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Podcast Profile: The world, the universe and us

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395 episodes
2020 to 2025
Median: 28 minutes
Collection: Science

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This podcast, titled "The world, the universe and us," covers a broad range of scientific topics, providing listeners with an essential weekly dose of science and exploration. Hosted by journalists Dr. Rowan Hooper and Dr. Penny Sarchet, along with guest experts, the podcast focuses on a variety of scientific subjects, from the evolution of intelligent life to climate change and dark matter.

The episodes delve into diverse scientific phenomena and breakthroughs, including human evolution, ancient civilizations, and cutting-edge discoveries such as AI advancements and brain-computer interfaces. Discussions often center on the environment, including climate change challenges, biodiversity, and intriguing ecosystems like the deep sea. Astronomical phenomena also feature prominently, with explorations of black holes, exoplanets, and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

The show frequently addresses health and biology topics, such as the human microbiome, brain activity, and the potential of gene-editing technologies for disease prevention. It provides insights into controversial and thought-provoking issues, such as the ethics of AI, the implications of climate policies, and historical enigmas like ancient human tools and somber past events revisited through modern science.

Emerging technologies and innovations, like the use of drones in warfare or the potential of quantum computing to challenge existing paradigms, are discussed alongside reflections on how historical events like the atomic bomb's legacy influence current scientific understanding. The podcast also touches upon lighter or unusual aspects of science, like food science and animal behavior, contributing to a well-rounded exploration of the world, the universe, and humanity's place within it.

Episodes:

How mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action; Why birds sing the dawn chorus 2025-Oct-24 29 minutes

Neuroscience of reality; Quest for dark matter; Folklore of geoscience (New Scientist Live Special) 2025-Oct-20 28 minutes

First climate tipping point triggered; Man controls another person's body by brain implant; health worries over sumo wrestlers 2025-Oct-17 34 minutes

Space 2075: How Humanity Will Live, Work and Make Drugs off-planet | Live Recording at the Royal Society 2025-Oct-13 53 minutes

How Jane Goodall changed the world; How the universe ends; How “selfish sperm” affect male fertility 2025-Oct-10 43 minutes

Emergency in Antarctica; How movement changes the brain; Why women live longer than men 2025-Oct-02 30 minutes

Skull rewrites story of human evolution; Autism and Tylenol; discovery of wind coming from black hole 2025-Sep-26 33 minutes

The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives; the asteroid coming VERY close to Earth; how dinosaurs shaped the ecosystem 2025-Sep-19 32 minutes

Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British economy; Link between exercise and your microbiome 2025-Sep-12 29 minutes

First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet 2025-Sep-05 31 minutes

Scientists discovered a 100,000-year-old organism; Breakthrough brain implant uses AI to treat pain; How climate change leads to revolutions 2025-Aug-29 25 minutes

Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome of chocolate 2025-Aug-22 20 minutes

Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel 2025-Aug-14 44 minutes

80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb 2025-Aug-05 34 minutes

Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium; geology of the Russian earthquake 2025-Aug-01 28 minutes

AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep; Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too 2025-Jul-25 28 minutes

Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; New theory why we’ve not found aliens 2025-Jul-18 30 minutes

How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathematics?; Why exercise reduces cancer risk 2025-Jul-11 33 minutes

First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation 2025-Jul-04 29 minutes

Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid 2025-Jun-27 30 minutes

First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen 2025-Jun-20 36 minutes

Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live 2025-Jun-13 31 minutes

$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm 2025-Jun-06 25 minutes

The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth 2025-May-30 34 minutes

Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees 2025-May-23 23 minutes

China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system 2025-May-16 27 minutes

Ocean wonders and the new arguments against deep-sea mining; biophotons emitted from living things; drumming chimps and the origin of religion 2025-May-09 28 minutes

Is our understanding of light completely wrong? Two consciousness theories go head-to-head; decoding dolphin whistles 2025-May-02 28 minutes

Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality 2025-Apr-29 41 minutes

Weekly: First brain engineering in a mammal; landmark in fossil fuel lawsuits, the legacy of Pope Francis 2025-Apr-25 29 minutes

Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet? 2025-Apr-17 17 minutes

Weekly: Dire wolves (not) brought back from extinction; US science in existential crisis; how to pour the perfect coffee 2025-Apr-11 21 minutes

Weekly: How plant skin transplants could supercharge crops; China’s pollution win spikes global temperatures; the oldest ivory tools ever found 2025-Apr-04 27 minutes

Weekly: A remarkable view of pregnancy; how to waste less time on your smartphone; superacid diamond rain 2025-Mar-28 22 minutes

Weekly: Life on Mars; biggest dark energy discovery in decades; the mystery of dark oxygen 2025-Mar-21 20 minutes

Weekly: America is turning its back on science and the cosmos; photosynthesis limits; mysterious memory illusion 2025-Mar-14 27 minutes

Weekly: Chimps, bonobos and humans have more in common than you might think 2025-Mar-07 27 minutes

Weekly: How to finally get a good night’s sleep - with science 2025-Feb-28 36 minutes

Weekly: Life-saving mice perform first aid; tiny lab-grown human brains; making skyscrapers and hair condition from wood 2025-Feb-21 25 minutes

Weekly: Resurrecting frozen brains; giant asteroid heads to Earth; you really do have a ‘dessert stomach’ 2025-Feb-14 31 minutes

Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science 2025-Feb-07 23 minutes

Weekly: Is DeepSeek really the ChatGPT killer?; alarming scale of ocean warming; dolphin peeing contests 2025-Jan-31 29 minutes

Weekly: The Trump impact on climate and global health; the placebo effect’s evil twin; the mystery of dark oxygen 2025-Jan-24 28 minutes

Weekly: The truth about Iron Age women; Climate whiplash and the LA wildfires; Rebooting the world’s first chatbot 2025-Jan-17 30 minutes

Weekly: Gene-editing to make superhumans; first bird flu death in the US; perfect pasta with physics 2025-Jan-10 28 minutes

Weekly: All You Need To Know For Science in 2025 2025-Jan-03 23 minutes

Weekly: The Best of New Scientist in 2024: From Volcanic Diamonds to Immortal Brains 2024-Dec-27 34 minutes

Weekly: Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum 2024-Dec-20 45 minutes

Weekly: Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young 2024-Dec-13 25 minutes

Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024 2024-Dec-06 32 minutes

Weekly: Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books 2024-Nov-29 23 minutes

Weekly: Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age 2024-Nov-22 36 minutes

Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet? 2024-Nov-15 30 minutes

Weekly: The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree 2024-Nov-08 34 minutes

Weekly: Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria 2024-Nov-01 32 minutes

Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well 2024-Oct-25 22 minutes

Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction 2024-Oct-18 22 minutes

Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back 2024-Oct-11 21 minutes

The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 2024-Oct-04 17 minutes

Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war 2024-Oct-04 23 minutes

Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 2024-Oct-03 23 minutes

Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 2024-Oct-02 16 minutes

Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 2024-Oct-01 19 minutes

A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 2024-Sep-30 16 minutes

Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations 2024-Sep-29 15 minutes

Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese 2024-Sep-27 25 minutes

Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes 2024-Sep-20 25 minutes

Weekly: Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk 2024-Sep-13 29 minutes

CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater 2024-Sep-09 49 minutes

Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons 2024-Sep-06 25 minutes

Weekly: Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes 2024-Aug-30 29 minutes

CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us 2024-Aug-26 40 minutes

Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers? 2024-Aug-23 24 minutes

Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you 2024-Aug-15 27 minutes

CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far. 2024-Aug-12 37 minutes

Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy 2024-Aug-09 29 minutes

Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun? 2024-Aug-06 34 minutes

Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’? 2024-Aug-02 33 minutes

CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace 2024-Jul-29 30 minutes

Weekly: Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides 2024-Jul-26 34 minutes

Dead Planets Society: Can We Burn Uranus? 2024-Jul-23 28 minutes

Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs 2024-Jul-19 28 minutes

CultureLab: The incredible, intelligent abilities of plants with Zoë Schlanger 2024-Jul-15 39 minutes

Weekly: Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming 2024-Jul-12 34 minutes

Dead Planets Society: Putting Black Holes Inside Stuff 2024-Jul-08 26 minutes

Weekly: World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic 2024-Jul-05 36 minutes

CultureLab: Sonifying Mars, symphonically, with David Ibbett 2024-Jul-01 40 minutes

Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox 2024-Jun-28 25 minutes

Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism 2024-Jun-24 26 minutes

Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon 2024-Jun-21 26 minutes

CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool 2024-Jun-17 41 minutes

Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report 2024-Jun-14 39 minutes

Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have? 2024-Jun-10 29 minutes

Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely 2024-Jun-07 30 minutes

CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger 2024-Jun-03 44 minutes

Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing? 2024-May-31 35 minutes

Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet 2024-May-28 27 minutes

Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour 2024-May-24 29 minutes

CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction 2024-May-20 31 minutes

Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids 2024-May-17 30 minutes

Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms 2024-May-14 36 minutes

Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak 2024-May-10 27 minutes

CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change 2024-May-07 35 minutes

Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ 2024-May-03 32 minutes

Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse 2024-Apr-29 26 minutes

Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants 2024-Apr-26 35 minutes

CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence 2024-Apr-22 30 minutes

Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream? 2024-Apr-19 35 minutes

Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole 2024-Apr-15 27 minutes

Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms 2024-Apr-12 31 minutes

CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation 2024-Apr-08 41 minutes

Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure 2024-Apr-05 33 minutes

Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet 2024-Apr-01 21 minutes

Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous 2024-Mar-29 28 minutes

CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign 2024-Mar-26 35 minutes

Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics 2024-Mar-22 29 minutes

Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer 2024-Mar-19 18 minutes

Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis 2024-Mar-15 28 minutes

CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are 2024-Mar-12 37 minutes

Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture 2024-Mar-08 30 minutes

Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological 2024-Mar-05 16 minutes

Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing 2024-Mar-01 28 minutes

CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind 2024-Feb-27 48 minutes

Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage 2024-Feb-23 27 minutes

Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes 2024-Feb-21 20 minutes

Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages 2024-Feb-16 26 minutes

CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’ 2024-Feb-13 22 minutes

Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy 2024-Feb-09 25 minutes

Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos 2024-Feb-06 19 minutes

Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs 2024-Feb-02 24 minutes

CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’ 2024-Jan-30 28 minutes

Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time 2024-Jan-26 26 minutes

Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets 2024-Jan-23 18 minutes

Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object 2024-Jan-19 25 minutes

CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch 2024-Jan-16 24 minutes

Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork 2024-Jan-12 25 minutes

Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical 2024-Jan-09 19 minutes

Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe 2024-Jan-05 32 minutes

Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins 2024-Jan-02 24 minutes

Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes 2023-Dec-29 29 minutes

CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads 2023-Dec-26 30 minutes

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 2023-Dec-22 29 minutes

CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions 2023-Dec-19 39 minutes

Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future 2023-Dec-17 25 minutes

Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe 2023-Dec-15 27 minutes

CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback 2023-Dec-12 18 minutes

Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high 2023-Dec-10 26 minutes

Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds 2023-Dec-08 28 minutes

CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ 2023-Dec-05 27 minutes

Weekly: Biggest climate summit since Paris; thanking dirt for all life on Earth; what if another star flew past our solar system? 2023-Dec-01 24 minutes

Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift 2023-Nov-28 24 minutes

Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth 2023-Nov-24 26 minutes

Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two 2023-Nov-22 17 minutes

Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One 2023-Nov-21 20 minutes

Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew) 2023-Nov-17 31 minutes

CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey 2023-Nov-14 23 minutes

Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy 2023-Nov-10 29 minutes

Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt 2023-Nov-07 17 minutes

Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads 2023-Nov-03 29 minutes

CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts 2023-Oct-31 32 minutes

Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer 2023-Oct-27 31 minutes

Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds 2023-Oct-23 27 minutes

Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator 2023-Oct-20 31 minutes

CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society 2023-Oct-17 35 minutes

Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone? 2023-Oct-13 33 minutes

Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon 2023-Oct-10 23 minutes

Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles 2023-Oct-06 37 minutes

CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history 2023-Oct-02 28 minutes

Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse? 2023-Sep-29 27 minutes

Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again 2023-Sep-25 23 minutes

Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn 2023-Sep-22 27 minutes

CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions 2023-Sep-18 24 minutes

Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos 2023-Sep-15 31 minutes

Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto 2023-Sep-11 24 minutes

Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age 2023-Sep-08 31 minutes

CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World 2023-Sep-05 36 minutes

Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume 2023-Sep-01 29 minutes

Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong 2023-Aug-28 16 minutes

Weekly: India lands on the moon; Placenta cells could heal the heart; Mind-altering drugs and binge drinking on the rise 2023-Aug-25 28 minutes

CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023 2023-Aug-22 30 minutes

Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy 2023-Aug-18 35 minutes

Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse 2023-Aug-14 18 minutes

Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about 2023-Aug-11 28 minutes

CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road 2023-Aug-07 22 minutes

Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2 2023-Aug-04 35 minutes

Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet 2023-Jul-31 21 minutes

Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle 2023-Jul-28 29 minutes

CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb” 2023-Jul-24 27 minutes

Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats 2023-Jul-21 32 minutes

Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun 2023-Jul-17 22 minutes

Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize 2023-Jul-14 31 minutes

CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet 2023-Jul-11 22 minutes

Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing 2023-Jul-07 26 minutes

Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins 2023-Jun-30 32 minutes

Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies. 2023-Jun-22 32 minutes

Weekly: Claims that secret alien technology is held in the US; link between gut bacteria and intelligence; the parasite that makes ants live longer 2023-Jun-15 24 minutes

#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions 2023-Jun-13 20 minutes

#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter 2023-Jun-08 23 minutes

#197 Ancient human Homo naledi had advanced culture; AI passes the world’s biggest Turing Test; climate change hits New York 2023-Jun-08 31 minutes

#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically 2023-Jun-05 30 minutes

#195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat 2023-Jun-01 26 minutes

#194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate 2023-May-26 34 minutes

#193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink 2023-May-25 31 minutes

#192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death 2023-May-18 20 minutes

#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science 2023-May-11 20 minutes

#190 Problems for lab-grown meat; do we need vitamin D supplements?; waking the sleeping Arctic ocean; fish sing for Eurovision 2023-May-11 30 minutes

#189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors 2023-May-04 25 minutes

#188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut 2023-May-04 24 minutes

#187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben 2023-Apr-28 15 minutes

#186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA 2023-Apr-27 31 minutes

#185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans 2023-Apr-26 21 minutes

#184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health 2023-Apr-23 16 minutes

#183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism? 2023-Apr-20 20 minutes

#182 3D-printing inside living organisms; what ChatGPT means for human intelligence; why insects fly towards light; carbon storage in the oceans 2023-Apr-20 30 minutes

#181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter 2023-Apr-13 32 minutes

#180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō 2023-Apr-06 24 minutes

#179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth 2023-Mar-30 33 minutes

#178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023 2023-Mar-23 30 minutes

#177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard 2023-Mar-21 20 minutes

#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background 2023-Mar-16 30 minutes

#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold 2023-Mar-15 27 minutes

#174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science 2023-Mar-09 29 minutes

#173 Understanding chronic health conditions; Artificial sweetener linked to heart attacks; Re-thinking galaxies; UN geoengineering report 2023-Mar-02 30 minutes

#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health 2023-Feb-28 20 minutes

#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 2023-Feb-23 27 minutes

#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas 2023-Feb-20 25 minutes

#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers 2023-Feb-16 31 minutes

#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic 2023-Feb-13 19 minutes

#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science 2023-Feb-09 22 minutes

#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease? 2023-Feb-07 32 minutes

#165 Water dowsing to detect leaks; Astroforge going asteroid mining; AI discovers new bacteria-killing proteins – the latest news in science 2023-Feb-02 27 minutes

#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse 2023-Jan-30 21 minutes

#163 Antidepressants; Exoplanets; California’s megadroughts – the latest news in science 2023-Jan-26 25 minutes

#162 How to trigger positive tipping points to tackle climate change 2023-Jan-25 29 minutes

#161 What they don’t tell you about the climate crisis with Assaad Razzouk 2023-Jan-23 21 minutes

#160 Rejuvenation treatments; world to breach 1.5 degrees of global heating 2023-Jan-19 29 minutes

#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia 2023-Jan-16 21 minutes

#158 Exxon’s 1970s predictions for climate change were super accurate 2023-Jan-12 19 minutes

#157 Computer lawyer takes first court case; brains speed up with age 2023-Jan-12 27 minutes

#156: What you need to know in science and culture for 2023 2023-Jan-05 28 minutes

#155: Our five favourite New Scientist long-reads from 2022 2022-Dec-25 29 minutes

#154: News review 2022 - stand-out moments and funniest stories 2022-Dec-21 33 minutes

#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate change 2022-Dec-15 36 minutes

#152 Ancient species of human could control fire; complete brain map of fly 2022-Dec-07 34 minutes

#151 COP15: the meeting to save life on Earth; anti-ageing properties of urine 2022-Dec-01 28 minutes

#150 Megadrought in the US; how to move an elephant 2022-Nov-24 29 minutes

#149 COP27 treaty emerges; a method to discover wormholes 2022-Nov-17 34 minutes

#148 Climate action from COP27; world population reaches 8 billion 2022-Nov-10 30 minutes

#147 The oldest yew trees in Europe – and how to save them 2022-Nov-07 11 minutes

#146 Accelerated end to fossil fuel; double discovery on Mars 2022-Nov-03 24 minutes

#145 COP27 climate summit preview; unexpected animal sounds 2022-Oct-27 24 minutes

#144 Geoengineering plan to slow the melt of arctic ice 2022-Oct-23 28 minutes

#143 Bird flu sweeps UK; secrets of the Neanderthal family 2022-Oct-20 28 minutes

#142: We need to talk about mental health and climate change 2022-Oct-17 17 minutes

#141 Energy threat to international security; a new form of multiplication 2022-Oct-13 32 minutes

#140 New Scientist Live Ask-us-Anything bonus episode 2022-Oct-11 24 minutes

#139 Gas leak impact on climate change; a new way to explain life 2022-Oct-06 31 minutes

#138 UK government’s attack on nature; when you can’t stop laughing 2022-Sep-29 25 minutes

#137 How to turn the shipping industry green; Enceladus passes habitability test 2022-Sep-22 29 minutes

#136 A step towards building artificial life; solar-powered slugs 2022-Sep-15 26 minutes

#135 The Amazon passes a tipping point; a place to live only 100 light years away 2022-Sep-08 30 minutes

#134 Artemis moon mission; decoding the dreams of mice 2022-Aug-31 28 minutes

#133 A treatment for food allergies; predicting earthquakes 2022-Aug-24 28 minutes

#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys 2022-Aug-17 31 minutes

#131 Why thinking hard tires you out; game-changing US climate bill 2022-Aug-11 32 minutes

#130 How to reverse death; Neil Gaiman on Sandman; AlphaFold and biology’s revolution; life in the multiverse with Laura Mersini-Houghton 2022-Aug-04 36 minutes

#129 BlueDot special: Mysteries of the universe; stories of hope and joy; growing tiny human brains; solving global problems 2022-Jul-28 47 minutes

#128 Extreme heatwaves; China’s space station launch; covid’s effects in pregnancy; a black hole symphony 2022-Jul-21 25 minutes

#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 2022-Jul-14 30 minutes

#126: Are we stuck in a time loop? Legal action against climate change; covid fifth wave; time loop are we stuck? 2022-Jul-07 32 minutes

#125: Poo transplants cure IBS; climate change shrinks the human niche; CRISPR babies; monkeypox latest 2022-Jun-30 31 minutes

#124: Lopsided universe; solar activity affects heart health; hero rats trained for rescue missions 2022-Jun-23 30 minutes

#123: ‘Sentient’ claim for Google AI; spacecraft spots starquakes; the rise of the mammals; hot brains 2022-Jun-16 31 minutes

#122: The science of Top Gun; the 1.5°C climate goal is out of reach; return to the moon; hepatitis mystery 2022-Jun-09 29 minutes

#121: Creation of artificial life; gene therapy saves children’s lives; new understanding of chronic pain 2022-Jun-01 33 minutes

#120: DeepMind claims artificial intelligence breakthrough; searching for ancient life on Mars; Stonehenge surprise; monkeypox latest 2022-May-26 32 minutes

#119: How to tackle the global food crisis; rainforest animal orchestra; George Monbiot on humanity’s biggest blight 2022-May-19 28 minutes

#118: Heatwaves push limits of human tolerance; chemical computer to mimic brain; first non-human to practice medicine 2022-May-12 31 minutes

#117: US threat to women’s health; saving the world with bacteria; Darwinian feminism and primate gender; invasion of the earthworms 2022-May-05 28 minutes

#116: DNA from outer space; Devi Sridhar on covid lessons; climate change in an Oxford wood 2022-Apr-28 34 minutes

#115: Quantum consciousness; next decade of space exploration; songs played on rat whiskers 2022-Apr-21 31 minutes

#114: A message to aliens, phage therapy for acne, calibrating the world’s oldest computer 2022-Apr-14 20 minutes

#113: Climate change: suing governments to cut emissions; shock discovery in particle physics; a new function for dreams 2022-Apr-07 30 minutes

#112: Gene therapy success; biodiversity talks; the genetics of blood sucking; the farthest star ever seen 2022-Mar-31 28 minutes

#111: Antarctic and Arctic record-breaking heat; octopus brains insight; black hole paradox explained 2022-Mar-24 30 minutes

#110: Solution for Ukraine food crisis; why young blood rejuvenates; climate horror in Australia; Hannah Peel’s new music 2022-Mar-18 31 minutes

#109: Ukraine war stokes energy crisis; emergency sounded over Amazon rainforest; secular intelligent design; mammalian virgin birth 2022-Mar-11 34 minutes

#108: Ukraine: health crisis and threat of nuclear war; IPCC report on limits to climate adaptation; Wuhan origin of covid 2022-Mar-04 35 minutes

#107: Ukraine invasion: cyberwar threat and effect on climate targets; Covid pandemic isn’t over; how we sense pain 2022-Feb-25 35 minutes

#106: Saving children from cancer; new ways to remove greenhouse gases; brain growth in adults 2022-Feb-18 32 minutes

#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 2022-Feb-11 28 minutes

#104: Gene variant for extreme old age, gravitational waves and dark matter, what fruit flies tell us about nature and nurture 2022-Feb-04 31 minutes

#103: How covid affects brain function; glacier loss on Svalbard; start of the Anthropocene; hottest life on Earth 2022-Jan-28 34 minutes

#102: Living with covid; Tonga eruption; neutral atom quantum computers; phage therapy for superbugs; AI with Beth Singler 2022-Jan-21 30 minutes

#101: Man gets first pig heart transplant; robot therapy for mental health; omicron update; dolphin sexual pleasure 2022-Jan-14 35 minutes

#100: New Scientist journalists pick out their scientific and cultural highlights for 2022 2022-Jan-07 26 minutes

#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz 2021-Dec-24 42 minutes

#98: Brain cells wired to the Matrix; omicron latest; how to make truly intelligent machines; the mysterious border between sleep and wake 2021-Dec-17 28 minutes

#97: The latest on omicron; Don’t Look Up review; Steven Pinker on human rationality; the sound of melting glaciers 2021-Dec-10 30 minutes

#96: What does the rise of omicron mean for us?; living robots able to reproduce; mini black holes and the end of the universe 2021-Dec-03 25 minutes

#95: The origin of coronavirus; how red light boosts eyesight; deflecting asteroids; body chemical changes human behaviour 2021-Nov-26 28 minutes

#94: IBM’s huge quantum computer, Russia’s anti-satellite weapon, the verdict on COP26, AI predicting the next legal highs 2021-Nov-19 30 minutes

#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 2021-Nov-12 39 minutes

#92: COP26 week 1 special from Glasgow; first Earthlings to go interstellar; genetically engineered microbes for our cells 2021-Nov-05 36 minutes

#91: Earth heading for climate disaster; Kim Stanley Robinson looks to the future; hunt for aliens; Tesla worth $1 trillion 2021-Oct-28 27 minutes

#90: COP26 climate playlist; the science of Dune; life-saving treatment for children without immune systems; covid sweeps Iran 2021-Oct-21 31 minutes

#89: Climate-ready food of the future; the biology of poverty; deepfake audio; mystery cosmic signal; Captain Kirk in space 2021-Oct-14 21 minutes

#88: Should climate activism go to extreme levels?; malaria vaccine; new drugs to treat covid; mission to the asteroid belt 2021-Oct-07 27 minutes

#87: Mini black holes impacting the moon; first CRISPR gene-edited food goes on sale; why leaves turn brown in autumn 2021-Sep-30 27 minutes

#86: The woman who couldn’t smell; solving the climate and biodiversity emergencies; China’s quantum of solace 2021-Sep-23 27 minutes

#85: The violent frontline of climate change; bringing back the mammoth; another first for SpaceX 2021-Sep-16 31 minutes

#84: Health benefits of male flatulence; cave dwellings on Mars; covid booster shots 2021-Sep-09 26 minutes

#83: Low carbon shipping; Anil Seth on consciousness; humanity’s ancient history in Arabia; quantum gravity 2021-Sep-02 30 minutes

#82: Taliban seize Afghan biometric equipment; uploading our brains to machines; investigating Nazi uranium 2021-Aug-26 25 minutes

#81: Breakthrough in nuclear fusion; mini human brain grown with eyes; rapid evolution of synthetic bacteria 2021-Aug-19 29 minutes

#80: Analysis of IPCC climate report; the rise of synthetic milk; discovery of new carnivorous plant 2021-Aug-12 28 minutes

#79: Google creates a time crystal; microplastics in human placenta; boosting China’s vaccines; our climate future 2021-Aug-05 23 minutes

#78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather 2021-Jul-29 27 minutes

#77: Is dropping covid restrictions unethical?; methane hints to life on Mars; Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin’s road to space 2021-Jul-22 24 minutes

#76: Harm of race-based medicine; space tourism industry is go; America’s heatwave challenges 2021-Jul-15 22 minutes

#75: Vaccine for kids; legacy of Dolly the sheep; how to repair the climate; China’s quantum advantage 2021-Jul-08 27 minutes

#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 2021-Jul-01 23 minutes

#73: How to treat long covid; evolution of cooperation; Turing’s ACE computer; aliens watching Earth 2021-Jun-24 30 minutes

#72: The evil in all of us; delta variant of coronavirus; glacier memory project 2021-Jun-17 27 minutes

#71: Alzheimer’s treatment approved; human brain map breakthrough; time flowing backwards 2021-Jun-10 28 minutes

#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap 2021-Jun-03 26 minutes

#69: Coronavirus evolution; geoengineering and food supply; Alice Roberts on the revolution in archaeology 2021-May-27 26 minutes

#68: Climate change and methane mystery; breathable liquid; covid vaccines 2021-May-20 22 minutes

#67: Brain plasticity; entropy and the nature of time; vaccine booster shots 2021-May-13 27 minutes

#66: Sea level rise; Bitcoin carbon pollution; how to measure self-awareness 2021-May-06 27 minutes

#65: Chernobyl radiation safety; Chinese space station; wisdom of trees 2021-Apr-29 29 minutes

#64: Earth Day rescue plan: climate change and biodiversity special 2021-Apr-22 31 minutes

#63: Musical spider’s webs; magic mushrooms for treating depression; the sound of coronavirus 2021-Apr-15 26 minutes

#62: Synthetic life; rescue plan for Earth; muon g-2 new physics 2021-Apr-08 28 minutes

#61: Worse allergies; black hole in our backyard; new flavours of vanilla 2021-Apr-01 24 minutes

#60: New physics; anti-ageing human embryos; Mars update 2021-Mar-26 26 minutes

#59: Vaccine success; hibernation and anti-ageing; world’s first computer 2021-Mar-19 28 minutes

#58: Covid good news; cold water swimming; quantum unreality 2021-Mar-12 23 minutes

#57: Moon base; Neanderthal speech; Elizabeth Kolbert on geoengineering 2021-Mar-05 28 minutes

#56: How to spend a trillion dollars; landing on Mars; exercise and metabolism myths 2021-Feb-26 25 minutes

#55: Rescuing nature; Mars missions; new covid mutation 2021-Feb-19 24 minutes

#54: Next-gen vaccines; alien space probes; ethics of fish 2021-Feb-12 27 minutes

#53: Pandemic burnout; vaccines for the world; sustainable fuel 2021-Feb-05 26 minutes

#52: Life after vaccination; gaslighting; mind reading 2021-Jan-29 24 minutes

#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data 2021-Jan-22 26 minutes

#50: Covid vaccine dosing; superconductors; coral restoration 2021-Jan-15 34 minutes

#49: New coronavirus variants 2021-Jan-08 26 minutes

#48: Must-know science of 2021 2021-Jan-01 29 minutes

#47: Christmas special quiz of the year 2020-Dec-18 28 minutes

#46: Stardust hunting, the illusion of the self, space rocks return to Earth 2020-Dec-11 28 minutes

#45: Vaccine roll out in UK and China; Chris Packham on connectedness; AlphaFold breakthrough 2020-Dec-04 33 minutes

#44: When we’ll get the vaccine; fast-expanding universe; lunar missions 2020-Nov-27 35 minutes

#43: How the covid RNA vaccine works; systemic racism; origin of humans 2020-Nov-20 29 minutes

#42: Vaccine for covid-19; origin of animals; overpopulation 2020-Nov-13 27 minutes

#41: The function of dreams 2020-Nov-06 25 minutes

#40: Halloween special: real-life vampires, the science of ghosts, deep-sea zombies, monster black holes 2020-Oct-30 28 minutes

#39: Social lives of viruses; CRISPR to fight antibiotic resistance; dealing with risk; George RR Martin and the moon 2020-Oct-22 28 minutes

#38: Tackling the climate crisis; essential, like, filler words of, um, language; mystery of the human penis; your covid questions answered 2020-Oct-15 33 minutes

#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19 2020-Oct-08 31 minutes

#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 2020-Oct-01 32 minutes

#35: The first woman on the moon; evolution special; purpose of sleep and dreams; deep water mystery 2020-Sep-24 32 minutes

#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time 2020-Sep-17 33 minutes

#33: The healthy-eating revolution; China’s cosmic ambitions; Russia’s pursuit of gene-editing technology; the world’s greatest mammal 2020-Sep-10 30 minutes

#32: Billionaire plan to geoengineer the planet; how the moon affects your health; Neuralink’s telepathic pigs 2020-Sep-03 34 minutes

#31: Widening the search for alien life on habitable planets; why unconscious bias training might not work; the microbiome of cancer tumours 2020-Aug-27 24 minutes

#30: Redefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades 2020-Aug-20 30 minutes

#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first 2020-Aug-13 31 minutes

#28: Origin of life on Earth; second wave of coronavirus; science of miscarriage 2020-Aug-06 34 minutes

#27: Putting plastic back on the agenda; revisiting the iconic black hole image, how dinosaurs dominated the planet 2020-Jul-30 29 minutes

#26: The hidden dark matter of our food; NASA’s new search for life on Mars; smallpox in the American civil war 2020-Jul-23 28 minutes

#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 2020-Jul-16 31 minutes

#24: Half a year in a world of covid-19; meat production breaking Earth’s nitrogen limits; what does gravity weigh? 2020-Jul-09 31 minutes

#23: Coronavirus immunity and vaccine implications; evolutionary reasons for the types of world leader; treating people with CRISPR gene editing 2020-Jul-02 33 minutes

#22: Consciousness from the body as well as the brain; record temperatures in the Arctic; long-term symptoms of covid-19 2020-Jun-26 24 minutes

#21: How to prevent future pandemics, black lives matter and racism in science, suspended animation 2020-Jun-19 27 minutes

#20: Human cryptic mate choice, cracking nuclear fusion, countering coronavirus misinformation 2020-Jun-12 28 minutes

#19: How the UK got it wrong on coronavirus, mystery around chronic Lyme, Greta Thunberg’s musical debut 2020-Jun-05 28 minutes

#18: Bending the curve on climate change, the era of commercial space travel, staying safe from coronavirus 2020-May-29 25 minutes

#17: The truth about our appetites, the impact of coronavirus on conservation, mud volcanoes on Mars 2020-May-22 30 minutes

#16: Hints of a new force of nature; making mice with human cells; seaweed in the fight against climate change 2020-May-15 26 minutes

#15: Mystery of radio signals from deep space; the future of music; epidemic of bad coronavirus science 2020-May-08 28 minutes

#14: Dreams, sleep and coronavirus, a new explanation of consciousness, brain-stimulation anorexia treatment 2020-May-01 31 minutes

#13: Evidence for a parallel universe, protecting mental health in lockdown, why covid-19 hits men harder 2020-Apr-24 29 minutes

#12: Strength training for better health, bats mimic sound, biggest ever supernova 2020-Apr-17 21 minutes

#11: Covid World, coronavirus in New York, invasion of parakeets, bacteria and their amazing powers 2020-Apr-10 31 minutes

#10: Coronavirus questions answered, revolution in human evolution, mind-reading computers 2020-Apr-03 25 minutes

#9: Coronavirus lockdown – how to flatten the curve, reset the immune system, and the world’s most hardcore mammal 2020-Mar-27 33 minutes

#8: Coronavirus special – disaster preparation, environmental change and disease emergence; plus science round-up 2020-Mar-20 34 minutes

#7: Coronavirus vaccine, neutrinos in the early universe, and organ transplants 2020-Mar-13 25 minutes

#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing 2020-Mar-06 33 minutes

#5: Pandemic preparations, mind-reading – and a trillion trees 2020-Feb-28 27 minutes

#4: Lab-grown meat, Neanderthal burials, and space tourism 2020-Feb-21 28 minutes

#3: Coronavirus latest, a woman with half a brain, and love drugs 2020-Feb-14 26 minutes

#2: Weird quantum experiment, origin of the alphabet, and coronavirus developments 2020-Feb-07 22 minutes

#1: Wuhan coronavirus, nuclear fusion, and the Solar Orbiter spacecraft 2020-Jan-31 25 minutes