The world, the universe and us

Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British economy; Link between exercise and your microbiome

12 september | 30 min

First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet

5 september | 31 min

Scientists discovered a 100,000-year-old organism; Breakthrough brain implant uses AI to treat pain; How climate change leads to revolutions

29 augusti | 26 min

Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome of chocolate

22 augusti | 21 min

Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel

14 augusti | 44 min

80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb

5 augusti | 34 min

Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium; geology of the Russian earthquake

1 augusti | 28 min

AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep; Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too

25 juli | 29 min

Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; New theory why we’ve not found aliens

18 juli | 30 min

How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathematics?; Why exercise reduces cancer risk

11 juli | 33 min

First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation

4 juli | 30 min

Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid

27 juni | 30 min

First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen

20 juni | 36 min

Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live

13 juni | 31 min

$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm

6 juni | 26 min

The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth

30 maj | 35 min

Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees

23 maj | 23 min

China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system

16 maj | 28 min

Ocean wonders and the new arguments against deep-sea mining; biophotons emitted from living things; drumming chimps and the origin of religion

9 maj | 28 min

Is our understanding of light completely wrong? Two consciousness theories go head-to-head; decoding dolphin whistles

2 maj | 29 min

Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality

29 april | 42 min

Weekly: First brain engineering in a mammal; landmark in fossil fuel lawsuits, the legacy of Pope Francis

25 april | 29 min

Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet?

17 april | 18 min

Weekly: Dire wolves (not) brought back from extinction; US science in existential crisis; how to pour the perfect coffee

11 april | 22 min

Weekly: How plant skin transplants could supercharge crops; China’s pollution win spikes global temperatures; the oldest ivory tools ever found

4 april | 27 min

Weekly: A remarkable view of pregnancy; how to waste less time on your smartphone; superacid diamond rain

28 mars | 23 min

Weekly: Life on Mars; biggest dark energy discovery in decades; the mystery of dark oxygen

21 mars | 20 min

Weekly: America is turning its back on science and the cosmos; photosynthesis limits; mysterious memory illusion

14 mars | 28 min

Weekly: Chimps, bonobos and humans have more in common than you might think

7 mars | 28 min

Weekly: How to finally get a good night’s sleep - with science

28 februari | 37 min

Weekly: Life-saving mice perform first aid; tiny lab-grown human brains; making skyscrapers and hair condition from wood

21 februari | 26 min

Weekly: Resurrecting frozen brains; giant asteroid heads to Earth; you really do have a ‘dessert stomach’

14 februari | 32 min

Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science

7 februari | 24 min

Weekly: Is DeepSeek really the ChatGPT killer?; alarming scale of ocean warming; dolphin peeing contests

31 januari | 29 min

Weekly: The Trump impact on climate and global health; the placebo effect’s evil twin; the mystery of dark oxygen

24 januari | 28 min

Weekly: The truth about Iron Age women; Climate whiplash and the LA wildfires; Rebooting the world’s first chatbot

17 januari | 30 min

Weekly: Gene-editing to make superhumans; first bird flu death in the US; perfect pasta with physics

10 januari | 28 min

Weekly: All You Need To Know For Science in 2025

3 januari | 24 min

Weekly: The Best of New Scientist in 2024: From Volcanic Diamonds to Immortal Brains

27 december 2024 | 35 min

Weekly: Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum

20 december 2024 | 45 min

Weekly: Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young

13 december 2024 | 26 min

Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024

6 december 2024 | 32 min

Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction

18 oktober 2024 | 22 min

Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back

11 oktober 2024 | 21 min

The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

4 oktober 2024 | 18 min

Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war

4 oktober 2024 | 24 min

Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

3 oktober 2024 | 23 min

Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

2 oktober 2024 | 17 min

Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

1 oktober 2024 | 20 min

A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

30 september 2024 | 17 min

Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations

29 september 2024 | 16 min

Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese

27 september 2024 | 25 min

Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes

20 september 2024 | 26 min

Weekly: Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk

13 september 2024 | 30 min

CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater

9 september 2024 | 49 min

Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons

6 september 2024 | 25 min

Weekly: Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes

30 augusti 2024 | 30 min

CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us

26 augusti 2024 | 40 min

Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers?

23 augusti 2024 | 25 min

Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you

15 augusti 2024 | 28 min

CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far.

12 augusti 2024 | 38 min

Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy

9 augusti 2024 | 30 min

Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?

6 augusti 2024 | 34 min

Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’?

2 augusti 2024 | 34 min

CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace

29 juli 2024 | 31 min

Weekly: Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides

26 juli 2024 | 34 min

Dead Planets Society: Can We Burn Uranus?

23 juli 2024 | 29 min

Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs

19 juli 2024 | 29 min

CultureLab: The incredible, intelligent abilities of plants with Zoë Schlanger

15 juli 2024 | 39 min

Weekly: Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming

12 juli 2024 | 34 min

Dead Planets Society: Putting Black Holes Inside Stuff

8 juli 2024 | 27 min

Weekly: World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic

5 juli 2024 | 36 min

CultureLab: Sonifying Mars, symphonically, with David Ibbett

1 juli 2024 | 40 min

Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox

28 juni 2024 | 26 min

Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism

24 juni 2024 | 26 min

Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon

21 juni 2024 | 27 min

CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool

17 juni 2024 | 41 min

Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report

14 juni 2024 | 39 min

Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?

10 juni 2024 | 29 min

Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely

7 juni 2024 | 31 min

CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger

3 juni 2024 | 44 min

Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?

31 maj 2024 | 36 min

Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet

28 maj 2024 | 27 min

Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour

24 maj 2024 | 30 min

CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction

20 maj 2024 | 32 min

Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids

17 maj 2024 | 31 min

Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms

14 maj 2024 | 37 min

Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak

10 maj 2024 | 28 min

CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change

7 maj 2024 | 35 min

Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ

3 maj 2024 | 32 min

Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse

29 april 2024 | 26 min

Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants

26 april 2024 | 36 min

CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence

22 april 2024 | 31 min

Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?

19 april 2024 | 36 min

Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole

15 april 2024 | 27 min

Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms

12 april 2024 | 32 min

CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation

8 april 2024 | 42 min

Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure

5 april 2024 | 33 min

Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet

1 april 2024 | 21 min

Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous

29 mars 2024 | 29 min

CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign

26 mars 2024 | 36 min

Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics

22 mars 2024 | 30 min

Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer

19 mars 2024 | 19 min

Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis

15 mars 2024 | 29 min

CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are

12 mars 2024 | 38 min

Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture

8 mars 2024 | 30 min

Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological

5 mars 2024 | 17 min

Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing

1 mars 2024 | 29 min

CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind

27 februari 2024 | 48 min

Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage

23 februari 2024 | 28 min

Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes

21 februari 2024 | 20 min

Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages

16 februari 2024 | 26 min

CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’

13 februari 2024 | 23 min

Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy

9 februari 2024 | 26 min

Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos

6 februari 2024 | 20 min

Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs

2 februari 2024 | 24 min

CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’

30 januari 2024 | 29 min

Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time

26 januari 2024 | 26 min

Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets

23 januari 2024 | 19 min

Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object

19 januari 2024 | 26 min

CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch

16 januari 2024 | 25 min

Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork

12 januari 2024 | 25 min

Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical

9 januari 2024 | 20 min

Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe

5 januari 2024 | 33 min

Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins

2 januari 2024 | 24 min

Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes

29 december 2023 | 30 min

CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads

26 december 2023 | 31 min

Best of 2023, part 1: Euclid telescope’s big year; AI is everywhere (for better and worse); why doctors searched their poo for tiny toys

22 december 2023 | 30 min

CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions

19 december 2023 | 40 min

Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future

17 december 2023 | 26 min

Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe

15 december 2023 | 27 min

CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback

12 december 2023 | 18 min

Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high

10 december 2023 | 27 min

Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds

8 december 2023 | 29 min

CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’

5 december 2023 | 27 min

Weekly: Biggest climate summit since Paris; thanking dirt for all life on Earth; what if another star flew past our solar system?

1 december 2023 | 25 min

Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift

28 november 2023 | 24 min

Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth

24 november 2023 | 27 min

Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two

22 november 2023 | 17 min

Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One

21 november 2023 | 21 min

Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)

17 november 2023 | 31 min

CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey

14 november 2023 | 24 min

Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy

10 november 2023 | 29 min

Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt

7 november 2023 | 18 min

Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads

3 november 2023 | 29 min

CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts

31 oktober 2023 | 32 min

Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer

27 oktober 2023 | 31 min

Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds

23 oktober 2023 | 27 min

Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator

20 oktober 2023 | 31 min

CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society

17 oktober 2023 | 35 min

Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?

13 oktober 2023 | 33 min

Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon

10 oktober 2023 | 24 min

Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles

6 oktober 2023 | 37 min

CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history

2 oktober 2023 | 29 min

Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?

29 september 2023 | 27 min

Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again

25 september 2023 | 23 min

Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn

22 september 2023 | 28 min

CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions

18 september 2023 | 25 min

Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos

15 september 2023 | 31 min

Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto

11 september 2023 | 24 min

Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age

8 september 2023 | 32 min

CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World

5 september 2023 | 37 min

Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume

1 september 2023 | 30 min

Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong

28 augusti 2023 | 17 min

Weekly: India lands on the moon; Placenta cells could heal the heart; Mind-altering drugs and binge drinking on the rise

25 augusti 2023 | 28 min

CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023

22 augusti 2023 | 31 min

Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy

18 augusti 2023 | 35 min

Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse

14 augusti 2023 | 19 min

Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about

11 augusti 2023 | 28 min

CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road

7 augusti 2023 | 22 min

Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2

4 augusti 2023 | 35 min

Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet

31 juli 2023 | 21 min

Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle

28 juli 2023 | 30 min

CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”

24 juli 2023 | 28 min

Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats

21 juli 2023 | 33 min

Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun

17 juli 2023 | 22 min

Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize

14 juli 2023 | 32 min

CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet

11 juli 2023 | 22 min

Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing

7 juli 2023 | 27 min

Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins

30 juni 2023 | 33 min

Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies.

22 juni 2023 | 32 min

Weekly: Claims that secret alien technology is held in the US; link between gut bacteria and intelligence; the parasite that makes ants live longer

15 juni 2023 | 25 min

#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions

13 juni 2023 | 21 min

#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter

8 juni 2023 | 23 min

#197 Ancient human Homo naledi had advanced culture; AI passes the world’s biggest Turing Test; climate change hits New York

8 juni 2023 | 32 min

#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically

5 juni 2023 | 31 min

#195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat

1 juni 2023 | 26 min

#194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate

26 maj 2023 | 34 min

#193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink

25 maj 2023 | 31 min

#192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death

18 maj 2023 | 21 min

#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science

11 maj 2023 | 21 min

#190 Problems for lab-grown meat; do we need vitamin D supplements?; waking the sleeping Arctic ocean; fish sing for Eurovision

11 maj 2023 | 30 min

#189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors

4 maj 2023 | 25 min

#188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut

4 maj 2023 | 24 min

#187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben

28 april 2023 | 16 min

#186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA

27 april 2023 | 31 min

#185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans

26 april 2023 | 22 min

#184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health

23 april 2023 | 16 min

#183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism?

20 april 2023 | 21 min

#182 3D-printing inside living organisms; what ChatGPT means for human intelligence; why insects fly towards light; carbon storage in the oceans

20 april 2023 | 31 min

#181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter

13 april 2023 | 32 min

#180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō

6 april 2023 | 24 min

#179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth

30 mars 2023 | 34 min

#178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023

23 mars 2023 | 31 min

#177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard

21 mars 2023 | 20 min

#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background

16 mars 2023 | 31 min

#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold

15 mars 2023 | 28 min

#174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science

9 mars 2023 | 29 min

#173 Understanding chronic health conditions; Artificial sweetener linked to heart attacks; Re-thinking galaxies; UN geoengineering report

2 mars 2023 | 31 min

#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health

28 februari 2023 | 20 min

#171 Earth’s mysterious “dark biome” and the search for life on Mars; Quantum computers; Judge Dredd predicts the future - the latest news in science

23 februari 2023 | 27 min

#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas

20 februari 2023 | 25 min

#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers

16 februari 2023 | 31 min

#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic

13 februari 2023 | 20 min

#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science

9 februari 2023 | 22 min

#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease?

7 februari 2023 | 32 min

#165 Water dowsing to detect leaks; Astroforge going asteroid mining; AI discovers new bacteria-killing proteins – the latest news in science

2 februari 2023 | 28 min

#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse

30 januari 2023 | 21 min

#163 Antidepressants; Exoplanets; California’s megadroughts – the latest news in science

26 januari 2023 | 25 min

#162 How to trigger positive tipping points to tackle climate change

25 januari 2023 | 30 min

#161 What they don’t tell you about the climate crisis with Assaad Razzouk

23 januari 2023 | 22 min

#160 Rejuvenation treatments; world to breach 1.5 degrees of global heating

19 januari 2023 | 29 min

#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia

16 januari 2023 | 21 min

#158 Exxon’s 1970s predictions for climate change were super accurate

12 januari 2023 | 20 min

#157 Computer lawyer takes first court case; brains speed up with age

12 januari 2023 | 28 min

#156: What you need to know in science and culture for 2023

5 januari 2023 | 29 min

#155: Our five favourite New Scientist long-reads from 2022

25 december 2022 | 29 min

#154: News review 2022 - stand-out moments and funniest stories

21 december 2022 | 33 min

#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate change

15 december 2022 | 36 min

#152 Ancient species of human could control fire; complete brain map of fly

7 december 2022 | 34 min

#151 COP15: the meeting to save life on Earth; anti-ageing properties of urine

1 december 2022 | 29 min

#150 Megadrought in the US; how to move an elephant

24 november 2022 | 29 min

#149 COP27 treaty emerges; a method to discover wormholes

17 november 2022 | 34 min

#148 Climate action from COP27; world population reaches 8 billion

10 november 2022 | 31 min

#147 The oldest yew trees in Europe – and how to save them

7 november 2022 | 11 min

#146 Accelerated end to fossil fuel; double discovery on Mars

3 november 2022 | 25 min

#145 COP27 climate summit preview; unexpected animal sounds

27 oktober 2022 | 25 min

#144 Geoengineering plan to slow the melt of arctic ice

23 oktober 2022 | 28 min

#143 Bird flu sweeps UK; secrets of the Neanderthal family

20 oktober 2022 | 29 min

#142: We need to talk about mental health and climate change

17 oktober 2022 | 18 min

#141 Energy threat to international security; a new form of multiplication

13 oktober 2022 | 33 min

#140 New Scientist Live Ask-us-Anything bonus episode

11 oktober 2022 | 24 min

#139 Gas leak impact on climate change; a new way to explain life

6 oktober 2022 | 31 min

#138 UK government’s attack on nature; when you can’t stop laughing

29 september 2022 | 26 min

#137 How to turn the shipping industry green; Enceladus passes habitability test

22 september 2022 | 29 min

#136 A step towards building artificial life; solar-powered slugs

15 september 2022 | 26 min

#135 The Amazon passes a tipping point; a place to live only 100 light years away

8 september 2022 | 30 min

#134 Artemis moon mission; decoding the dreams of mice

31 augusti 2022 | 28 min

#133 A treatment for food allergies; predicting earthquakes

24 augusti 2022 | 29 min

#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys

17 augusti 2022 | 31 min

#131 Why thinking hard tires you out; game-changing US climate bill

11 augusti 2022 | 33 min

#130 How to reverse death; Neil Gaiman on Sandman; AlphaFold and biology’s revolution; life in the multiverse with Laura Mersini-Houghton

4 augusti 2022 | 36 min

#129 BlueDot special: Mysteries of the universe; stories of hope and joy; growing tiny human brains; solving global problems

28 juli 2022 | 48 min

#128 Extreme heatwaves; China’s space station launch; covid’s effects in pregnancy; a black hole symphony

21 juli 2022 | 26 min

#127: Pig hearts transplanted into dead people; James Webb Space Telescope gives best-ever view of the universe; boosting wheat genetics to feed the world

14 juli 2022 | 30 min

#126: Are we stuck in a time loop? Legal action against climate change; covid fifth wave; time loop are we stuck?

7 juli 2022 | 33 min

#125: Poo transplants cure IBS; climate change shrinks the human niche; CRISPR babies; monkeypox latest

30 juni 2022 | 31 min

#124: Lopsided universe; solar activity affects heart health; hero rats trained for rescue missions

23 juni 2022 | 31 min

#123: ‘Sentient’ claim for Google AI; spacecraft spots starquakes; the rise of the mammals; hot brains

16 juni 2022 | 31 min

#122: The science of Top Gun; the 1.5°C climate goal is out of reach; return to the moon; hepatitis mystery

9 juni 2022 | 30 min

#121: Creation of artificial life; gene therapy saves children’s lives; new understanding of chronic pain

1 juni 2022 | 33 min

#120: DeepMind claims artificial intelligence breakthrough; searching for ancient life on Mars; Stonehenge surprise; monkeypox latest

26 maj 2022 | 32 min

#119: How to tackle the global food crisis; rainforest animal orchestra; George Monbiot on humanity’s biggest blight

19 maj 2022 | 29 min

#118: Heatwaves push limits of human tolerance; chemical computer to mimic brain; first non-human to practice medicine

12 maj 2022 | 31 min

#117: US threat to women’s health; saving the world with bacteria; Darwinian feminism and primate gender; invasion of the earthworms

5 maj 2022 | 28 min

#116: DNA from outer space; Devi Sridhar on covid lessons; climate change in an Oxford wood

28 april 2022 | 34 min

#115: Quantum consciousness; next decade of space exploration; songs played on rat whiskers

21 april 2022 | 31 min

#114: A message to aliens, phage therapy for acne, calibrating the world’s oldest computer

14 april 2022 | 21 min

#113: Climate change: suing governments to cut emissions; shock discovery in particle physics; a new function for dreams

7 april 2022 | 30 min

#112: Gene therapy success; biodiversity talks; the genetics of blood sucking; the farthest star ever seen

31 mars 2022 | 28 min

#111: Antarctic and Arctic record-breaking heat; octopus brains insight; black hole paradox explained

24 mars 2022 | 30 min

#110: Solution for Ukraine food crisis; why young blood rejuvenates; climate horror in Australia; Hannah Peel’s new music

18 mars 2022 | 31 min

#109: Ukraine war stokes energy crisis; emergency sounded over Amazon rainforest; secular intelligent design; mammalian virgin birth

11 mars 2022 | 34 min

#108: Ukraine: health crisis and threat of nuclear war; IPCC report on limits to climate adaptation; Wuhan origin of covid

4 mars 2022 | 35 min

#107: Ukraine invasion: cyberwar threat and effect on climate targets; Covid pandemic isn’t over; how we sense pain

25 februari 2022 | 35 min

#106: Saving children from cancer; new ways to remove greenhouse gases; brain growth in adults

18 februari 2022 | 33 min

#105: Electrodes treat paralysis; first detected isolated black hole; the ancient human inhabitants of a French cave; breakthroughs in transplant organs from pigs; why you should pick up your dog’s poo

11 februari 2022 | 28 min

#104: Gene variant for extreme old age, gravitational waves and dark matter, what fruit flies tell us about nature and nurture

4 februari 2022 | 31 min

#103: How covid affects brain function; glacier loss on Svalbard; start of the Anthropocene; hottest life on Earth

28 januari 2022 | 35 min

#102: Living with covid; Tonga eruption; neutral atom quantum computers; phage therapy for superbugs; AI with Beth Singler

21 januari 2022 | 30 min

#101: Man gets first pig heart transplant; robot therapy for mental health; omicron update; dolphin sexual pleasure

14 januari 2022 | 35 min

#100: New Scientist journalists pick out their scientific and cultural highlights for 2022

7 januari 2022 | 26 min

#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz

24 december 2021 | 42 min

#98: Brain cells wired to the Matrix; omicron latest; how to make truly intelligent machines; the mysterious border between sleep and wake

17 december 2021 | 28 min

#97: The latest on omicron; Don’t Look Up review; Steven Pinker on human rationality; the sound of melting glaciers

10 december 2021 | 30 min

#96: What does the rise of omicron mean for us?; living robots able to reproduce; mini black holes and the end of the universe

3 december 2021 | 26 min

#95: The origin of coronavirus; how red light boosts eyesight; deflecting asteroids; body chemical changes human behaviour

26 november 2021 | 29 min

#94: IBM’s huge quantum computer, Russia’s anti-satellite weapon, the verdict on COP26, AI predicting the next legal highs

19 november 2021 | 30 min

#93: COP26 special, week 2: voices from the Global South; what does the Glasgow Accord look like - and where does it go from here on climate action

12 november 2021 | 39 min

#92: COP26 week 1 special from Glasgow; first Earthlings to go interstellar; genetically engineered microbes for our cells

5 november 2021 | 36 min

#91: Earth heading for climate disaster; Kim Stanley Robinson looks to the future; hunt for aliens; Tesla worth $1 trillion

28 oktober 2021 | 28 min

#90: COP26 climate playlist; the science of Dune; life-saving treatment for children without immune systems; covid sweeps Iran

21 oktober 2021 | 31 min

#89: Climate-ready food of the future; the biology of poverty; deepfake audio; mystery cosmic signal; Captain Kirk in space

14 oktober 2021 | 22 min

#88: Should climate activism go to extreme levels?; malaria vaccine; new drugs to treat covid; mission to the asteroid belt

7 oktober 2021 | 27 min

#87: Mini black holes impacting the moon; first CRISPR gene-edited food goes on sale; why leaves turn brown in autumn

30 september 2021 | 27 min

#86: The woman who couldn’t smell; solving the climate and biodiversity emergencies; China’s quantum of solace

23 september 2021 | 28 min

#85: The violent frontline of climate change; bringing back the mammoth; another first for SpaceX

16 september 2021 | 31 min

#84: Health benefits of male flatulence; cave dwellings on Mars; covid booster shots

9 september 2021 | 27 min

#83: Low carbon shipping; Anil Seth on consciousness; humanity’s ancient history in Arabia; quantum gravity

2 september 2021 | 30 min

#82: Taliban seize Afghan biometric equipment; uploading our brains to machines; investigating Nazi uranium

26 augusti 2021 | 25 min

#81: Breakthrough in nuclear fusion; mini human brain grown with eyes; rapid evolution of synthetic bacteria

19 augusti 2021 | 29 min

#80: Analysis of IPCC climate report; the rise of synthetic milk; discovery of new carnivorous plant

12 augusti 2021 | 28 min

#79: Google creates a time crystal; microplastics in human placenta; boosting China’s vaccines; our climate future

5 augusti 2021 | 23 min

#78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather

29 juli 2021 | 28 min

#77: Is dropping covid restrictions unethical?; methane hints to life on Mars; Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin’s road to space

22 juli 2021 | 25 min

#76: Harm of race-based medicine; space tourism industry is go; America’s heatwave challenges

15 juli 2021 | 22 min

#75: Vaccine for kids; legacy of Dolly the sheep; how to repair the climate; China’s quantum advantage

8 juli 2021 | 28 min

#74: ‘Dragon man’ could be new species of human; Wally Funk goes to space; human and financial cost of heatwave; how covid affects the brain

1 juli 2021 | 24 min

#73: How to treat long covid; evolution of cooperation; Turing’s ACE computer; aliens watching Earth

24 juni 2021 | 31 min

#72: The evil in all of us; delta variant of coronavirus; glacier memory project

17 juni 2021 | 27 min

#71: Alzheimer’s treatment approved; human brain map breakthrough; time flowing backwards

10 juni 2021 | 28 min

#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap

3 juni 2021 | 27 min

#69: Coronavirus evolution; geoengineering and food supply; Alice Roberts on the revolution in archaeology

27 maj 2021 | 26 min

#68: Climate change and methane mystery; breathable liquid; covid vaccines

20 maj 2021 | 22 min

#67: Brain plasticity; entropy and the nature of time; vaccine booster shots

13 maj 2021 | 28 min

#66: Sea level rise; Bitcoin carbon pollution; how to measure self-awareness

6 maj 2021 | 27 min

#65: Chernobyl radiation safety; Chinese space station; wisdom of trees

29 april 2021 | 30 min

#64: Earth Day rescue plan: climate change and biodiversity special

22 april 2021 | 31 min

#63: Musical spider’s webs; magic mushrooms for treating depression; the sound of coronavirus

15 april 2021 | 27 min

#62: Synthetic life; rescue plan for Earth; muon g-2 new physics

8 april 2021 | 29 min

#61: Worse allergies; black hole in our backyard; new flavours of vanilla

1 april 2021 | 24 min

#60: New physics; anti-ageing human embryos; Mars update

26 mars 2021 | 26 min

#59: Vaccine success; hibernation and anti-ageing; world’s first computer

19 mars 2021 | 28 min

#58: Covid good news; cold water swimming; quantum unreality

12 mars 2021 | 24 min

#57: Moon base; Neanderthal speech; Elizabeth Kolbert on geoengineering

5 mars 2021 | 29 min

#56: How to spend a trillion dollars; landing on Mars; exercise and metabolism myths

26 februari 2021 | 25 min

#55: Rescuing nature; Mars missions; new covid mutation

19 februari 2021 | 24 min

#54: Next-gen vaccines; alien space probes; ethics of fish

12 februari 2021 | 27 min

#53: Pandemic burnout; vaccines for the world; sustainable fuel

5 februari 2021 | 27 min

#52: Life after vaccination; gaslighting; mind reading

29 januari 2021 | 25 min

#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data

22 januari 2021 | 27 min

#50: Covid vaccine dosing; superconductors; coral restoration

15 januari 2021 | 34 min

#49: New coronavirus variants

8 januari 2021 | 26 min

#48: Must-know science of 2021

1 januari 2021 | 29 min

#47: Christmas special quiz of the year

18 december 2020 | 29 min

#46: Stardust hunting, the illusion of the self, space rocks return to Earth

11 december 2020 | 28 min

#45: Vaccine roll out in UK and China; Chris Packham on connectedness; AlphaFold breakthrough

4 december 2020 | 34 min

#44: When we’ll get the vaccine; fast-expanding universe; lunar missions

27 november 2020 | 36 min

#43: How the covid RNA vaccine works; systemic racism; origin of humans

20 november 2020 | 30 min

#42: Vaccine for covid-19; origin of animals; overpopulation

13 november 2020 | 28 min

#41: The function of dreams

6 november 2020 | 26 min

#40: Halloween special: real-life vampires, the science of ghosts, deep-sea zombies, monster black holes

30 oktober 2020 | 29 min

#39: Social lives of viruses; CRISPR to fight antibiotic resistance; dealing with risk; George RR Martin and the moon

22 oktober 2020 | 28 min

#38: Tackling the climate crisis; essential, like, filler words of, um, language; mystery of the human penis; your covid questions answered

15 oktober 2020 | 33 min

#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19

8 oktober 2020 | 31 min

#36: Hunt for life on Venus and Mars; how the paleo diet affects your age; strategy for the second wave of coronavirus; species extinction crisis

1 oktober 2020 | 33 min

#35: The first woman on the moon; evolution special; purpose of sleep and dreams; deep water mystery

24 september 2020 | 33 min

#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time

17 september 2020 | 33 min

#33: The healthy-eating revolution; China’s cosmic ambitions; Russia’s pursuit of gene-editing technology; the world’s greatest mammal

10 september 2020 | 31 min

#32: Billionaire plan to geoengineer the planet; how the moon affects your health; Neuralink’s telepathic pigs

3 september 2020 | 34 min

#31: Widening the search for alien life on habitable planets; why unconscious bias training might not work; the microbiome of cancer tumours

27 augusti 2020 | 24 min

#30: Redefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades

20 augusti 2020 | 30 min

#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first

13 augusti 2020 | 31 min

#28: Origin of life on Earth; second wave of coronavirus; science of miscarriage

6 augusti 2020 | 34 min

#27: Putting plastic back on the agenda; revisiting the iconic black hole image, how dinosaurs dominated the planet

30 juli 2020 | 30 min

#26: The hidden dark matter of our food; NASA’s new search for life on Mars; smallpox in the American civil war

23 juli 2020 | 28 min

#25: Coronavirus effects on children, and on other diseases; changing the way you sit could add years to your life; supercrops for a climate-changed world

16 juli 2020 | 32 min

#24: Half a year in a world of covid-19; meat production breaking Earth’s nitrogen limits; what does gravity weigh?

9 juli 2020 | 32 min

#23: Coronavirus immunity and vaccine implications; evolutionary reasons for the types of world leader; treating people with CRISPR gene editing

2 juli 2020 | 33 min

#22: Consciousness from the body as well as the brain; record temperatures in the Arctic; long-term symptoms of covid-19

26 juni 2020 | 25 min

#21: How to prevent future pandemics, black lives matter and racism in science, suspended animation

19 juni 2020 | 28 min

#20: Human cryptic mate choice, cracking nuclear fusion, countering coronavirus misinformation

12 juni 2020 | 29 min

#19: How the UK got it wrong on coronavirus, mystery around chronic Lyme, Greta Thunberg’s musical debut

5 juni 2020 | 29 min

#18: Bending the curve on climate change, the era of commercial space travel, staying safe from coronavirus

29 maj 2020 | 26 min

#17: The truth about our appetites, the impact of coronavirus on conservation, mud volcanoes on Mars

22 maj 2020 | 30 min

#16: Hints of a new force of nature; making mice with human cells; seaweed in the fight against climate change

15 maj 2020 | 26 min

#15: Mystery of radio signals from deep space; the future of music; epidemic of bad coronavirus science

8 maj 2020 | 29 min

#14: Dreams, sleep and coronavirus, a new explanation of consciousness, brain-stimulation anorexia treatment

1 maj 2020 | 32 min

#13: Evidence for a parallel universe, protecting mental health in lockdown, why covid-19 hits men harder

24 april 2020 | 29 min

#12: Strength training for better health, bats mimic sound, biggest ever supernova

17 april 2020 | 22 min

#11: Covid World, coronavirus in New York, invasion of parakeets, bacteria and their amazing powers

10 april 2020 | 31 min

#10: Coronavirus questions answered, revolution in human evolution, mind-reading computers

3 april 2020 | 25 min

#9: Coronavirus lockdown – how to flatten the curve, reset the immune system, and the world’s most hardcore mammal

27 mars 2020 | 34 min

#8: Coronavirus special – disaster preparation, environmental change and disease emergence; plus science round-up

20 mars 2020 | 35 min

#7: Coronavirus vaccine, neutrinos in the early universe, and organ transplants

13 mars 2020 | 26 min

#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing

6 mars 2020 | 33 min

#5: Pandemic preparations, mind-reading – and a trillion trees

28 februari 2020 | 27 min

#4: Lab-grown meat, Neanderthal burials, and space tourism

21 februari 2020 | 29 min

#3: Coronavirus latest, a woman with half a brain, and love drugs

14 februari 2020 | 27 min

#2: Weird quantum experiment, origin of the alphabet, and coronavirus developments

7 februari 2020 | 23 min

#1: Wuhan coronavirus, nuclear fusion, and the Solar Orbiter spacecraft

31 januari 2020 | 26 min

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First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation

Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid

First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen

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$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm

The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth

Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees

China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system

Ocean wonders and the new arguments against deep-sea mining; biophotons emitted from living things; drumming chimps and the origin of religion

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Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality

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Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science

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Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?

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Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back

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CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater

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Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?

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