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#156: What you need to know in science and culture for 2023
Season 1 Episode 156
To see in the New Year, host Rowan Hooper and the team look ahead to their science and cultural highlights for the coming months.
We start with 2 big …
3 years, 2 months ago
#155: Our five favourite New Scientist long-reads from 2022
Season 1 Episode 155
A holiday special of the podcast and a free-gift giveaway this week, as we celebrate five of New Scientist’s best front-page features of 2022. As wel…
3 years, 2 months ago
#154: News review 2022 - stand-out moments and funniest stories
Season 1 Episode 154
Recorded live online for New Scientist subscribers, in this holiday special the team takes you through their stand out moments of the year, the funni…
3 years, 2 months ago
#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate change
Season 1 Episode 153
There’s been an exciting breakthrough in nuclear fusion. For the first time on Earth, a controlled fusion reaction has generated more power than it r…
3 years, 2 months ago
#152 Ancient species of human could control fire; complete brain map of fly
Season 1 Episode 152
An extinct species of ancient human may have been much more advanced than we first realised. First discovered 10 years ago, Homo neladi had a brain a…
3 years, 3 months ago
#151 COP15: the meeting to save life on Earth; anti-ageing properties of urine
Season 1 Episode 151
Following repeated delays, the COP15 biodiversity conference is finally going ahead. On December 7th representatives from most of the countries in th…
3 years, 3 months ago
#150 Megadrought in the US; how to move an elephant
Season 1 Episode 150
The southwestern US is currently in the midst of a megadrought - the worst in 1200 years. And it has put the Colorado River in crisis, an essential s…
3 years, 3 months ago
#149 COP27 treaty emerges; a method to discover wormholes
Season 1 Episode 149
Cheering greeted Brazil’s president-elect, Lula da Silva, when he appeared at COP27 this week. Madeleine Cuff brings us a report from the climate con…
3 years, 3 months ago
#148 Climate action from COP27; world population reaches 8 billion
Season 1 Episode 148
Warnings over the world’s mad dash to create new supplies of fossil fuels, discussions about climate loss and damage, and talk about nature-based sol…
3 years, 3 months ago
#147 The oldest yew trees in Europe – and how to save them
Season 1 Episode 147
In a special episode of the podcast, host Rowan Hooper visits Newlands Corner in the North Downs in southern England, the site of one of the oldest a…
3 years, 4 months ago