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Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture
Season 1 Episode 240
#240
A major step has been made toward bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction – sort of. The company Colossal has the ambitious goal of bringin…
2 years ago
Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological
This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.
Keeping you cosy this week is an episode all about warmth - emotional, physiolo…
2 years ago
Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing
Season 1 Episode 239
#239
Two decades ago, following the Human Genome Project’s release of a first draft in 2001, genetic testing was set to revolutionise healthcare. “Per…
2 years ago
CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind
Freezing temperatures, dust storms, radiation, marsquakes – living on Mars right now would be hellish. And getting there remains a multi-year journey…
2 years ago
Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage
Season 1 Episode 238
#238
ADHD is a condition that affects millions of people and is marked by impulsivity, restlessness and attention difficulties. But how did ADHD evolv…
2 years ago
Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes
This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.
Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed all in the space of 20 minutes. This…
2 years ago
Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages
Season 1 Episode 237
#237
Glaucoma, which can cause blindness by damaging the optic nerve, may be reversible. Researchers have managed to coax new optic nerve cells to gro…
2 years ago
CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’
Real tech billionaires are reportedly building secret bunkers in case of post-apocalyptic societal collapse. It’s a frightening prospect, a world whe…
2 years ago
Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy
Season 1 Episode 236
#236
This week marks two major milestones in the world of fusion. In 2022 a fusion experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created mo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos
Season 1 Episode 4
This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.
From some of the lightest creatures on earth, to the heaviest things in the cos…
2 years, 1 month ago