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Is AI watching you? The hidden links between research and surveillance
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00:45 Is AI-research being co-opted t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight
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00:45 The tiny moths that use the sta…
1 year, 3 months ago
Hundreds of physicists on a remote island: we visit the ultimate quantum party
According to legend, physicist Werner Heisenberg formulated the mathematics behind quantum mechanics in 1925 while on a restorative trip to the remot…
1 year, 3 months ago
This stretchy neural implant grows with an axolotl's brain
00:45 A flexible neural-implant that grows with the brain
Researchers have developed a soft electronic implant that can measure brain activity of amph…
1 year, 3 months ago
Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan
In this Podcast Extra, we examine President Donald Trump's calls for NASA to land humans on Mars. Although the White House has proposed spending some…
1 year, 3 months ago
Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron
00:45 Iron’s role in mice sex determination
Iron deficiency in mice mothers can sometimes result in their offspring developing female sex organs despi…
1 year, 3 months ago
Audio long read: Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky
With the world looking likely to blow past the temperature targets laid out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a growing number of voices are sayin…
1 year, 4 months ago
AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth's core leaking?
00:33 Was a boom in papers driven by AI?
A spike in papers formulaically analysing a public data set has sparked worries that AI is being used to gene…
1 year, 4 months ago
These malaria drugs treat the mosquitos — not the people
00:45 Treating mosquitoes for malaria
Researchers have developed two compounds that can kill malaria-causing parasites within mosquitoes, an approach …
1 year, 4 months ago
How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van
00:46 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road trip
Researchers have developed a portable antimatter containment device and tested it by puttin…
1 year, 4 months ago