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Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon
Season 1 Episode 255
#255
Why do some people seem to be naturally immune to covid-19? We may finally have the answer and it’s to do with differences in the way immune cell…
1 year, 8 months ago
CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool
We like to think of science and medicine as unbiased, unaffected by social constructs. But we see evidence to the contrary everyday, from false yet p…
1 year, 8 months ago
Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report
Season 1 Episode 254
We know elephants are smart, but it seems we’ve only scratched the surface in understanding their intelligence. It turns out African elephants seem t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?
Season 2 Episode 5
For the Dead Planeteers, one moon around Earth isn’t enough. They want to pack as many moons into the night sky as possible. But how many can you fit…
1 year, 8 months ago
Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely
Season 1 Episode 253
#253
The moon may hold the answer to a decades-long physics conundrum – all we need to do is drill several kilometres into its surface. For years, phy…
1 year, 9 months ago
CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger
If (or maybe when) we find alien life in the universe, will it look like us? As telescopes become bigger, our ability to peer into the cosmos is only…
1 year, 9 months ago
Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?
Season 1 Episode 252
#252
It is not wise to stick cheese on your pizza with glue, even if Google tells you to do it. This is just one recommendation in a string of blunder…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet
Season 2 Episode 4
When you bring a giant magnet to Mars, apocalyptic eruptions are just the beginning. In an attempt to suck out all of the iron from the red planet, L…
1 year, 9 months ago
Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour
Season 1 Episode 251
#251
Hurricane season in the Atlantic ocean is set to be extremely active, according to forecasts. Expect to see as many as 25 named tropical storms, …
1 year, 9 months ago
CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction
From Dune to The Three Body Problem, is science fiction having a moment? Attention to the genre, as well as TV and films based on it, seems to have e…
1 year, 9 months ago