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185 Episodes

  1. Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual misconduct

    Published: 26/09/2024
  2. A lonely ancient plant needs a female partner – researchers are using drones and AI to find it

    Published: 19/09/2024
  3. Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result

    Published: 12/09/2024
  4. The emotional toll of dating apps and why they're no longer about finding love

    Published: 05/09/2024
  5. Geoengineering part 2: the case against reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth

    Published: 30/08/2024
  6. Geoengineering part 1: the case to try modifying the climate

    Published: 29/08/2024
  7. A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals

    Published: 22/08/2024
  8. Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?

    Published: 15/08/2024
  9. Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?

    Published: 08/08/2024
  10. Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countries over climate action

    Published: 01/08/2024
  11. New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis

    Published: 25/07/2024
  12. Can shared experiences bring people closer together?

    Published: 18/07/2024
  13. What next for the French and British right?

    Published: 11/07/2024
  14. Underwater soundscapes of seagrass meadows revealed in new recordings

    Published: 04/07/2024
  15. Don't Call Me Resilient: as war rages in Sudan, a new type of community resistance takes hold

    Published: 01/07/2024
  16. 3D printed guns: unmasking the designer of the FGC-9

    Published: 27/06/2024
  17. The Brexit roots of the UK's Rwanda asylum plan – and why other EU leaders might want to copy it

    Published: 20/06/2024
  18. Scientists can't agree on how fast the universe is expanding – why this matters so much for our understanding of the cosmos

    Published: 13/06/2024
  19. Creative flow: what's going on inside our brains when everything just clicks

    Published: 06/06/2024
  20. Breakthroughs and failures on the road to a universal snake bite antivenom

    Published: 30/05/2024

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