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Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg
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00:35 Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age — but giving birth turns it back
Growing a baby leads to changes in the distribution of…
2 years, 6 months ago
How climate change is affecting global timekeeping
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01:28 Inflammation’s role in memory
How memories are stored is an ongoing question in neuroscience. Now researchers have found an infl…
2 years, 6 months ago
AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs
This podcast has been corrected: in a previous version at 5:55 we stated that that the team's 200mm devices currently contain only a couple of magnet…
2 years, 6 months ago
Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why
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00:45 Making a map of the human heart
The human heart consists of multiple, specialised structures that all work together to enable th…
2 years, 6 months ago
These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment
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00:48 Bumblebees can learn new tricks from each other
One behaviour thought unique to humans is the ability to learn something from yo…
2 years, 6 months ago
Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol?
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00:49 What caused the Universe to become fully transparent?
Around 13 billion years ago, the Universe was filled with a dense ‘fog’ of…
2 years, 7 months ago
Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them
The phenomenon of animals catching diseases from humans, called reverse zoonoses, has had a severe impact on great ape populations, often representin…
2 years, 7 months ago
How whales sing without drowning, an anatomical mystery solved
The deep haunting tones of the world's largest animals, baleen whales, are iconic - but how the songs are produced has long been a mystery. Whales ev…
2 years, 7 months ago
Why are we nice? Altruism's origins are put to the test
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00:45 Why are humans so helpful?
Humans are notable for their cooperation and display far more altruistic behaviour than other animals…
2 years, 7 months ago
Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting
00:45 Smoking's long-term effects on immunity
It's well-known that smoking is bad for health and it has been linked to several autoimmune disorders, b…
2 years, 7 months ago