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Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons
Season 1 Episode 266
🎧 Episode 266
⚡️ The first human blood stem cells have been created in a lab and successfully turned into functioning bone marrow. This research could…
1 year, 6 months ago
Weekly: Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes
Season 1 Episode 265
🎧 Episode 265
⚡️ The latest mpox variant has infected a record number of people in central Africa, has been found in travellers in Sweden and Thailand…
1 year, 6 months ago
CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us
Ever wondered how your teenage years shaped the person you are today? Or why certain rebellious behaviours, like underage drinking, seem almost inevi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers?
Season 1 Episode 264
#264
Some people in comas can understand what’s happening around them. Previously estimated to be 1 in 10, that figure has now shot up to 1 in 5 – mea…
1 year, 6 months ago
Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you
Season 1 Episode 263
#263
Anxiety. We’ve all felt it – some worse than others. But what exactly causes anxiety and why are some of us more likely to be hit by it? Science …
1 year, 6 months ago
CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far.
With so many new TV series and documentaries available, it can be tough to decide what's truly worth your time. That’s where our TV columnist Bethan …
1 year, 6 months ago
Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy
Season 1 Episode 262
#262
Geologists have just drilled deeper into Earth’s mantle than ever before. The hole is in an area of the ocean called Atlantis Massif, where the u…
1 year, 7 months ago
Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?
Season 2 Episode 9
Earth and all the other planets in our solar system are being dragged on a joyride through the universe, as the Dead Planeteers attempt to move the s…
1 year, 7 months ago
Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’?
Season 1 Episode 261
#261
What was the first life on Earth like? Ancient fossils hint it could be a primitive kind of bacteria – but these 3.5 billion-year-old fossilised …
1 year, 7 months ago
CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace
Quantum theory describes the tiny building blocks that make up everything around us. It has made many successful predictions but could a new, more ra…
1 year, 7 months ago