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CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts
Did you know we have King Louis XIV to thank for fistula surgeries? After surgeons worked hard to find a cure for his rear-end ailment, the operation…
2 years, 4 months ago
Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer
Season 1 Episode 221
#221
Independent researchers have found new ways that OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool can assist bad actors, from providing the code needed to hack computer dat…
2 years, 4 months ago
Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds
Season 1 Episode 8
Whether it’s searing heat, sapphire winds striking the sky like rain, or an atmosphere that makes your eyes pop out of your head, some planets are ju…
2 years, 4 months ago
Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator
Season 1 Episode 220
#220
When you’re asleep, you’re completely dead to the world, right? Well, it turns out we can actually communicate with people while they’re sleeping…
2 years, 4 months ago
CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society
Would you feel uneasy or relieved to know that free will doesn’t exist? For those who have been fortunate in life, it may feel an attack to suggest t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?
Season 1 Episode 219
#219
The most detailed map yet of the human brain has been unveiled. The human brain atlas visualises the brain more precisely than we’ve ever been ab…
2 years, 4 months ago
Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon
Leah finally takes on her arch-nemesis; the two-faced, arrogant, cold-hearted… moon. And despite her lunar love, Chelsea gets roped into the destruct…
2 years, 5 months ago
Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles
Season 1 Episode 218
#218
The 2023 Nobel Prize winners have been announced. Winners of the science prizes include two scientists who helped develop mRNA vaccines, physicis…
2 years, 5 months ago
CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history
Our planet has gone through a lot. If we peer into the deep history of Earth’s climate, we see ice ages, rapid warming events and mass extinctions. A…
2 years, 5 months ago
Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?
Season 1 Episode 217
#217
Antimatter is the counterpart to regular matter, but with an opposite electric charge, as well as other differences. So if it’s the opposite of n…
2 years, 5 months ago