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A news podcast for the instatiably 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. For more visit newscientist.com/podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
All You Need To Know For Science in 2025
Jan 03, 2025
The Best of New Scientist in 2024: From Volcanic Diamonds to Immortal Brains
Dec 27, 2024
Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum
Dec 20, 2024
Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young
Dec 13, 2024
Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024
Dec 06, 2024
Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books
Nov 29, 2024
Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age
Nov 22, 2024
Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?
Nov 15, 2024
The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree
Nov 08, 2024
Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria
Nov 01, 2024
The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well
Oct 25, 2024
SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction
Oct 18, 2024
Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back
Oct 11, 2024
Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war
Oct 04, 2024
The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese
Sep 27, 2024
Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes
Sep 20, 2024
Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk
Sep 13, 2024
First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons
Sep 06, 2024
Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes
Aug 30, 2024
1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers?
Aug 23, 2024
Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you
Aug 15, 2024
Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy
Aug 09, 2024
The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’?
Aug 02, 2024
Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides
Jul 26, 2024
New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs
Jul 19, 2024
Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming
Jul 12, 2024
World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic
Jul 05, 2024
Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox
Jun 28, 2024
Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon
Jun 21, 2024
Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report
Jun 14, 2024
Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely
Jun 07, 2024
Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?
May 31, 2024
Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour
May 24, 2024
Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids
May 17, 2024
Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak
May 10, 2024
Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ
May 03, 2024
What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants
Apr 26, 2024
Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?
Apr 19, 2024
The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms
Apr 12, 2024
Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure
Apr 05, 2024
Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous
Mar 29, 2024
How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics
Mar 22, 2024
Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis
Mar 15, 2024
Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture
Mar 08, 2024
Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing
Mar 01, 2024
Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages
Feb 16, 2024