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Discovery: celibacy's surprising evolutionary advantages
Welcome to the first episode of Discovery, a new series via The Conversation Weekly where we hear the stories behind new research discoveries from ar…
3 years, 4 months ago
Radiation, pollution and urbanization are taking over natural selection
Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes that can rival the scale of changes brought on by hum…
3 years, 4 months ago
When digital nomads come to town
Digital nomads who work as they travel are often attracted by a life of freedom far removed from the daily office grind. Many head to cities that hav…
3 years, 4 months ago
Inside Brazil’s divisive gun debate
Soon after Jair Bolsonaro’s election as president of Brazil in 2018, he began making it a lot easier for people in the country to buy guns. In this e…
3 years, 5 months ago
Secretive lawsuits by fossil fuel companies could hold back climate action
A new barrier to climate action is opening up in an obscure and secretive part of international trade law which fossil fuel investors are using to su…
3 years, 5 months ago
Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor
As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – o…
3 years, 5 months ago
Thwaites Glacier: the melting, Antarctic monster of sea level rise
The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea…
3 years, 5 months ago
Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter
For thousands of years, people living in parts of the world used to high temperatures have deployed traditional passive cooling techniques in the way…
3 years, 6 months ago
The cold war double agent abandoned by the spy agencies he risked his life for
M was a double agent during the cold war, working on the side of the west. But when the Iron Curtain fell, he felt abandoned by the secret services h…
3 years, 7 months ago
What did dinosaurs actually look like?
As the latest Jurassic World Dominion film hits cinemas, we’re re-running a story originally aired in 2021 about what dinosaurs really looked liked –…
3 years, 9 months ago