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How personalised nutrition is transforming our understanding of diet and health
Season 1 Episode 395
Over the past several decades nutritional advice from doctors and expert researchers has largely relied on one-size-fits-all approach – eat five port…
7 months ago
What we all need to know about menopause
Season 1 Episode 394
Throughout our lives we all go through several significant periods of change – puberty, young adulthood, middle age, retirement. Each comes with its …
7 months, 1 week ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on what AI and Elon Musk mean for the site's future
Season 1 Episode 393
Wikipedia. It needs almost no introduction. Few websites are more well-known, more commonly used and more foundational to the web as we know it than …
7 months, 1 week ago
How psychedelics could kickstart the next mental health revolution
Season 1 Episode 392
Hippies, the Beatles, flower power, magic mushrooms, raves and festivals – that’s what most of us associate with psychedelics. But there is mounting …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't miss the upcoming Future of Food miniseries!
What will we all be eating in 2050? How will it be produced? And how can our diets keep us healthier for longer? If these are questions you'd like an…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
How our bodies are host to mysterious cells that came from other people
Season 1 Episode 391
The commonly held story goes that we all begin life as a single cell in our mother’s womb and go on from there to develop into fully formed adult hum…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
How human consciousness emerged from the fundamental processes of nature
Season 1 Episode 390
Thanks to hundreds of years of scientific progress we now know, that like every other living thing on Earth, human beings are simply assemblages of a…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The hunt for the first stars in the Universe
Season 1 Episode 389
Stars feel like a fundamental feature of the Universe – as essential as planets, galaxies and space itself. But since we know the Universe had a begi…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The weird and wonderful science behind why humans are different
Season 1 Episode 388
Humanity is beautifully diverse. Some of that diversity is visible, but hidden beneath the surface, there is also a hidden web of genetic variation t…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The key role psychologists can play in the fight against ecological crime
Season 1 Episode 387
Chances are that when most of us think about the notion of crime our minds turn to acts committed against an individual – be it theft, fraud or even …
8 months ago