Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEnd of an era: Britain finally says goodbye to coal
Just before Britain’s last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, powered down for the final time, Madeleine Finlay travelled to Nottinghamshir…
2 years ago
Is the ocean becoming too acidic to sustain life?
Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compile…
2 years, 1 month ago
Are the world’s oldest people really that old?
Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has just wo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Live episode: will AI make a good companion?
In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion? …
2 years, 1 month ago
The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters
Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision sca…
2 years, 1 month ago
From dementia to heart disease: could weight-loss jabs transform chronic conditions?
They were developed as diabetes drugs, then their potential for promoting significant weight loss became apparent. And now study after study seems to…
2 years, 1 month ago
Transparent skin, bird flu, and why girls’ brains aged during Covid: the week in science
Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new technique that …
2 years, 1 month ago
Into the abyss beneath Greenland’s glaciers
Environment editor Damian Carrington tells Madeleine Finlay about his recent trip to Greenland on board a ship with a group of intrepid scientists. T…
2 years, 1 month ago
The race to understand mpox
Last month the World Health Organization declared the recent mpox outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergen…
2 years, 1 month ago
The arrest of Telegram’s founder, and what it means for social media
The arrest of Telegram’s founder and CEO in Paris last month has thrown the spotlight on the messaging app and its approach to content moderation. Ma…
2 years, 1 month ago