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#58: Covid good news; cold water swimming; quantum unreality
Season 1 Episode 58
This week: relief and joy for people in the US, with the news that those who’ve had two doses of vaccine will be allowed to meet up inside with frien…
5 years, 6 months ago
#57: Moon base; Neanderthal speech; Elizabeth Kolbert on geoengineering
Season 1 Episode 57
Ever looked up at the Moon and thought “I could live there”? Well… this week we hear how Chinese researchers have managed to make an almost completel…
5 years, 6 months ago
#56: How to spend a trillion dollars; landing on Mars; exercise and metabolism myths
Season 1 Episode 56
What could you do with a trillion dollars? Rowan Hooper tackles this question in his latest book which examines how the money could be used to safegu…
5 years, 6 months ago
#55: Rescuing nature; Mars missions; new covid mutation
Season 1 Episode 55
2021 could well go down in history as the year we saved our planet… the alternative really doesn’t bear thinking about. Luckily the team brings news …
5 years, 7 months ago
#54: Next-gen vaccines; alien space probes; ethics of fish
Season 1 Episode 54
Whilst we’ve been celebrating the rollout of the covid-19 vaccines, new variants of the virus have thrown a spanner in the works, and there’s a conce…
5 years, 7 months ago
#53: Pandemic burnout; vaccines for the world; sustainable fuel
Season 1 Episode 53
By now most of us have felt or are feeling the effects of pandemic burnout. From unexplained exhaustion to emotional detachment and general uneasines…
5 years, 7 months ago
#52: Life after vaccination; gaslighting; mind reading
Season 1 Episode 52
A year on from the launch of our podcast, the team reflects on the news highlighted in the first ever episode, of a small outbreak of an unknown viru…
5 years, 7 months ago
#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data
Season 1 Episode 51
As we continue to discover new mutant variants of the covid-19 virus, the team looks at how these will impact vaccination efforts and discuss the lon…
5 years, 7 months ago
#50: Covid vaccine dosing; superconductors; coral restoration
Season 1 Episode 50
The coronavirus vaccines that have been approved so far all require two doses to be given 3-4 weeks apart. But the UK has chosen to delay the time be…
5 years, 8 months ago
#49: New coronavirus variants
Season 1 Episode 49
Two fast-spreading variants of coronavirus have been discovered in the UK and South Africa. With case numbers soaring, it’s feared these variants cou…
5 years, 8 months ago