The World, the Universe and Us

The Dangerous Bias Shaping the Future of AI

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 354 Women are being erased from AI technologies. When world-changing technology is built primarily by men, the impact for women is hugely dam...

Rebecca Solnit On Why the Future Isn’t as Dark as It Looks

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 353 The world might feel dark right now, but life is actually getting better, rapidly. From the rise of feminism and antiracism to environmen...

Why The Iran War Is Speeding The End Of The Fossil Fuel Era

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 352 Notwithstanding President Trump’s efforts to slow the growth of renewable energy, the US/Israeli attack on Iran has given the green rev...

Mathematics is Undergoing the Biggest Change in its History

13 Mar 2026

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Episode 351 Artificial intelligence is starting to solve mathematical theorems better than humans. Mathematicians say AI is now an existential threat...

The Radical Theory That Could Force Us To Rethink Alzheimer’s

11 Mar 2026

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Episode 350 What If Alzheimer’s disease starts in the body, not the brain? A radical new theory upends everything we thought we knew about the dise...

We Now Have Early Warning Signal Of Ocean Current Collapse

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 349 One of the most vital systems of ocean currents - needed to keep life in northern Europe stable - is at risk of collapse. And now we can ...

Two 'Extinct' Mammals Species Have Been Discovered in New Guinea

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 348 Thought extinct for 6,000 years, two marsupial species have been discovered alive in New Guinea. Biologists have found a new genus of mar...

How Ukraine Became a Drone Factory - and Changed Warfare Forever

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 347 Drones have taken over the battlefield in Russia’s war on Ukraine. Tens of thousands of drones are being produced every day - operating...

The world is running out of water - can cloud-seeding save us?; Why some people get stuck in grief; Is our black hole actually a clump of dark matter?

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 346 The world is running out of water, with many countries suffering from significant water shortages. We’re now having to rely on groundwa...

How ancient humans crossed the vast ocean; Brain training for dementia; Life of science legend Maggie Aderin

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 345 More than 8,500 years ago, ancient people crossed the ocean to the remote island of Malta for the first time. Long before compasses or sa...

Why Elon Musk plans to put 1 million satellites in orbit; Should we be giving sleep drugs to kids?; Why global pesticide risk is not improving

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 344 Elon Musk has announced he wants to merge SpaceX with another of his companies, xAI, and launch one million satellites into space. One re...

Mini human brain grows blood vessels; The geoengineering risk of termination shock; Trove of ancient fossils discovered

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 343 The task of growing human brains in a lab has taken a step forward. Scientists have been creating brain organoids since 2013, but have no...

The 5 worst ideas of the 21st century – and how they went wrong

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 342 Social media began with the best intentions - but it soon went sour. Platforms that once fostered connection are now driven by an endless...

Rutger Bregman on the crisis of moral ambition; Why primates have same-sex relationships; Living longer is easier than you think; Bizarre method to fight climate change

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 341 "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." A compelling quote that sums up the thesis...

Why does America want Greenland?; Mystery of dark DNA; Ozempic weight rebound

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 340 Acquiring Greenland has been deemed a national security priority by America. President Trump wants to use the country to deter adversarie...

Humans are finally heading back to the moon; Cheaper weight loss drugs are coming; Milestone for LSD trials; Promise of new carbon tax

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 339 Humans are finally going back to the moon. NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch in April, taking four astronauts in a loop around...

Best science TV, film and books of 2025 | The New Scientist culture review

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 336 Looking for something great to read or watch on TV over the festive period? We’ve got you covered. In a special edition of the podcast,...

Top Science Stories of 2025 | The New Scientist Features Special

19 Dec 2025

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Episode 337 As we reach the end of the year, catch up on some of New Scientist’s most exciting and thought-provoking features of the past twelve mo...

Orcas and dolphins are now hunting together; Genetic root of psychiatric conditions; Black hole stars and cosmic ecology

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 336 In an unlikely turn of events, orcas and dolphins have been observed teaming up - to hunt and kill massive chinook salmon in the pacific....

How exercise shrinks tumours and starves cancer; Weird molecules found on comet 3I/ATLAS; Einstein v Bohr on the nature of light

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 335 Exercise has been shown to shrink tumours by 60 per cent. A new study shows another link between regular exercise and cancer prevention, ...

The evolution of sperm and the enduring mystery of the scrotum; How our brain rewires itself 4 times in life; The (real) disaster scenarios of imminent climate breakdown

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 334 Which sperm is the oldest sperm - the ancestor sperm that came before all others? Well, you might think it links back to an ancient anima...

The origin and evolution of music: Steve Pretty plays the conch

21 Nov 2025

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Episode 333 It’s not often you get to see or hear someone playing music on a conch shell. So prepare yourself for a musical treat with musician and...

New genome of ancient human; 95% of us have a dormant virus that causes disease; Formula E cars faster than F1; Bill Bryson joins the pod!

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 332 For only the second time, the genome of an ancient Denisovan has been sequenced - thanks to the discovery of a 200,000-year-old tooth fou...

Why the claims about Hitler’s genome are misleading

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 331 This week sees the broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK of a documentary called Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a dictator. Geneticists have man...

COP30: The world's climate future hinges on this meeting

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 330 COP30 is nearly upon us - and this climate conference may be the most crucial so far. In a year where we’ve seen the first major global...

The collapse of America’s health data system; How sleep affects your focus; Life on Mars in liquid veins?

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 329 America’s health data system is in crisis. The US government has been bleeding public health experts – many of whom run crucial publi...

How mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action; Why birds sing the dawn chorus

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 328 Not only has the mRNA covid vaccine saved 14 million lives, it may also help our bodies fight off cancer. A study of cancer patients unde...

Neuroscience of reality; Quest for dark matter; Folklore of geoscience (New Scientist Live Special)

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 327 A special episode recorded on October 18 at New Scientist Live in London, featuring experts in geoscience, dark matter and neuroscience. ...

First climate tipping point triggered; Man controls another person's body by brain implant; health worries over sumo wrestlers

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 326 The world’s first major climate tipping point has been triggered. The decimation of warm water coral populations caused by rising tempe...

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

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A special episode all about the future of space exploration, recorded in front of a live audience at the Royal Society in London. Earlier this year, ...

How Jane Goodall changed the world; How the universe ends; How “selfish sperm” affect male fertility

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 324 The legendary primatologist Jane Goodall died last week aged 91, leaving behind a remarkable legacy. Her work studying tool use in chimpa...

Emergency in Antarctica; How movement changes the brain; Why women live longer than men

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 323 Temperatures in Antarctica have soared by over 35°C. Scientists are concerned about how quickly things are changing on the continent as ...

Skull rewrites story of human evolution; Autism and Tylenol; discovery of wind coming from black hole

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 322 An ancient skull discovered in China may have just rewritten the story of human evolution. It’s widely accepted that the common ancesto...

The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives; the asteroid coming VERY close to Earth; how dinosaurs shaped the ecosystem

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 321 Humans live a lot longer than other primates - and much of that is down to our immune system. But there’s a price we pay for the capaci...

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

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 320 Was Mars once home to alien life? The evidence is stronger than ever, since NASA’s discovery of rocks marked by patterns similar to tho...

First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 319 Scientists have created the first complete activity map of a mouse’s brain. Combining brain images from multiple mice, researchers reco...

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

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 318 An ancient organism has been discovered that has been alive for at least 100,000 years. Found in the Siberian permafrost, this lifeform d...

Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome of chocolate

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 317 Winter bugs are notoriously hard to vaccinate against. But as cold, flu and covid season is about to descend on us once more, one group r...

Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 316 “All of the other planets out there are just complete garbage. The Earth is the only good place.” – Kate Marvel The climate crisis...

80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 315 It’s been 80 years since the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war - events that altered the course of history. The consequences...

Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium; geology of the Russian earthquake

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 314 Weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy have been shown to slow down - or even reverse - the ageing process. In a trial of 84 people taking ...

AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep; Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 313 AI has won gold at the world’s hardest maths event. For the first time, AI programs that use entirely natural language like ChatGPT, ha...

Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; New theory why we’ve not found aliens

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 312 People have been given genetically engineered microbes to prevent a common health condition - and it worked. The gut microbiome is now kn...

How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathematics?; Why exercise reduces cancer risk

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 311 Geoengineering could be the best way to avoid catastrophic climate disaster - but there’s a big catch. In the recent Global Tipping Poi...

First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 310 An ancient Egyptian's complete genome has been read for the first time. The DNA of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a ...

Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ep 309 A groundbreaking experiment in reproductive biology has resulted in mice being born from two biological fathers. By fusing sperm and putting t...

First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 308 An ancient skull discovered in China has been confirmed to belong to a Denisovan. It’s been tough to study this mysterious human ancest...

Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 307 Using new “ultrasoft” electronics, researchers at Harvard have effectively created tadpole cyborgs. A soft bioelectronic device has b...

$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 306 It’s been discovered that the moon is probably home to $1 trillion worth of platinum. Researchers suggest nearly 6500 of the Moon’s c...

The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 305 As artificial intelligence grows into more and more aspects of our lives, it seems we’re just at the beginning of the boom. Hundreds of...

Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 304 It seems the world is on heightened alert about the impact smartphones are having on our children’s brains. But are we right to be worr...

China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 303 China is becoming a de facto leader in the fight against climate change. Right now it’s the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide...

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

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We dive into the mysterious world of the deep sea, sparked by a recent executive order aiming to ramp up offshore mineral extraction, as well as new r...

Is our understanding of light completely wrong? Two consciousness theories go head-to-head; decoding dolphin whistles

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 301 Our understanding of the nature of light might be completely wrong. The double-slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in p...

Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 299 In a climate justice special episode of the podcast, the biggest issue of the century is up for discussion. Find out the true impact of cl...

Weekly: First brain engineering in a mammal; landmark in fossil fuel lawsuits, the legacy of Pope Francis

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 300 The first genetically engineered synapses have been implanted in a mammal’s brain. Chemical brain signals have been bypassed in the brai...

Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet?

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 298 Big news has just broken - astronomers claim they’ve detected the strongest evidence for alien life yet. The news has got the world’s ...

Weekly: Dire wolves (not) brought back from extinction; US science in existential crisis; how to pour the perfect coffee

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 297 The “de-extinction company” Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought dire wolves back from extinction. This is an ancient animal th...

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

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 296 There’s a strange phenomenon in the plant world that we’ve known about for ages - but have only just figured out how to make use of it...

Weekly: A remarkable view of pregnancy; how to waste less time on your smartphone; superacid diamond rain

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 295 The changes the body goes through during and after pregnancy have been examined in more detail than ever before. A landmark study is final...

Weekly: Life on Mars; biggest dark energy discovery in decades; the mystery of dark oxygen

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 294 Markings discovered on rocks from Mars look to be good evidence that microbial life once existed on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance ...

Weekly: America is turning its back on science and the cosmos; photosynthesis limits; mysterious memory illusion

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 293 The future of NASA and of US science is under threat, following cuts made by the Trump administration. Johns Hopkins University lost $800 ...

Weekly: Chimps, bonobos and humans have more in common than you might think

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 292 Chimps are often seen as our hyper-aggressive ancestral cousins, while bonobos are famously more peaceful and caring. But studies of their...

Weekly: How to finally get a good night’s sleep - with science

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 291 Who got better sleep - hunter-gatherers or modern-day humans? We’re constantly being told we’re in the midst of an epidemic of poor sl...

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

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 290 Mice have been found saving the lives of their cagemates by performing a resuscitation technique similar to CPR. After opening the mouth o...

Weekly: Resurrecting frozen brains; giant asteroid heads to Earth; you really do have a ‘dessert stomach’

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 289 Slices of mouse brains have been revived after being in deep freeze, hinting at the future possibility of reanimating humans who have been...

Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 288 President Trump has launched what’s being described as an all-out assault on science and medicine. Given America’s impact on global sc...

Weekly: Is DeepSeek really the ChatGPT killer?; alarming scale of ocean warming; dolphin peeing contests

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 287 Chinese AI company DeepSeek unexpectedly stormed onto the scene just a few days ago - a move that has shaken the big US AI companies. The ...

Weekly: The Trump impact on climate and global health; the placebo effect’s evil twin; the mystery of dark oxygen

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 286 President Trump has signed executive orders pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement, and out of the World Health Organization. A...

Weekly: The truth about Iron Age women; Climate whiplash and the LA wildfires; Rebooting the world’s first chatbot

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 285 New archaeological evidence from Iron Age Britain has shaken up long-held beliefs about the role of women in ancient civilisations. By stu...

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

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 284 Creating disease-resistant humans may before too long be a reality thanks to advancements in CRISPR gene editing. It’s now possible to m...

Weekly: All You Need To Know For Science in 2025

03 Jan 2025

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Episode 283 On this special episode of the podcast, we set you up for the year ahead. 2025 has been declared the year of humanoid robots. Futuristic r...

Weekly: The Best of New Scientist in 2024: From Volcanic Diamonds to Immortal Brains

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 282 Looking back at some of the best stories New Scientist has published in 2024, this episode is a treasure trove of knowledge that will serv...

Weekly: Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 281 In this special episode recorded live at the Science Museum in London, we celebrate some of the best, most awe-inspiring science stories o...

Weekly: Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 280 Google claims it has pulled ahead in the race for quantum supremacy. Its new Willow chip has completed a task in 5 minutes that a classica...

Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 279 Antarctic sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate. A collapse like the one we’re seeing was given just a 1 in 700 billion year chanc...

Weekly: Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 278 Concerns about bird flu are rising as two cases in North America suggest the virus is adapting to humans. Evidence of human-to-human trans...

Weekly: Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 277 Chimps are an intelligent species, capable of using tools and developing culture - so why have humans surpassed them to such a huge extent...

Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 276 Are the COP climate summits doing enough to help us avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change, or are they not fit for purpose,...

Weekly: The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree

08 Nov 2024

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Episode 275 The origins of the world’s oldest known writing system are being uncovered. Cuneiform was invented around 3200 BC in ancient Mesopotamia...

Weekly: Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 274 World leaders are in Colombia for the COP16 biodiversity summit. As delegates hash out a path forward, have we actually made any progress ...

Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well

25 Oct 2024

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Episode 273 The mystery of “Well Man”, an ancient cold case, has just been solved. A Norse saga tells that in 1197, in the midst of a Viking raid,...

Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 272 SpaceX has made history with its Starship rocket, the largest rocket ever built and one that’s hoped to eventually take us to Mars. In i...

Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 271 If we overshoot 1.5 degrees of global warming, there is no going back. The hope has long been that if - and when - we blow past our climat...

The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The great auk was a flightless bird which was last spotted in Iceland in 1844. It is the subject of the book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the ...

Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 270 There may be hope for the survival of coral reefs, a vital part of the global underwater ecosystem that is under massive threat from clima...

Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

03 Oct 2024

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Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World is a book about an 18th century mathematical rule for working out probabil...

Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Women have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to have more sensitive noses, sharper hearing at high frequencies, and longer life expectancy t...

Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why We Die is a book about ageing and death, written by Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former president of the Royal Society, Venki Ramakrishnan. V...

A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the heated race to settle humans on Mars continues, is it really a good idea? And what are the biggest challenges to making interplanetary life a r...

Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How often do you upload a picture of yourself online? And what happens to that photo long after it's been posted? The truth may shock you, as we find ...

Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 269 Could we re-freeze the Arctic… and should we? The Arctic is losing ice at an alarming rate and it’s too late to save it by cutting emi...

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

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 268 Research has long linked loneliness to surprising health conditions, including diabetes and some cancers. The assumption has been that lon...

Weekly: Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 267 The remains of an ancient Neanderthal man discovered in France may be one of the last members of a lost line. Researchers analysing the DN...

CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever heard a haddock knock? What about a cusk eel’s chatter?  Sound travels four-and-a-half times faster through water than air and can be...

Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🎧 Episode 266 ⚡️ The first human blood stem cells have been created in a lab and successfully turned into functioning bone marrow. This researc...

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

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🎧 Episode 265 ⚡️ The latest mpox variant has infected a record number of people in central Africa, has been found in travellers in Sweden and T...

CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wondered how your teenage years shaped the person you are today? Or why certain rebellious behaviours, like underage drinking, seem almost inevit...

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

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#264 Some people in comas can understand what’s happening around them. Previously estimated to be 1 in 10, that figure has now shot up to 1 in 5 –...

Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#263 Anxiety. We’ve all felt it – some worse than others. But what exactly causes anxiety and why are some of us more likely to be hit by it? Scie...