Craig Venter’s Legacy: The Most Influential Geneticist Since Watson and Crick
Episode 365 Craig Venter, one of the world’s most influential geneticists, has died aged 79. He leaves behind an incredible - and complicate...
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20 of 433 episodesRecord Heat, Wildfires and Drought - The Climate Crisis Is About To Accelerate
Episode 364 Global temperatures are rising faster than ever - and with a strong El Niño on the way, scientists are warning we could temporar...
The Wood Wide Web: The Forest Discovery That Sparked a Backlash
Episode 363 Suzanne Simard is a world-renowned forest ecologist who shot to stardom with her first book Finding the Mother Tree. It tells th...
Chernobyl 40 Years On: Legacy of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster
Episode 362 It’s been 40 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded. Since the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986, the world has fe...
A “Super El Niño” Is Coming - And It Could Trigger Global Climate Chaos
Episode 361 The Earth is about to enter an extremely strong climate phase that could cause major disruption on a planet-wide scale. This “su...
Britain’s First Astronaut on the New Race to the Moon | Helen Sharman
Episode 360 A new era of space travel is finally upon us. NASA’s Artemis II rocket successfully launched 4 astronauts around the moon and ba...
How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower: New Scientist's stargazing companion
The Lyrid meteor shower hits its peak on the evening of the 22nd April, but you can look for them any time between the 16th and 25th. Listen...
Genetic analysis reveals how the Neanderthals went extinct
Episode 359 DNA analysis of 10 Neanderthal people is shedding light on why their populations declined 75,000 years ago - eventually leading...
The Male G-Spot Has Finally Been Found
Episode 358 The male G-spot exists - and scientists have found it. The most comprehensive study of the human penis has identified one specif...
Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad
Episode 357 A global food shock is on the way because of the ongoing war in Iran. Your food bill is expected to rise significantly. The conf...
World’s First Antimatter Truck Carries Most Valuable And Volatile Substance on Earth
Episode 356 A truck carrying antimatter has been driving around the campus at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider. But why are scientist...
Scientists Can Now Preserve a Brain After Death - What’s Next?
Episode 355 An entire pig’s brain has been preserved after death, using a technique that will keep the structure of the brain intact - poten...
The Dangerous Bias Shaping the Future of AI
Episode 354 Women are being erased from AI technologies. When world-changing technology is built primarily by men, the impact for women is h...
Rebecca Solnit On Why the Future Isn’t as Dark as It Looks
Episode 353 The world might feel dark right now, but life is actually getting better, rapidly. From the rise of feminism and antiracism to e...
Why The Iran War Is Speeding The End Of The Fossil Fuel Era
Episode 352 Notwithstanding President Trump’s efforts to slow the growth of renewable energy, the US/Israeli attack on Iran has given the gr...
Mathematics is Undergoing the Biggest Change in its History
Episode 351 Artificial intelligence is starting to solve mathematical theorems better than humans. Mathematicians say AI is now an existenti...
The Radical Theory That Could Force Us To Rethink Alzheimer’s
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 t...
We Now Have Early Warning Signal Of Ocean Current Collapse
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 no...
Two 'Extinct' Mammals Species Have Been Discovered in New Guinea
Episode 348 Thought extinct for 6,000 years, two marsupial species have been discovered alive in New Guinea. Biologists have found a new gen...
How Ukraine Became a Drone Factory - and Changed Warfare Forever
Episode 347 Drones have taken over the battlefield in Russia’s war on Ukraine. Tens of thousands of drones are being produced every day - op...
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