208 Episodes

  1. 2022 science preview: mRNA vaccines, asteroid missions and collaborative robots

    Published: 05/01/2022
  2. How the arts can help us come back together again

    Published: 16/12/2021
  3. Peering into the history of the universe: astronomers explain why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal

    Published: 09/12/2021
  4. Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID

    Published: 02/12/2021
  5. How abortion access is changing around the world

    Published: 25/11/2021
  6. Glasgow Climate Pact: what happened at COP26 and what it means for the world

    Published: 18/11/2021
  7. Ten years to 1.5°C: how climate anxiety is affecting young people around the world

    Published: 11/11/2021
  8. Tigray: the devastating toll of Ethiopia's vicious year of war

    Published: 04/11/2021
  9. Degrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save the planet

    Published: 28/10/2021
  10. Taiwan: what is China's long-term strategy?

    Published: 21/10/2021
  11. Explaining the 2021 Nobel Prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Published: 14/10/2021
  12. New clues to consciousness + AI helps finish Beethoven's 10th symphony

    Published: 07/10/2021
  13. Germany election winners, losers, and how the Greens emerged as kingmakers + the benefits of saunas

    Published: 30/09/2021
  14. Have climate change predictions matched reality?

    Published: 23/09/2021
  15. Why is Justin Trudeau more popular abroad than in Canada? + Clues on why mosquitoes bite some of us more than others

    Published: 16/09/2021
  16. Haiti's history of cascading crises and political fragility

    Published: 09/09/2021
  17. Back to school with COVID: how to keep children safe

    Published: 02/09/2021
  18. The origins of the Taliban

    Published: 26/08/2021
  19. The biological switch that could turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain

    Published: 19/08/2021
  20. Al-Shabaab: why women join the Islamist militant group

    Published: 12/08/2021

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