Are cold and wet UK summers here to stay?
Here in the UK talking about the weather is already a national pastime, but this month the water-cooler weather chat has ramped up a notch as rain, grey skies and biting temperatures have put summer f...
13 Jun 202415min
Slaughter-free sausages: is lab-grown meat the future?
Ian Sample hears from Linda Geddes about her recent trip to the Netherlands to try cultivated meat sausages, courtesy of the company Meatable. Advocates say that cultivated meat could be the future of...
11 Jun 202414min
Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now?
A court in the Philippines has banned the commercial growth of golden rice, a genetically modified rice which was created to help tackle vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. It’s just the lat...
6 Jun 202415min
Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will teach us what we need to do’
For a long time, western science and Indigenous knowledge have been seen as distinct ways of learning about the world. But as we plunge the planet deeper into environmental crises, it is becoming clea...
4 Jun 202420min
Election risks, safety summits and Scarlett Johansson: the week in AI
It’s been a busy week in the world of artificial intelligence. OpenAI found itself in hot water with Scarlett Johansson after launching its new chatbot, Sky, drawing comparisons to the Hollywood star’...
30 Mai 202418min
Concrete without CO2: can our biggest building material go green?
Concrete is strong and durable – which is why it’s the basis for so much of our infrastructure. It’s also terrible for the planet, due to one key ingredient: cement, which is responsible for almost 90...
28 Mai 202414min
Why is air turbulence getting worse?
On Tuesday a British man died and several others were injured when their plane encountered severe turbulence between London and Singapore. And it looks like this kind of turbulence is something we’ll ...
23 Mai 202413min
In their prime: how trillions of cicadas pop up right on time
Right now, across much of the midwestern and eastern US, trillions of cicadas are crawling out from the soil. And this year is extra special, because two broods are erupting from the ground at once. T...
21 Mai 202416min
