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#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background
Season 1 Episode 176
Brainoids - tiny clumps of human brain cells - are being turned into living artificial intelligence machines, capable of carrying out tasks like solv…
2 years, 11 months ago
#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold
Season 1 Episode 175
Whether it’s on the Moon, Mars or somewhere even more distant, we may see human settlements in space in our lifetime. But when we do, will we be prep…
2 years, 11 months ago
#174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science
Season 1 Episode 174
Matter we’ve long thought missing from galaxies has finally been found. Great news…except there’s one catch. It turns out that perhaps this matter sh…
3 years ago
#173 Understanding chronic health conditions; Artificial sweetener linked to heart attacks; Re-thinking galaxies; UN geoengineering report
Season 1 Episode 173
As millions of people around the world suffer from long covid, research into how viruses trigger chronic health conditions is getting a lot more focu…
3 years ago
#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health
Season 1 Episode 172
On this bonus episode of the podcast, host Rowan Hooper sits down with New Scientist magazine editor Cat de Lange, and science journalist Sally Adee …
3 years ago
#171 Earth’s mysterious “dark biome” and the search for life on Mars; Quantum computers; Judge Dredd predicts the future - the latest news in science
Season 1 Episode 171
While testing samples in the Atacama desert, a region of Earth with very similar rocks to those on Mars, astrobiologists have discovered a mysterious…
3 years ago
#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas
Season 1 Episode 170
Venice, Italy, is often voted the world’s most beautiful city. Built across 120 small islands in a shallow lagoon, it’s been an important financial a…
3 years ago
#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers
Season 1 Episode 169
The UK’s rivers are in a dire state. Full of sewage, chemicals and prescription drugs, life in our rivers is suffering. New Scientist has teamed up w…
3 years ago
#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic
Season 1 Episode 168
Hear the chattering sounds of a narwhal, the surprisingly tuneful tones of singing sea ice, and the alarming crashes of ice shelves collapsing in thi…
3 years ago
#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science
Season 1 Episode 167
The continuing avian flu epidemic is devastating bird populations. And now there are concerns over increasing numbers of mammals becoming infected. A…
3 years, 1 month ago