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The vest that can hear your heartbeat
00:45 A flexible, wearable, fabric microphone
Inspired by the ear, a team of researchers have developed an acoustic fibre that can be woven into fabri…
4 years, 6 months ago
The AI that deciphers ancient Greek graffiti
00:46 The AI helping historians read ancient texts
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can restore and date ancient Greek inscr…
4 years, 6 months ago
Coronapod: why stopping COVID testing would be a mistake
As many countries start to ease or even remove COVID restrictions entirely, there are growing concerns from researchers that this will lead governmen…
4 years, 7 months ago
COVID stimulus spending failed to deliver on climate promises
00:47 G20 nations fail to cut emissions in COVID stimulus packages
The G20 economies spent $14 trillion dollars on recovery packages to escape the glo…
4 years, 7 months ago
Audio long-read: The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers
Almost everything we do on the Internet is made possible by cryptographic algorithms, which scramble our data to protect our privacy. However, this p…
4 years, 7 months ago
Dinosaur-destroying asteroid struck in spring
00:47 Pinpointing the season when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
Around 66 million years ago, an enormous asteroid struck the Earth, leading to t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Tongan volcano eruption leaves scientists with unanswered questions
Scientists scramble to understand the devastating Tongan volcano eruption, and modelling how societal changes might alter carbon emissions.
In this ep…
4 years, 7 months ago
Coronapod: How African scientists are copying Moderna's COVID vaccine
Vaccine inequity continues to be one of the greatest challenges in the pandemic - with only 10% of those in low- and middle-income countries fully va…
4 years, 7 months ago
RNA test detects deadly pregnancy disorder early
RNA in blood shows signs of pre-eclampsia before symptoms occur, and the issues of urine in our sewage and what can be done about it.
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4 years, 7 months ago
Coronapod: what people get wrong about endemic COVID
The word endemic is often mistakenly used to describe a rosy end to the pandemic where COVID-19 becomes a mild, but ever-present infection akin to th…
4 years, 8 months ago