New Scientist Podcasts

340 Episodes

1. CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey

   Published: 14/11/2023
2. Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy

   Published: 10/11/2023
3. Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt

   Published: 7/11/2023
4. Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads

   Published: 3/11/2023
5. CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts

   Published: 31/10/2023
6. Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer

   Published: 27/10/2023
7. Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds

   Published: 23/10/2023
8. Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator

   Published: 20/10/2023
9. CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society

   Published: 17/10/2023
10. Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?

    Published: 13/10/2023
11. Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon

    Published: 10/10/2023
12. Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles

    Published: 6/10/2023
13. CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history

    Published: 2/10/2023
14. Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?

    Published: 29/09/2023
15. Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again

    Published: 25/09/2023
16. Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn

    Published: 22/09/2023
17. CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions

    Published: 18/09/2023
18. Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos

    Published: 15/09/2023
19. Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto

    Published: 11/09/2023
20. Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age

    Published: 8/09/2023