Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather
Season 1 Episode 78
More than a week since England lifted its covid restrictions, infection numbers in the UK are very high. The team examines how the country has set up…
5 years, 1 month ago
#77: Is dropping covid restrictions unethical?; methane hints to life on Mars; Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin’s road to space
Season 1 Episode 77
Freedom day arrived in England this week, as the country dropped most covid restrictions. But as cases continue to rise and many people, children inc…
5 years, 1 month ago
#76: Harm of race-based medicine; space tourism industry is go; America’s heatwave challenges
Season 1 Episode 76
Race-based medical practises are being challenged more and more, as it becomes increasingly clear they have little basis in science. The team finds o…
5 years, 2 months ago
#75: Vaccine for kids; legacy of Dolly the sheep; how to repair the climate; China’s quantum advantage
Season 1 Episode 75
In the UK, rules around attendance at schools after a covid outbreak are changing, but the country still hasn’t decided whether or not to vaccinate c…
5 years, 2 months ago
#74: ‘Dragon man’ could be new species of human; Wally Funk goes to space; human and financial cost of heatwave; how covid affects the brain
Season 1 Episode 74
A unique kind of human skull has been discovered in China. The team describes the details of this skull, known as the ‘Dragon Man’, and explains how …
5 years, 2 months ago
#73: How to treat long covid; evolution of cooperation; Turing’s ACE computer; aliens watching Earth
Season 1 Episode 73
The symptoms of long covid are diverse and numerous, and we’re still getting to grips with a clinical definition. Adam Vaughan visited the UK’s first…
5 years, 2 months ago
#72: The evil in all of us; delta variant of coronavirus; glacier memory project
Season 1 Episode 72
The delta variant of covid-19 has torn across India, and is making its way around the globe, forcing the extension of lockdown measures in the UK. Th…
5 years, 3 months ago
#71: Alzheimer’s treatment approved; human brain map breakthrough; time flowing backwards
Season 1 Episode 71
For the first time in 18 years, a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. This is big news because…
5 years, 3 months ago
#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap
Season 1 Episode 70
From a bat… or from a lab? It seemed the question of where SARS-CoV-2 originated had been settled, but recently it's been reignited. Amid lots of con…
5 years, 3 months ago
#69: Coronavirus evolution; geoengineering and food supply; Alice Roberts on the revolution in archaeology
Season 1 Episode 69
A new variant of coronavirus which originated in India is spreading rapidly. The team explains how both this new mutation and the UK variant are capa…
5 years, 3 months ago