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#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 …
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month ago
#26: The hidden dark matter of our food; NASA’s new search for life on Mars; smallpox in the American civil war
Season 1 Episode 26
What’s in our food? By now you’d think we’d have a pretty firm handle on that question, but it turns out we don’t know the half of it.
In the pod this…
6 years, 1 month ago
#25: Coronavirus effects on children, and on other diseases; changing the way you sit could add years to your life; supercrops for a climate-changed world
Season 1 Episode 25
Contracting covid-19 isn’t the only thing that’s making coronavirus deadly - the outbreak could lead to a jump in the number of deaths from diseases …
6 years, 2 months ago
#24: Half a year in a world of covid-19; meat production breaking Earth’s nitrogen limits; what does gravity weigh?
Season 1 Episode 24
It’s been half a year since coronavirus and covid-19 emerged and the world dramatically changed. Our understanding of the virus and the disease has a…
6 years, 2 months ago
#23: Coronavirus immunity and vaccine implications; evolutionary reasons for the types of world leader; treating people with CRISPR gene editing
Season 1 Episode 23
Coronaviruses don’t usually produce a strong “immune memory”, and that has been worrying scientists, because it spells trouble for long-term immunity…
6 years, 2 months ago
#22: Consciousness from the body as well as the brain; record temperatures in the Arctic; long-term symptoms of covid-19
Season 1 Episode 22
If your brain was put in a vat and supplied with food and oxygen, would it be able to think? Would it be you? For much of the 20th century, people as…
6 years, 2 months ago
#21: How to prevent future pandemics, black lives matter and racism in science, suspended animation
Season 1 Episode 21
There are now more than 8 million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, and at least 450,000 deaths. Given the lack of preparation for this pande…
6 years, 3 months ago
#20: Human cryptic mate choice, cracking nuclear fusion, countering coronavirus misinformation
Season 1 Episode 20
Scientists have discovered a fascinating new way that women might choose between men to father their babies - and the choice may happen after having …
6 years, 3 months ago
#19: How the UK got it wrong on coronavirus, mystery around chronic Lyme, Greta Thunberg’s musical debut
Season 1 Episode 19
The UK now has the highest number of covid-19 deaths in Europe, and worldwide, the total number of confirmed covid-19 deaths is second only to the US…
6 years, 3 months ago