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#136 A step towards building artificial life; solar-powered slugs
Season 1 Episode 136
Ribosomes are tiny protein-making factories found inside cells, and a crucial component of life. And now a team of scientists has figured out how to …
3 years, 5 months ago
#135 The Amazon passes a tipping point; a place to live only 100 light years away
Season 1 Episode 135
The Amazon rainforest may have passed the tipping point that will flip it into savannah. A new report suggests that large portions of the rainforest …
3 years, 6 months ago
#134 Artemis moon mission; decoding the dreams of mice
Season 1 Episode 134
The launch of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket didn’t go to plan this week. The team looks at the problems that stopped this long-awaited launch. And with …
3 years, 6 months ago
#133 A treatment for food allergies; predicting earthquakes
Season 1 Episode 133
There may be a way of treating, or even preventing, food allergies. A promising new trial has used a fat molecule called butyrate to treat peanut all…
3 years, 6 months ago
#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys
Season 1 Episode 132
Droughts in many parts of Europe are the worst in 500 years. Even as temperatures begin to cool and some rain begins to fall, it may be a long time t…
3 years, 6 months ago
#131 Why thinking hard tires you out; game-changing US climate bill
Season 1 Episode 131
The US is about to pass an historic piece of climate legislation. The Inflation Reduction Act allocates $370 billion to climate mitigation, and the t…
3 years, 6 months ago
#130 How to reverse death; Neil Gaiman on Sandman; AlphaFold and biology’s revolution; life in the multiverse with Laura Mersini-Houghton
Season 1 Episode 130
A new type of artificial blood has been created which, in the future, could bring people back from the dead - or what we think of now as dead, at lea…
3 years, 7 months ago
#129 BlueDot special: Mysteries of the universe; stories of hope and joy; growing tiny human brains; solving global problems
Season 1 Episode 129
Welcome to a special edition of the show recorded live at the bluedot music festival. On the panel are New Scientist journalists Rowan Hooper and Abb…
3 years, 7 months ago
#128 Extreme heatwaves; China’s space station launch; covid’s effects in pregnancy; a black hole symphony
Season 1 Episode 128
Following scolding 40 degree record temperatures, it’s clear the UK is not set up to deal with such heat. But as extreme weather events become more c…
3 years, 7 months ago
#127: Pig hearts transplanted into dead people; James Webb Space Telescope gives best-ever view of the universe; boosting wheat genetics to feed the world
Season 1 Episode 127
After the first pig-human transplant patient died just 2 months after receiving his new heart, researchers are now testing modified pig hearts by tra…
3 years, 7 months ago