Big Unknowns: can we stop ageing? – Science Weekly podcast
With advances in medicine, science, and technology allowing humans to live longer than ever, can...
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Cross Section: Uta Frith – Science Weekly podcast
Nicola Davis sits down with Professor Uta Frith to talk autism, passion, rebellion and the role...
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A neuroscientist explains: how we perceive the truth - podcast
Dr Daniel Glaser explores what the wiring of the brain can tell us about how we perceive the world
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A neuroscientist explains: listener's emails about empathy – podcast
Responding to some of our listener’s emails, Dr Daniel Glaser ponders whether dogs have a Theory...
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Nudge theory: the psychology and ethics of persuasion - Science Weekly podcast
This week, Ian Sample explores the psychology behind ‘nudging’, its usage by governments, and...
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Is it time for an update to evolutionary theory? - Science Weekly podcast
The extended evolutionary synthesis is controversially proposed as an update to evolutionary...
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The hunt for a coronavirus vaccine
Scientists in more than 40 labs around the world are working round the clock to develop a...
The Science Weekly podcast is in Glasgow, where we are bringing listeners daily episodes from...
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Inside Delhi’s air pollution crisis
Over the past few weeks, a thick brown smog has enveloped Delhi. The pollution is so bad that the...
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A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science
Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have...
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Revolutionary! Why was 1700s France such a fertile time for science? - podcast
Steve Jones on science at the time of the French revolution - and why scientists were among the...
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How do human voices work? - podcast
What makes our speaking voices so distinctive and so recognisable? How can we transform the way...
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The ethics of growing human embryos in the lab - podcast
Should the current 14 day limit for growing human embryos in the lab be extended in light of...
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The truth about radiation - podcast
Why do we fear radiation? Is it because so much about it is still unknown, or that it’s often...
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The Juno probe: unearthing Jupiter’s past - podcast
After five years and 1.4bn miles, the Nasa spacecraft has arrived at its final destination, but...
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Big unknowns: what is consciousness? - podcast
What does it mean to be you? And how can science unpick the age-old debates around conscious...
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Big unknowns: is time an illusion? – podcast
Is time a figment of the human mind or the most fundamental of phenomena? And what do the...
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The secret lives of cities – podcast
Are cities anything more than the bricks, mortar, and steel that make them up? And what role can...
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Scents and sensibility: what's it like to live without smell? - podcast
In the second instalment of Brain waves, Dr Kevin Fong and Nathalie Nahai explore what it’s like...
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