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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, 7 months 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, 7 months ago
Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs
Season 1 Episode 235
#235
In very rare cases, Alzheimer’s disease could be transmitted from person to person during medical procedures. This finding comes as five people h…
2 years, 7 months ago
CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’
Very few places on our planet appear untouchedby humans, but in those that do, nature is still very much in charge – and the scenery is breathtaking.…
2 years, 7 months ago
Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time
Season 1 Episode 234
#234
Is AI really ready to take our jobs? A team looked at whether AI image recognition could replace tasks like checking price tags on items or looki…
2 years, 7 months ago
Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets
Season 1 Episode 3
This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.
This episode is all about music, so today’s journey of escapism comes complete …
2 years, 8 months ago
Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object
Season 1 Episode 233
#233
A cloned rhesus monkey named ReTro is said to be in good health more than three years after his birth – a landmark achievement, as no other rhesu…
2 years, 8 months ago
CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch
NASA astronaut Christina Koch not only took part in the first ever all-female spacewalks, but she also holds the record for the longest single spacef…
2 years, 8 months ago
Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork
Season 1 Episode 232
#232
During pregnancy the brain undergoes profound changes – almost every part of the cortex thins out and loses volume by the third trimester. It’s s…
2 years, 8 months ago
Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical
Season 1 Episode 2
This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in January 2021.
The theme of this episode is alliances - human, biological and atomic. We start …
2 years, 8 months ago