The World, the Universe and Us

CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far.

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With so many new TV series and documentaries available, it can be tough to decide what's truly worth your time. That’s where our TV columnist Bethan...

Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#262 Geologists have just drilled deeper into Earth’s mantle than ever before. The hole is in an area of the ocean called Atlantis Massif, where the...

Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earth and all the other planets in our solar system are being dragged on a joyride through the universe, as the Dead Planeteers attempt to move the su...

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

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#261 What was the first life on Earth like? Ancient fossils hint it could be a primitive kind of bacteria – but these 3.5 billion-year-old fossilise...

CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Quantum theory describes the tiny building blocks that make up everything around us. It has made many successful predictions but could a new, more rad...

Weekly: Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#260 Most of us imagine plants when we think about the production of oxygen. But turns out, in the deep sea, metal-rich rocks also seem to generate ox...

Dead Planets Society: Can We Burn Uranus?

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What would it take to set Uranus ablaze? Is it even possible to burn it in the typical sense? If anyone can figure it out, it's the Dead Planets Socie...

Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#259 More people in the US are getting bird flu. Though numbers are small – just five new cases, all mild – every new case is a reason for concern...

CultureLab: The incredible, intelligent abilities of plants with Zoë Schlanger

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if we told you plants can hear and see? And memorise information? And track time to adapt their pollination techniques? And even look out for the...

Weekly: Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#258 Fancy a bite of woolly mammoth jerky? A beef-jerky-like fossil of this prehistoric creature has been discovered – a metre-long piece of skin st...

Dead Planets Society: Putting Black Holes Inside Stuff

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Primordial black holes are tiny versions of the big beasts you typically think of. They’re so small, they could easily fit inside stuff, like a plan...

Weekly: World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#257 Two extraordinary findings have been unearthed about our ancient ancestors. The first is a discovery from a cave in Australia – evidence of wha...

CultureLab: Sonifying Mars, symphonically, with David Ibbett

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Despite humans having never set foot on Mars, scientists have been working for decades to paint a picture of life on the red planet. With the help of ...

Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#256 A new gene editing technique may be more powerful than CRISPR. Bridge editing is still in its infancy, but could be revolutionary for its ability...

Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ancient Greeks once proposed the Earth was at the centre of our solar system and everything orbited us. We like that idea. Let’s make it happen....

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

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#255 Why do some people seem to be naturally immune to covid-19? We may finally have the answer and it’s to do with differences in the way immune ce...

CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We like to think of science and medicine as unbiased, unaffected by social constructs. But we see evidence to the contrary everyday, from false yet pe...

Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We know elephants are smart, but it seems we’ve only scratched the surface in understanding their intelligence. It turns out African elephants seem ...

Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the Dead Planeteers, one moon around Earth isn’t enough. They want to pack as many moons into the night sky as possible. But how many can you fi...

Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#253 The moon may hold the answer to a decades-long physics conundrum – all we need to do is drill several kilometres into its surface. For years, p...

CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If (or maybe when) we find alien life in the universe, will it look like us? As telescopes become bigger, our ability to peer into the cosmos is only ...

Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#252 It is not wise to stick cheese on your pizza with glue, even if Google tells you to do it. This is just one recommendation in a string of blunder...

Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When you bring a giant magnet to Mars, apocalyptic eruptions are just the beginning. In an attempt to suck out all of the iron from the red planet, Le...

Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#251 Hurricane season in the Atlantic ocean is set to be extremely active, according to forecasts. Expect to see as many as 25 named tropical storms, ...

CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Dune to The Three Body Problem, is science fiction having a moment? Attention to the genre, as well as TV and films based on it, seems to have ex...

Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#250 There are signs that aliens might be harnessing the power of stars in our galaxy to fuel their civilisations. Dyson spheres are structures that s...

Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Galaxies come in only a few shapes, which are all very round looking. You’ve got spirals and you’ve got blobs. Not content with this boring assort...

Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#249 Do whales have their own alphabet? We’ve long thought the clicking sounds that sperm whales make is their way of chatting to each other, but th...

CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we understand the stakes of climate change, and communicate them? As we’re facing the consequences of climate change and our historical inact...

Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#248 Last year marked the hottest on record, shattering previous temperature benchmarks across both land and sea. The rapid escalation – seemingly a...

Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did you miss out on the recent total eclipse? Don’t fear, we’ve got the solution. We bring you the constant solar eclipse. Chelsea Whyte and Leah ...

Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#247 What does India’s election season mean for climate change? Last year India overtook the European Union as the third largest annual emitter of g...

CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How much faith should we be putting in artificial intelligence? As large language models and generative AI have become increasingly powerful in recent...

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

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#246 Our best climate models for helping limit global warming to 1.5oC may have wildly overestimated our chances. To reach this goal, models are relyi...

Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you destroy a black hole? Turns out they're pretty tough cookies. Kicking off a brand new series of Dead Planets Society, Chelsea Whyte and Lea...

Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#245 The multiverse may be bigger than we thought. The idea that we exist in just one of a massive collection of alternate universes has really captur...

CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Half of the human population undergoes the menstrual cycle for a significant proportion of their lifetimes, yet periods remain a taboo topic in public...

Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#244 Researchers have successfully turned lymph nodes into miniature livers that help filter the blood of mice, pigs and other animals – and now, tr...

Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in March 2021. From beetle explosions to the deep dark depths of the ocean, this episode is all a...

Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#243 As we age our immune systems do too, making us less able to fight infections and more prone to chronic inflammation. But a team of scientists has...

CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fish you wear like a gas mask, moss that turns a robot sentient and critters that will eat your rash – all these oddities and more cohabit on the pl...

Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#242 Human population growth is coming to an end. The global population is expected to peak between 2060 and 2080, then start falling. Many countries ...

Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in March 2021. From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer, this episode i...

Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#241 More than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face widespread hunger, disease and injury as the war quickly becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in m...

CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no moon like our moon. A celestial body twinned with Earth, the moon guides the tides, stabilises our climate, leads the rhythms of animal b...

Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#240 A major step has been made toward bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction – sort of. The company Colossal has the ambitious goal of bring...

Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021. Keeping you cosy this week is an episode all about warmth - emotional, physiolo...

Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#239 Two decades ago, following the Human Genome Project’s release of a first draft in 2001, genetic testing was set to revolutionise healthcare. “...

CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Freezing temperatures, dust storms, radiation, marsquakes – living on Mars right now would be hellish. And getting there remains a multi-year journe...

Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#238 ADHD is a condition that affects millions of people and is marked by impulsivity, restlessness and attention difficulties. But how did ADHD evolv...

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

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021. Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed all in the space of 20 minutes. This...

Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#237 Glaucoma, which can cause blindness by damaging the optic nerve, may be reversible. Researchers have managed to coax new optic nerve cells to gro...

CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Real tech billionaires are reportedly building secret bunkers in case of post-apocalyptic societal collapse. It’s a frightening prospect, a world wh...

Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#236 This week marks two major milestones in the world of fusion. In 2022 a fusion experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created mo...

Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021. From some of the lightest creatures on earth, to the heaviest things in the cos...

Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#235 In very rare cases, Alzheimer’s disease could be transmitted from person to person during medical procedures. This finding comes as five people...

CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Very few places on our planet appear untouchedby humans, but in those that do, nature is still very much in charge – and the scenery is breathtaking...

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

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#234 Is AI really ready to take our jobs? A team looked at whether AI image recognition could replace tasks like checking price tags on items or looki...

Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021. This episode is all about music, so today’s journey of escapism comes complet...

Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#233 A cloned rhesus monkey named ReTro is said to be in good health more than three years after his birth – a landmark achievement, as no other rhe...

CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NASA astronaut Christina Koch not only took part in the first ever all-female spacewalks, but she also holds the record for the longest single spacefl...

Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#232 During pregnancy the brain undergoes profound changes – almost every part of the cortex thins out and loses volume by the third trimester. It’...

Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in January 2021. The theme of this episode is alliances - human, biological and atomic. We start ...

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

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

#231 It’s a new year and that means new science. But what (that we know so far) does 2024 hold?  On the space front, agencies around the world have...

Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in January 2021. An episode of Escape Pod all about understanding. We start by discussing the sel...

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

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What was your favorite science story of 2023? Was it the rise of orca-involved boat sinkings? Or maybe the successful landing of India’s Chandrayaan...

CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking forward to catching up on some reading over the holiday season? Or perhaps you are on the prowl for book recommendations after receivi...

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

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#229 Your hands are heavier than you think. Beer goggles aren’t real. And many water utilities in the United Kingdom still use dowsing to find leaks...

CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Composer Erland Cooper is known for playful, innovative, experimental projects. For example, he buried the only audio copy of a 2021 composition – t...

Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cannabis is one of the oldest products of human cultivation. And as it becomes increasingly legal for medical and recreational use around the world, i...

Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#228 We have a new, landmark climate deal, signalling the beginning of the end of fossil fuels. But even as the announcement at COP28 includes commitm...

CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Australian outback is vast and the population is really spread out. This makes getting access to emergency healthcare incredibly challenging, as y...

Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Human beings have cultivated cannabis for thousands of years. We have been using it for its euphoric effects for at least several thousand. And as pro...

Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#227 Quantum computing researchers at IBM have stepped up the power of their devices by a huge amount. The company’s new device Condor has more than...

CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Did your chemistry lessons involve baking chocolate lava cakes? Have you ever wanted to eat your biology homework? While ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ br...

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

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#226 This year’s COP28 could be the most important climate summit since the Paris Agreement in 2015. After opening in Dubai on Thursday, this will b...

Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cannabis is having a moment. Half of the US population lives in a state where marijuana is legal, and 9 in 10 people nationwide support legalisation i...

Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#225 Life on Mercury? That would be a shocking discovery. The planet is incredibly inhospitable to life… as we know it. But the discovery of salt gl...

Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Turning the Earth into a cube, the gift that just keeps giving. Last episode we had fish bowl spaceships, this time we have sea monsters! If you thoug...

Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is it, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. We’ve killed the sun, smushed the asteroid belt, burrowed into other planets… but now it’s ...

Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#224 Tree planting has become an incredibly popular way of attempting to store carbon dioxide and slow global warming. But new research estimates we m...

CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As astronauts look down on Earth from space, the experience is often life-altering. The “pale blue dot” looks fragile from way up there. And in th...

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

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#223 Spinal cord stimulation has, for the first time, been used to improve the mobility of someone with Parkinson’s Disease. Marc, who has battled t...

Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Asteroids are cool, but they’re all spread out across the solar system. Wouldn’t it be neater if we could smush them all together to make one MEGA...

Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#222 At this point, most people have heard the accepted wisdom that you need 8 hours sleep every night, especially for a healthy brain. But what if we...

CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know we have King Louis XIV to thank for fistula surgeries? After surgeons worked hard to find a cure for his rear-end ailment, the operation ...

Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#221 Independent researchers have found new ways that OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool can assist bad actors, from providing the code needed to hack computer d...

Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it’s searing heat, sapphire winds striking the sky like rain, or an atmosphere that makes your eyes pop out of your head, some planets are j...

Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#220 When you’re asleep, you’re completely dead to the world, right? Well, it turns out we can actually communicate with people while they’re sl...

CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Would you feel uneasy or relieved to know that free will doesn’t exist? For those who have been fortunate in life, it may feel an attack to suggest ...

Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#219 The most detailed map yet of the human brain has been unveiled. The human brain atlas visualises the brain more precisely than we’ve ever been ...

Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leah finally takes on her arch-nemesis; the two-faced, arrogant, cold-hearted… moon. And despite her lunar love, Chelsea gets roped into the destruc...

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

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#218 The 2023 Nobel Prize winners have been announced. Winners of the science prizes include two scientists who helped develop mRNA vaccines, physicis...

CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our planet has gone through a lot. If we peer into the deep history of Earth’s climate, we see ice ages, rapid warming events and mass extinctions. ...

Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#217 Antimatter is the counterpart to regular matter, but with an opposite electric charge, as well as other differences. So if it’s the opposite of...

Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are the stresses of life getting too much? Fancy a relaxing getaway to a planet with stifling sulfuric acid clouds, choking quantities of CO2 and puni...

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

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#216 For the first time ever, a team has extracted RNA from an extinct animal. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, are carnivorous marsupials that went e...

CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You’re in the volcano lair of an evil supervillain, hellbent on taking over the world. In anger, he hurls one of his minions into the molten lava bu...

Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

#215 A smart toilet with a camera inside that analyses your poop, plus a study of people who are fluent in speaking backwards – these are just two r...

Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Leah and Chelsea as they belatedly mourn the loss of Pluto as a planet. Back in 2006, Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet”, sparking widesprea...