Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#126: Are we stuck in a time loop? Legal action against climate change; covid fifth wave; time loop are we stuck?
Season 1 Episode 126
Ten years since the discovery of the fabled Higgs boson, can the Large Hadron Collider ever make us that excited again? Physicists are now kind of bo…
3 years, 8 months ago
#125: Poo transplants cure IBS; climate change shrinks the human niche; CRISPR babies; monkeypox latest
Season 1 Episode 125
The world’s first CRISPR babies are now toddlers. Now, nearly four years since the super-controversial experiment was announced, scientists in China …
3 years, 8 months ago
#124: Lopsided universe; solar activity affects heart health; hero rats trained for rescue missions
Season 1 Episode 124
If you like things orderly, we have bad news for you - our universe is lopsided. Based on everything we know about gravity and the early universe, we…
3 years, 8 months ago
#123: ‘Sentient’ claim for Google AI; spacecraft spots starquakes; the rise of the mammals; hot brains
Season 1 Episode 123
How will we know when we’ve made a truly sentient artificial intelligence? Well, one Google engineer believes we’re already there. The team discusses…
3 years, 8 months ago
#122: The science of Top Gun; the 1.5°C climate goal is out of reach; return to the moon; hepatitis mystery
Season 1 Episode 122
While it may be technically possible to keep global heating to 1.5°C it’s really not very likely - at all. So why are we clinging to it? The team ask…
3 years, 9 months ago
#121: Creation of artificial life; gene therapy saves children’s lives; new understanding of chronic pain
Season 1 Episode 121
Synthetic cell membranes have been fused with protein machinery from living cells to create an artificial membrane. Could this be a precursor to the …
3 years, 9 months ago
#120: DeepMind claims artificial intelligence breakthrough; searching for ancient life on Mars; Stonehenge surprise; monkeypox latest
Season 1 Episode 120
DeepMind’s new artificial intelligence, Gato, is a step beyond anything we’ve seen before. But how close has it brought us to the coveted goal of cre…
3 years, 9 months ago
#119: How to tackle the global food crisis; rainforest animal orchestra; George Monbiot on humanity’s biggest blight
Season 1 Episode 119
We’re in the middle of a global food crisis, brought on by a combination of the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and the war in Ukraine. As food …
3 years, 9 months ago
#118: Heatwaves push limits of human tolerance; chemical computer to mimic brain; first non-human to practice medicine
Season 1 Episode 118
It feels like temperature records are being broken almost daily. We’ve seen heatwaves already this year in Texas and Mexico, with forecast highs of 5…
3 years, 9 months ago
#117: US threat to women’s health; saving the world with bacteria; Darwinian feminism and primate gender; invasion of the earthworms
Season 1 Episode 117
Women’s abortion rights are under threat in the US. Leaked documents suggest the Supreme Court is on the verge of overturning the landmark Roe v Wade…
3 years, 10 months ago