Ian Sample

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2,123 appearances 29 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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Science Weekly · ‘One of the biggest discoveries in science’: have scientists found dark matter? · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

It may just fade away and the search goes on, right? voice-verified

You know, these signals do go away and we can't get our hopes up just yet. voice-verified

Yeah, and you know, that could well happen, even if this result doesn't pan out right. voice-verified

Science Weekly · Are rich people really worse behaved? Here’s the science · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

You're right. matched

They really are the sort of the irreverent, playful cousin of the the very serious Nobel Prizes. matched

And the reason I like these prizes is that they are, I mean, first and foremost, just an enormous amount of fun, right? matched

I mean, it's routinely pulling out these research studies that really often do make you laugh out loud, but they also show you the importance and and sort matched

Encourage you to think about creativity in science. matched

Like what might science be able to tell us about the world? matched

I really like that aspect of it. matched

But the thing is, it's just an enormous hoot, right? matched

Yeah. matched

Because this is um a ceremony where you have bona fide Nobel laureates handing out prizes to these researchers who come on stage and then they have to describe their work in 24 seconds and then in seven words. matched

So they called the 20. matched

Lectures, you know, they get um a $10 trillion bill as their prize, but it's actually from Zimbabwe's era of hyperinflation, and that note's been phased out. matched

It's worthless apart from to collectors. matched

And you know, the physical prize this year was this sort of horrible blue cheese shape with a foot on top and a mushroom sprouting out and toes coming up between the toes, quite grotesque. matched

prize and when people go up and get their prizes people are throwing paper airplanes and it's just a big old fun bash. matched

So this prize went to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and the researcher I spoke to there was Dr. matched

Paul Piff. matched

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