Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#36: Hunt for life on Venus and Mars; how the paleo diet affects your age; strategy for the second wave of coronavirus; species extinction crisis
Season 1 Episode 36
Hopes of discovering life on Venus have been dampened somewhat as the sheer scale of the task becomes clear. But don’t get in a slump just yet, becau…
5 years, 5 months ago
#35: The first woman on the moon; evolution special; purpose of sleep and dreams; deep water mystery
Season 1 Episode 35
We’ve all wondered why we dream, or even why we sleep. We know it’s good for you, but we don’t really know what’s going on in the brain while you’re …
5 years, 5 months ago
#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time
Season 1 Episode 34
Move over Mars - Venus might actually be the best place to find alien life in our solar system. Phosphine, a molecule that on Earth is only created b…
5 years, 5 months ago
#33: The healthy-eating revolution; China’s cosmic ambitions; Russia’s pursuit of gene-editing technology; the world’s greatest mammal
Season 1 Episode 33
If you’ve longed for the day when scientists announce pizza is actually good for you, you *may* be in luck. It turns out there’s no such thing as a u…
5 years, 5 months ago
#32: Billionaire plan to geoengineer the planet; how the moon affects your health; Neuralink’s telepathic pigs
Season 1 Episode 32
If we’re not going to make the effort to cut carbon emissions, why don’t we manipulate Earth’s climate, forcing it to cool down? Obviously that’s not…
5 years, 6 months ago
#31: Widening the search for alien life on habitable planets; why unconscious bias training might not work; the microbiome of cancer tumours
Season 1 Episode 31
The universe is so large, so expansive, it’s hard to believe that life doesn’t exist elsewhere. Over the years we’ve found a handful of planets that …
5 years, 6 months ago
#30: Redefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades
Season 1 Episode 30
Our measurement of time isn’t up to scratch. We can’t define a second or an hour or even a day by referring to the length of time it takes the Earth …
5 years, 6 months ago
#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first
Season 1 Episode 29
By now we’re all feeling the effects of video call fatigue. Even though we’ve found new ways to connect with each other virtually during lockdown, re…
5 years, 6 months ago
#28: Origin of life on Earth; second wave of coronavirus; science of miscarriage
Season 1 Episode 28
How did life spring up on planet Earth? What happened to turn sterile, lifeless rock into cells that could harness energy, grow and reproduce?
In the …
5 years, 7 months ago
#27: Putting plastic back on the agenda; revisiting the iconic black hole image, how dinosaurs dominated the planet
Season 1 Episode 27
With the threat of coronavirus taking centre stage in all our minds, has the issue of plastic waste taken a backseat - has the public lost interest?
I…
5 years, 7 months ago