Podcast Episodes

Are Palestinians being censored by social media?

For 11 days rockets rained down on Gaza in the latest escalation of a conflict that has gone on for nearly three quarters of a century. More than 250…

5 years, 4 months ago

What sparked the latest Gaza-Israel war?

What started with a court hearing over the ownership of land on the outskirts of Jerusalem’s Old City has escalated into the bloodiest round of fight…

5 years, 4 months ago

What Mars missions mean for humanity

On April 19, Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter lifted off from the surface of Mars in a history-making first flight.

The small, drone-like rotorcraft, whi…

5 years, 5 months ago

How Covid-19 mRNA research could cure HIV and cancer

Within months of the emergence of coronavirus in late 2019 drug companies around the world were racing for a vaccine. Within a year, shots were being…

5 years, 5 months ago

How did India's Covid crisis become so bad?

India hit what it thought was its peak of Covid-19 infections in September 2020 when the pandemic then started to ease. But the country now has the w…

5 years, 5 months ago

Can desalination quench the world’s water worries?

Season 1 Episode 12

Desalination used to be the preserve of money-rich but water-poor Middle Eastern countries. It was expensive and caused pollution but in the arid des…

5 years, 5 months ago

How Abu Dhabi’s Hope Consortium is helping to vaccinate the world

On December 31, 2020, one year after coronavirus was first detected, the World Health Organisation gave the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine emergency validat…

5 years, 5 months ago

Is the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine safe?

The AstraZeneca vaccine was heralded as ‘the vaccine for the world’ when it was first approved for use in the UK on December 30. It is inexpensive an…

5 years, 6 months ago

Stuck in the Suez Canal

For nearly a week, the ultra-large Ever Given container ship was wedged across the Suez Canal, stopping dead all trade through one of the world’s mos…

5 years, 6 months ago

Is corruption in Iraq impossible to beat?

Iraq is listed as the 20th most corrupt country in the world in the latest ranking by anti-corruption organisation Transparency International. Venali…

5 years, 6 months ago