208 Episodes

  1. Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation

    Published: 24/02/2025
  2. Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required

    Published: 23/02/2025
  3. Tariffs: the winners and losers

    Published: 20/02/2025
  4. How does decentralised social media work?

    Published: 13/02/2025
  5. Where support for Germany’s far-right AFD is growing and why

    Published: 06/02/2025
  6. How close are quantum computers to being really useful?

    Published: 30/01/2025
  7. A wildfire warning from California's Ice Age past

    Published: 23/01/2025
  8. Silicon Valley’s bet on a future of AI-enabled warfare

    Published: 16/01/2025
  9. How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences

    Published: 09/01/2025
  10. Brain implants, agentic AI and answers on dark matter: what to expect from science in 2025

    Published: 02/01/2025
  11. How Zimbabwe reached the point of abolishing the death penalty

    Published: 19/12/2024
  12. Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy

    Published: 12/12/2024
  13. How do animals understand death?

    Published: 05/12/2024
  14. The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise

    Published: 28/11/2024
  15. 50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls grow to decolonize paleoanthropology

    Published: 21/11/2024
  16. The controversy over cod fishing in Canada

    Published: 14/11/2024
  17. Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new

    Published: 07/11/2024
  18. What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for

    Published: 31/10/2024
  19. Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed

    Published: 24/10/2024
  20. MicroRNA: Victor Ambros on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize

    Published: 17/10/2024

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