Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action; Why birds sing the dawn chorus
Episode 328
Not only has the mRNA covid vaccine saved 14 million lives, it may also help our bodies fight off cancer. A study of cancer patients unde…
4 months, 1 week ago
Neuroscience of reality; Quest for dark matter; Folklore of geoscience (New Scientist Live Special)
Episode 327
A special episode recorded on October 18 at New Scientist Live in London, featuring experts in geoscience, dark matter and neuroscience.
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First climate tipping point triggered; Man controls another person's body by brain implant; health worries over sumo wrestlers
Episode 326
The world’s first major climate tipping point has been triggered. The decimation of warm water coral populations caused by rising tempera…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Space 2075: How Humanity Will Live, Work and Make Drugs off-planet | Live Recording at the Royal Society
A special episode all about the future of space exploration, recorded in front of a live audience at the Royal Society in London.
Earlier this year, …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How Jane Goodall changed the world; How the universe ends; How “selfish sperm” affect male fertility
Episode 324
The legendary primatologist Jane Goodall died last week aged 91, leaving behind a remarkable legacy. Her work studying tool use in chimpa…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Emergency in Antarctica; How movement changes the brain; Why women live longer than men
Episode 323
Temperatures in Antarctica have soared by over 35°C. Scientists are concerned about how quickly things are changing on the continent as t…
5 months ago
Skull rewrites story of human evolution; Autism and Tylenol; discovery of wind coming from black hole
Episode 322
An ancient skull discovered in China may have just rewritten the story of human evolution. It’s widely accepted that the common ancestor …
5 months, 1 week ago
The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives; the asteroid coming VERY close to Earth; how dinosaurs shaped the ecosystem
Episode 321
Humans live a lot longer than other primates - and much of that is down to our immune system. But there’s a price we pay for the capacity…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British economy; Link between exercise and your microbiome
Episode 320
Was Mars once home to alien life? The evidence is stronger than ever, since NASA’s discovery of rocks marked by patterns similar to those…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet
Episode 319
Scientists have created the first complete activity map of a mouse’s brain. Combining brain images from multiple mice, researchers record…
6 months ago