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Weekly: Biggest climate summit since Paris; thanking dirt for all life on Earth; what if another star flew past our solar system?
Season 1 Episode 226
#226
This year’s COP28 could be the most important climate summit since the Paris Agreement in 2015. After opening in Dubai on Thursday, this will be …
2 years, 3 months ago
Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift
Season 1 Episode 1
Cannabis is having a moment. Half of the US population lives in a state where marijuana is legal, and 9 in 10 people nationwide support legalisation …
2 years, 3 months ago
Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth
Season 1 Episode 225
#225
Life on Mercury? That would be a shocking discovery. The planet is incredibly inhospitable to life… as we know it. But the discovery of salt glac…
2 years, 3 months ago
Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two
Season 1 Episode 11
Turning the Earth into a cube, the gift that just keeps giving. Last episode we had fish bowl spaceships, this time we have sea monsters!
If you thoug…
2 years, 3 months ago
Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One
Season 1 Episode 10
This is it, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. We’ve killed the sun, smushed the asteroid belt, burrowed into other planets… but now it’s time fo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)
Season 1 Episode 224
#224
Tree planting has become an incredibly popular way of attempting to store carbon dioxide and slow global warming. But new research estimates we m…
2 years, 3 months ago
CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey
As astronauts look down on Earth from space, the experience is often life-altering. The “pale blue dot” looks fragile from way up there. And in the n…
2 years, 3 months ago
Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy
Season 1 Episode 223
#223
Spinal cord stimulation has, for the first time, been used to improve the mobility of someone with Parkinson’s Disease. Marc, who has battled the…
2 years, 4 months ago
Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt
Season 1 Episode 9
Asteroids are cool, but they’re all spread out across the solar system. Wouldn’t it be neater if we could smush them all together to make one MEGA as…
2 years, 4 months ago
Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads
Season 1 Episode 222
#222
At this point, most people have heard the accepted wisdom that you need 8 hours sleep every night, especially for a healthy brain. But what if we…
2 years, 4 months ago