New Scientist Podcasts

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

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

Fri, 17 May 2024
295 - Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms

Tue, 14 May 2024
294 - Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak

Fri, 10 May 2024
293 - CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change

Tue, 07 May 2024
292 - Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ

Fri, 03 May 2024
291 - Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse

Mon, 29 Apr 2024
290 - Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants

Fri, 26 Apr 2024
289 - CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence

Mon, 22 Apr 2024
288 - Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?

Fri, 19 Apr 2024
287 - Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole

Mon, 15 Apr 2024
286 - Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms

Fri, 12 Apr 2024
285 - CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation

Mon, 08 Apr 2024
284 - Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure

Fri, 05 Apr 2024
283 - Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet

Mon, 01 Apr 2024
282 - Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous

Fri, 29 Mar 2024
281 - CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign

Tue, 26 Mar 2024
280 - Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics

Fri, 22 Mar 2024
279 - Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer

Tue, 19 Mar 2024
278 - Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis

Fri, 15 Mar 2024
277 - CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are

Tue, 12 Mar 2024
276 - Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture

Fri, 08 Mar 2024
275 - Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological

Tue, 05 Mar 2024
274 - Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing

Fri, 01 Mar 2024
273 - CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind

Tue, 27 Feb 2024
272 - Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage

Fri, 23 Feb 2024
271 - Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes

Wed, 21 Feb 2024
270 - Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages

Fri, 16 Feb 2024
269 - CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’

Tue, 13 Feb 2024
268 - Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy

Fri, 09 Feb 2024
267 - Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos

Tue, 06 Feb 2024
266 - Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs

Fri, 02 Feb 2024
265 - CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’

Tue, 30 Jan 2024
264 - Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time

Fri, 26 Jan 2024
263 - Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets

Tue, 23 Jan 2024
262 - Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object

Fri, 19 Jan 2024
261 - CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch

Tue, 16 Jan 2024
260 - Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork

Fri, 12 Jan 2024
259 - Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical

Tue, 09 Jan 2024
258 - Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe

Fri, 05 Jan 2024
257 - Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins

Tue, 02 Jan 2024
256 - Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes

Fri, 29 Dec 2023
255 - CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads

Tue, 26 Dec 2023
254 - 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

Fri, 22 Dec 2023
253 - CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions

Tue, 19 Dec 2023
252 - Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future

Sun, 17 Dec 2023
251 - Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe

Fri, 15 Dec 2023
250 - CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback

Tue, 12 Dec 2023
249 - Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high

Sun, 10 Dec 2023
248 - Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds

Fri, 08 Dec 2023
247 - CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’

Tue, 05 Dec 2023