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Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back
Season 1 Episode 271
Episode 271
If we overshoot 1.5 degrees of global warming, there is no going back. The hope has long been that if - and when - we blow past our climat…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
The great auk was a flightless bird which was last spotted in Iceland in 1844. It is the subject of the book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the…
1 year, 11 months ago
Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war
Season 1 Episode 270
Episode 270
There may be hope for the survival of coral reefs, a vital part of the global underwater ecosystem that is under massive threat from clima…
1 year, 11 months ago
Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World is a book about an 18th century mathematical rule for working out probabi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Women have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to have more sensitive noses, sharper hearing at high frequencies, and longer life expectancy …
1 year, 11 months ago
Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Why We Die is a book about ageing and death, written by Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former president of the Royal Society, Venki Ramakrishnan.
V…
1 year, 11 months ago
A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
As the heated race to settle humans on Mars continues, is it really a good idea? And what are the biggest challenges to making interplanetary life a …
1 year, 11 months ago
Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
How often do you upload a picture of yourself online? And what happens to that photo long after it's been posted? The truth may shock you, as we find…
1 year, 11 months ago
Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese
Season 1 Episode 269
Episode 269
Could we re-freeze the Arctic… and should we? The Arctic is losing ice at an alarming rate and it’s too late to save it by cutting emissio…
1 year, 11 months ago
Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes
Season 1 Episode 268
Episode 268
Research has long linked loneliness to surprising health conditions, including diabetes and some cancers. The assumption has been that lon…
1 year, 11 months ago