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Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
Season 1 Episode 227
#227
Quantum computing researchers at IBM have stepped up the power of their devices by a huge amount. The company’s new device Condor has more than d…
2 years, 9 months ago
CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
Did your chemistry lessons involve baking chocolate lava cakes? Have you ever wanted to eat your biology homework? While ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ broug…
2 years, 9 months ago
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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago