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The World, the Universe and Us
New Scientist
From the evolution of intelligent life, to the mysteries of consciousness; from the threat of the climate crisis to the search for dark matter, The world, the universe and us is your essential weekly dose of science and wonder in an uncertain world. Hosted by journalists Dr Rowan Hooper and Dr Penny Sarchet and joined…
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74%Latitude Special: Why Festivals Make You Live Longer; Clearing Alzheimer’s Proteins from the Brain;Clouds Made of Rocks and Rubies; Orcas Blow Up Giant Fish
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68%Climate 2026: Record Heat, Tens of Thousands Dead, Mass Evacuations
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58%Scientists Pioneer Surgical Methods for Human Head and Eye Transplants
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67%The Most Promising Alien Planet We've Ever Found?
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64%Climate Crisis Is Triggering Global Food Shortages - New Predictions Are Devastating
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69%7 Essential Lessons We Can Learn From Homer’s Odyssey
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59%Chris Packham on the Untold Story of Evolution
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75%Heatwaves Are Getting Deadlier - And It’s Going To Get Worse
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66%Breakthrough Synthetic Cell Has Just Reproduced - But Is It Alive?
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71%The Science of Football: Inside the 2026 World Cup
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78%Ancient Human DNA Found in Stone Age Cave Art For First Time
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70%A “Super” El Niño May Be Coming - Here’s What It Means
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68%The Lost Solstice Monument That Predates Stonehenge By 500 Years
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62%If We Can Make Genetically Engineered Designer Babies - Should We?
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63%Scientists Mapped Earth's Vast Fungal Network - And It's Critical For The Climate
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70%Millions of Fossil Whale Bones Found in Deep Ocean Graveyard
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61%DeepMind Is Simulating Entire Worlds - Ready for AI Robots
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63%Ötzi the Ice Man Contains Still-Living Microbes
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67%The Thwaites 'Doomsday' glacier's ice shelf is about to break away
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64%Some Scientists Want To Resurrect Extinct Species – Is It Even Possible?
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58%The Hidden Methane Time Bomb That Could Accelerate The Climate Crisis
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64%Science Reveals Neanderthals Had Dentists 60,000 Years Ago
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64%Scientists Concerned By a Sudden Increase in the Rate of Sea Level Rise
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61%The Strange Case Of The Man Immune To Alzheimer’s
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70%Astronomers Stunned by a Tiny World With an Atmosphere
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66%Craig Venter’s Legacy: The Most Influential Geneticist Since Watson and Crick
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72%Record Heat, Wildfires and Drought - The Climate Crisis Is About To Accelerate
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74%The Wood Wide Web: The Forest Discovery That Sparked a Backlash
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72%Chernobyl 40 Years On: Legacy of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster
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67%A “Super El Niño” Is Coming - And It Could Trigger Global Climate Chaos
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62%Britain’s First Astronaut on the New Race to the Moon | Helen Sharman
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68%How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower: New Scientist's stargazing companion
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58%Genetic analysis reveals how the Neanderthals went extinct
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66%The Male G-Spot Has Finally Been Found
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71%Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad
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76%World’s First Antimatter Truck Carries Most Valuable And Volatile Substance on Earth
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70%Scientists Can Now Preserve a Brain After Death - What’s Next?
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57%The Dangerous Bias Shaping the Future of AI
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57%Rebecca Solnit On Why the Future Isn’t as Dark as It Looks
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61%Why The Iran War Is Speeding The End Of The Fossil Fuel Era
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71%Mathematics is Undergoing the Biggest Change in its History
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57%The Radical Theory That Could Force Us To Rethink Alzheimer’s
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61%We Now Have Early Warning Signal Of Ocean Current Collapse
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62%Two 'Extinct' Mammals Species Have Been Discovered in New Guinea
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60%How Ukraine Became a Drone Factory - and Changed Warfare Forever
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67%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?
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70%How ancient humans crossed the vast ocean; Brain training for dementia; Life of science legend Maggie Aderin
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71%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
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65%Mini human brain grows blood vessels; The geoengineering risk of termination shock; Trove of ancient fossils discovered
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65%The 5 worst ideas of the 21st century – and how they went wrong
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70%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
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58%Why does America want Greenland?; Mystery of dark DNA; Ozempic weight rebound
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74%Humans are finally heading back to the moon; Cheaper weight loss drugs are coming; Milestone for LSD trials; Promise of new carbon tax
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69%Best science TV, film and books of 2025 | The New Scientist culture review
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64%Top Science Stories of 2025 | The New Scientist Features Special
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73%Orcas and dolphins are now hunting together; Genetic root of psychiatric conditions; Black hole stars and cosmic ecology
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63%How exercise shrinks tumours and starves cancer; Weird molecules found on comet 3I/ATLAS; Einstein v Bohr on the nature of light
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66%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
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67%The origin and evolution of music: Steve Pretty plays the conch
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70%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!
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75%Why the claims about Hitler’s genome are misleading
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66%COP30: The world's climate future hinges on this meeting
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72%The collapse of America’s health data system; How sleep affects your focus; Life on Mars in liquid veins?
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71%How mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action; Why birds sing the dawn chorus
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71%Neuroscience of reality; Quest for dark matter; Folklore of geoscience (New Scientist Live Special)
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68%First climate tipping point triggered; Man controls another person's body by brain implant; health worries over sumo wrestlers
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68%Space 2075: How Humanity Will Live, Work and Make Drugs off-planet | Live Recording at the Royal Society
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67%How Jane Goodall changed the world; How the universe ends; How “selfish sperm” affect male fertility
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62%Emergency in Antarctica; How movement changes the brain; Why women live longer than men
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68%Skull rewrites story of human evolution; Autism and Tylenol; discovery of wind coming from black hole
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76%The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives; the asteroid coming VERY close to Earth; how dinosaurs shaped the ecosystem
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64%Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British economy; Link between exercise and your microbiome
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59%First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet
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59%Scientists discovered a 100,000-year-old organism; Breakthrough brain implant uses AI to treat pain; How climate change leads to revolutions
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73%Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome of chocolate
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65%Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel
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68%80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb
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57%Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium; geology of the Russian earthquake
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76%AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep; Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too
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66%Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; New theory why we’ve not found aliens
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74%How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathematics?; Why exercise reduces cancer risk
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65%First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation
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62%Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid
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57%First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen
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64%Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live
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69%$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm
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75%The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth
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65%Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees
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68%China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system
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59%Ocean wonders and the new arguments against deep-sea mining; biophotons emitted from living things; drumming chimps and the origin of religion
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67%Is our understanding of light completely wrong? Two consciousness theories go head-to-head; decoding dolphin whistles
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68%Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality
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70%Weekly: First brain engineering in a mammal; landmark in fossil fuel lawsuits, the legacy of Pope Francis
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62%Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet?
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76%Weekly: Dire wolves (not) brought back from extinction; US science in existential crisis; how to pour the perfect coffee
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59%Weekly: How plant skin transplants could supercharge crops; China’s pollution win spikes global temperatures; the oldest ivory tools ever found
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70%Weekly: A remarkable view of pregnancy; how to waste less time on your smartphone; superacid diamond rain
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71%Weekly: Life on Mars; biggest dark energy discovery in decades; the mystery of dark oxygen
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72%Weekly: America is turning its back on science and the cosmos; photosynthesis limits; mysterious memory illusion
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60%Weekly: Chimps, bonobos and humans have more in common than you might think
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64%Weekly: How to finally get a good night’s sleep - with science
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64%Weekly: Life-saving mice perform first aid; tiny lab-grown human brains; making skyscrapers and hair condition from wood
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68%Weekly: Resurrecting frozen brains; giant asteroid heads to Earth; you really do have a ‘dessert stomach’
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58%Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science
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75%Weekly: Is DeepSeek really the ChatGPT killer?; alarming scale of ocean warming; dolphin peeing contests
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73%Weekly: The Trump impact on climate and global health; the placebo effect’s evil twin; the mystery of dark oxygen
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68%Weekly: The truth about Iron Age women; Climate whiplash and the LA wildfires; Rebooting the world’s first chatbot
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66%Weekly: Gene-editing to make superhumans; first bird flu death in the US; perfect pasta with physics
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63%Weekly: All You Need To Know For Science in 2025
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61%Weekly: The Best of New Scientist in 2024: From Volcanic Diamonds to Immortal Brains
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76%Weekly: Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum
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65%Weekly: Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young
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74%Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024
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61%Weekly: Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books
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61%Weekly: Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age
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72%Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?
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67%Weekly: The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree
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72%Weekly: Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria
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61%Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well
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72%Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction
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65%Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back
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73%The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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72%Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war
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65%Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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67%Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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71%Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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71%A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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59%Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
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67%Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese
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64%Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes
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63%Weekly: Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk
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60%CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater
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64%Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons
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66%Weekly: Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes
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68%CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us
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60%Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers?
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56%Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you
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69%CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far.
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59%Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy
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68%Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?
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63%Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’?
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76%CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace
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73%Weekly: Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides
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72%Dead Planets Society: Can We Burn Uranus?
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69%Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs
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66%CultureLab: The incredible, intelligent abilities of plants with Zoë Schlanger
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61%Weekly: Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming
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66%Dead Planets Society: Putting Black Holes Inside Stuff
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55%Weekly: World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic
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75%CultureLab: Sonifying Mars, symphonically, with David Ibbett
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77%Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox
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62%Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism
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63%Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon
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72%CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool
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64%Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report
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65%Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?
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65%Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely
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61%CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger
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61%Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?
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70%Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet
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71%Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour
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65%CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction
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65%Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids
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78%Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms
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69%Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak
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57%CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change
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64%Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ
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61%Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse
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70%Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants
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69%CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence
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68%Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?
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67%Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole
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71%Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms
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69%CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation
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62%Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure
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61%Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet
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65%Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous
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72%CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign
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59%Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics
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66%Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer
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66%Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis
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63%CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are
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60%Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture
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64%Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological
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72%Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing
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69%CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind
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68%Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage
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73%Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes
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65%Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages
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78%CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’
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59%Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy
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65%Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos
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73%Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs
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63%CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’
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60%Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time
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67%Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets
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65%Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object
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59%CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch
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64%Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork
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62%Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical
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60%Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe
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62%Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins
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64%Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes
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68%CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads
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70%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
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69%CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions
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68%Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future
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76%Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe
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72%CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback
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69%Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high
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63%Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
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64%CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
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65%Weekly: Biggest climate summit since Paris; thanking dirt for all life on Earth; what if another star flew past our solar system?
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67%Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift
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60%Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth
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58%Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two
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63%Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One
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59%Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)
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73%CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey
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64%Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy
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60%Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt
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59%Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads
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76%CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts
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70%Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer
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72%Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds
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59%Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator
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58%CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society
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63%Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?
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64%Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon
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57%Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles
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70%CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history
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68%Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?
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72%Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again
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71%Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn
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65%CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions
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70%Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos
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68%Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto
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69%Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age
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70%CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World
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64%Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume
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62%Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong
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61%Weekly: India lands on the moon; Placenta cells could heal the heart; Mind-altering drugs and binge drinking on the rise
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62%CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023
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60%Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy
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63%Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse
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69%CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
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69%Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet
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66%CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”
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64%Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun
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66%Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize
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64%CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet
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75%Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing
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66%Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins
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59%Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies.
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64%Weekly: Claims that secret alien technology is held in the US; link between gut bacteria and intelligence; the parasite that makes ants live longer
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73%#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions
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61%#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter
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70%#197 Ancient human Homo naledi had advanced culture; AI passes the world’s biggest Turing Test; climate change hits New York
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67%#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically
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72%#195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat
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66%#194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate
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74%#193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink
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66%#192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death
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65%#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science
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75%#190 Problems for lab-grown meat; do we need vitamin D supplements?; waking the sleeping Arctic ocean; fish sing for Eurovision
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62%#189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors
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66%#188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut
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59%#187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben
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75%#186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA
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67%#185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans
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57%#184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health
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74%#183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism?
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61%#182 3D-printing inside living organisms; what ChatGPT means for human intelligence; why insects fly towards light; carbon storage in the oceans
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70%#181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter
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74%#180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō
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75%#179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth
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66%#178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023
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77%#177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard
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65%#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background
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58%#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold
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55%#174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science
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58%#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health
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72%#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
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62%#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas
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65%#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers
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65%#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic
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68%#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science
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73%#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease?
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66%#165 Water dowsing to detect leaks; Astroforge going asteroid mining; AI discovers new bacteria-killing proteins – the latest news in science
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71%#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse
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78%#162 How to trigger positive tipping points to tackle climate change
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63%#161 What they don’t tell you about the climate crisis with Assaad Razzouk
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65%#160 Rejuvenation treatments; world to breach 1.5 degrees of global heating
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64%#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia
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