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Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024
Season 1 Episode 279
Episode 279
Antarctic sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate. A collapse like the one we’re seeing was given just a 1 in 700 billion year chance …
1 year, 3 months ago
Weekly: Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books
Season 1 Episode 278
Episode 278
Concerns about bird flu are rising as two cases in North America suggest the virus is adapting to humans. Evidence of human-to-human trans…
1 year, 3 months ago
Weekly: Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age
Season 1 Episode 277
Episode 277
Chimps are an intelligent species, capable of using tools and developing culture - so why have humans surpassed them to such a huge extent…
1 year, 3 months ago
Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?
Season 1 Episode 276
Episode 276
Are the COP climate summits doing enough to help us avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change, or are they not fit for purpose,…
1 year, 3 months ago
Weekly: The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree
Season 1 Episode 275
Episode 275
The origins of the world’s oldest known writing system are being uncovered. Cuneiform was invented around 3200 BC in ancient Mesopotamia, …
1 year, 4 months ago
Weekly: Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria
Season 1 Episode 274
Episode 274
World leaders are in Colombia for the COP16 biodiversity summit. As delegates hash out a path forward, have we actually made any progress …
1 year, 4 months ago
Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well
Season 1 Episode 273
Episode 273
The mystery of “Well Man”, an ancient cold case, has just been solved. A Norse saga tells that in 1197, in the midst of a Viking raid, war…
1 year, 4 months ago
Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction
Season 1 Episode 272
Episode 272
SpaceX has made history with its Starship rocket, the largest rocket ever built and one that’s hoped to eventually take us to Mars. In its…
1 year, 4 months ago
Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back
Season 1 Episode 271
Episode 271
If we overshoot 1.5 degrees of global warming, there is no going back. The hope has long been that if - and when - we blow past our climat…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
The great auk was a flightless bird which was last spotted in Iceland in 1844. It is the subject of the book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the…
1 year, 5 months ago