208 Episodes

  1. Changing a nation's diet

    Published: 08/12/2022
  2. Discovery: how celebrity footballers can help reduce prejudice against minorities

    Published: 05/12/2022
  3. Young people’s shifting relationship with alcohol

    Published: 01/12/2022
  4. Treating mental illness with electricity

    Published: 24/11/2022
  5. Uncharted Brain 3: the role viruses may play in Alzheimer’s

    Published: 19/11/2022
  6. Uncharted Brain 2: the family trauma of dementia from sports injuries

    Published: 18/11/2022
  7. Uncharted Brain 1: a lifelong study unlocks clues to Alzheimer’s

    Published: 17/11/2022
  8. Africa's stolen objects: what happens after they return

    Published: 10/11/2022
  9. How to depolarize deeply divided societies

    Published: 03/11/2022
  10. Discovery: celibacy's surprising evolutionary advantages

    Published: 31/10/2022
  11. Radiation, pollution and urbanization are taking over natural selection

    Published: 27/10/2022
  12. When digital nomads come to town

    Published: 20/10/2022
  13. Inside Brazil’s divisive gun debate

    Published: 13/10/2022
  14. Secretive lawsuits by fossil fuel companies could hold back climate action

    Published: 06/10/2022
  15. Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor

    Published: 29/09/2022
  16. Thwaites Glacier: the melting, Antarctic monster of sea level rise

    Published: 22/09/2022
  17. Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter

    Published: 15/09/2022
  18. The cold war double agent abandoned by the spy agencies he risked his life for

    Published: 27/07/2022
  19. What did dinosaurs actually look like?

    Published: 16/06/2022
  20. A brief update

    Published: 01/06/2022

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