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#112: Gene therapy success; biodiversity talks; the genetics of blood sucking; the farthest star ever seen
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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#111: Antarctic and Arctic record-breaking heat; octopus brains insight; black hole paradox explained
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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#110: Solution for Ukraine food crisis; why young blood rejuvenates; climate horror in Australia; Hannah Peel’s new music
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#109: Ukraine war stokes energy crisis; emergency sounded over Amazon rainforest; secular intelligent design; mammalian virgin birth
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#108: Ukraine: health crisis and threat of nuclear war; IPCC report on limits to climate adaptation; Wuhan origin of covid
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#107: Ukraine invasion: cyberwar threat and effect on climate targets; Covid pandemic isn’t over; how we sense pain
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#106: Saving children from cancer; new ways to remove greenhouse gases; brain growth in adults
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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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
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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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
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#103: How covid affects brain function; glacier loss on Svalbard; start of the Anthropocene; hottest life on Earth
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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#102: Living with covid; Tonga eruption; neutral atom quantum computers; phage therapy for superbugs; AI with Beth Singler
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#101: Man gets first pig heart transplant; robot therapy for mental health; omicron update; dolphin sexual pleasure
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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#100: New Scientist journalists pick out their scientific and cultural highlights for 2022
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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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
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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#97: The latest on omicron; Don’t Look Up review; Steven Pinker on human rationality; the sound of melting glaciers
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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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
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#95: The origin of coronavirus; how red light boosts eyesight; deflecting asteroids; body chemical changes human behaviour
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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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
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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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
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#92: COP26 week 1 special from Glasgow; first Earthlings to go interstellar; genetically engineered microbes for our cells
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#91: Earth heading for climate disaster; Kim Stanley Robinson looks to the future; hunt for aliens; Tesla worth $1 trillion
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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#90: COP26 climate playlist; the science of Dune; life-saving treatment for children without immune systems; covid sweeps Iran
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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#89: Climate-ready food of the future; the biology of poverty; deepfake audio; mystery cosmic signal; Captain Kirk in space
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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#88: Should climate activism go to extreme levels?; malaria vaccine; new drugs to treat covid; mission to the asteroid belt
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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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
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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#86: The woman who couldn’t smell; solving the climate and biodiversity emergencies; China’s quantum of solace
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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#85: The violent frontline of climate change; bringing back the mammoth; another first for SpaceX
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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#84: Health benefits of male flatulence; cave dwellings on Mars; covid booster shots
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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#83: Low carbon shipping; Anil Seth on consciousness; humanity’s ancient history in Arabia; quantum gravity
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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#82: Taliban seize Afghan biometric equipment; uploading our brains to machines; investigating Nazi uranium
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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#81: Breakthrough in nuclear fusion; mini human brain grown with eyes; rapid evolution of synthetic bacteria
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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#80: Analysis of IPCC climate report; the rise of synthetic milk; discovery of new carnivorous plant
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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#79: Google creates a time crystal; microplastics in human placenta; boosting China’s vaccines; our climate future
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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#78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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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
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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#76: Harm of race-based medicine; space tourism industry is go; America’s heatwave challenges
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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#75: Vaccine for kids; legacy of Dolly the sheep; how to repair the climate; China’s quantum advantage
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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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
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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#73: How to treat long covid; evolution of cooperation; Turing’s ACE computer; aliens watching Earth
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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#72: The evil in all of us; delta variant of coronavirus; glacier memory project
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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#71: Alzheimer’s treatment approved; human brain map breakthrough; time flowing backwards
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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#69: Coronavirus evolution; geoengineering and food supply; Alice Roberts on the revolution in archaeology
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May 27, 2021 |
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#68: Climate change and methane mystery; breathable liquid; covid vaccines
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May 20, 2021 |
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#67: Brain plasticity; entropy and the nature of time; vaccine booster shots
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May 13, 2021 |
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#66: Sea level rise; Bitcoin carbon pollution; how to measure self-awareness
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May 06, 2021 |
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#65: Chernobyl radiation safety; Chinese space station; wisdom of trees
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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#64: Earth Day rescue plan: climate change and biodiversity special
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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#63: Musical spider’s webs; magic mushrooms for treating depression; the sound of coronavirus
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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#62: Synthetic life; rescue plan for Earth; muon g-2 new physics
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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#61: Worse allergies; black hole in our backyard; new flavours of vanilla
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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#60: New physics; anti-ageing human embryos; Mars update
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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#59: Vaccine success; hibernation and anti-ageing; world’s first computer
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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#58: Covid good news; cold water swimming; quantum unreality
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#57: Moon base; Neanderthal speech; Elizabeth Kolbert on geoengineering
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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#56: How to spend a trillion dollars; landing on Mars; exercise and metabolism myths
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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#55: Rescuing nature; Mars missions; new covid mutation
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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#54: Next-gen vaccines; alien space probes; ethics of fish
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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#53: Pandemic burnout; vaccines for the world; sustainable fuel
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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#52: Life after vaccination; gaslighting; mind reading
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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#50: Covid vaccine dosing; superconductors; coral restoration
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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#49: New coronavirus variants
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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#48: Must-know science of 2021
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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#47: Christmas special quiz of the year
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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#46: Stardust hunting, the illusion of the self, space rocks return to Earth
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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#45: Vaccine roll out in UK and China; Chris Packham on connectedness; AlphaFold breakthrough
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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#44: When we’ll get the vaccine; fast-expanding universe; lunar missions
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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#43: How the covid RNA vaccine works; systemic racism; origin of humans
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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#42: Vaccine for covid-19; origin of animals; overpopulation
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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#41: The function of dreams
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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#40: Halloween special: real-life vampires, the science of ghosts, deep-sea zombies, monster black holes
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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#39: Social lives of viruses; CRISPR to fight antibiotic resistance; dealing with risk; George RR Martin and the moon
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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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
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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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
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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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
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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#35: The first woman on the moon; evolution special; purpose of sleep and dreams; deep water mystery
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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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
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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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
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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#32: Billionaire plan to geoengineer the planet; how the moon affects your health; Neuralink’s telepathic pigs
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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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
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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#30: Redefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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#28: Origin of life on Earth; second wave of coronavirus; science of miscarriage
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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#27: Putting plastic back on the agenda; revisiting the iconic black hole image, how dinosaurs dominated the planet
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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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
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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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
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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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?
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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#23: Coronavirus immunity and vaccine implications; evolutionary reasons for the types of world leader; treating people with CRISPR gene editing
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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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
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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#21: How to prevent future pandemics, black lives matter and racism in science, suspended animation
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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#20: Human cryptic mate choice, cracking nuclear fusion, countering coronavirus misinformation
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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#19: How the UK got it wrong on coronavirus, mystery around chronic Lyme, Greta Thunberg’s musical debut
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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#18: Bending the curve on climate change, the era of commercial space travel, staying safe from coronavirus
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May 29, 2020 |
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#17: The truth about our appetites, the impact of coronavirus on conservation, mud volcanoes on Mars
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May 22, 2020 |
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#16: Hints of a new force of nature; making mice with human cells; seaweed in the fight against climate change
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May 15, 2020 |
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#15: Mystery of radio signals from deep space; the future of music; epidemic of bad coronavirus science
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May 08, 2020 |
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#14: Dreams, sleep and coronavirus, a new explanation of consciousness, brain-stimulation anorexia treatment
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May 01, 2020 |
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#13: Evidence for a parallel universe, protecting mental health in lockdown, why covid-19 hits men harder
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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#12: Strength training for better health, bats mimic sound, biggest ever supernova
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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#11: Covid World, coronavirus in New York, invasion of parakeets, bacteria and their amazing powers
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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#10: Coronavirus questions answered, revolution in human evolution, mind-reading computers
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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#9: Coronavirus lockdown – how to flatten the curve, reset the immune system, and the world’s most hardcore mammal
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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#8: Coronavirus special – disaster preparation, environmental change and disease emergence; plus science round-up
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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#7: Coronavirus vaccine, neutrinos in the early universe, and organ transplants
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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#5: Pandemic preparations, mind-reading – and a trillion trees
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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#4: Lab-grown meat, Neanderthal burials, and space tourism
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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#3: Coronavirus latest, a woman with half a brain, and love drugs
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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#2: Weird quantum experiment, origin of the alphabet, and coronavirus developments
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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#1: Wuhan coronavirus, nuclear fusion, and the Solar Orbiter spacecraft
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Jan 31, 2020 |