Is AI making us stupid?
Artificial intelligence can execute tasks in seconds that once took humans hours, if not days to complete. While this may be great for productivity, some researchers are concerned that our increasing ...
2 Des 202520min
Is it the beginning of the end for animal testing?
Patrick Vallance, the minister for science, research and innovation, recently unveiled a plan to cut animal testing through greater use of AI and other technologies, with the eventual aim of phasing i...
27 Nov 202517min
Bitter rows and overnight talks: how a fragile Cop30 deal was agreed
After bitter arguments, threatened walkouts and heated all-night negotiations, delegates eventually reached a deal this weekend at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil. To unpick what was achieved and w...
24 Nov 202515min
‘Chunks of earth just disappear’: life on a collapsing island
As the Cop30 climate talks continue in Brazil, Madeleine Finlay hears about a landscape at the opposite end of the planet facing the direct impacts of the climate crisis. The Guardian reporter Leyland...
20 Nov 202516min
Should the UK brace for a brutal flu season?
This year’s flu season has begun more than a month earlier than usual, with a mutated strain spreading widely among younger people and expected to drive a wave of hospital admissions as it reaches the...
18 Nov 202516min
Why everyone’s talking about 3I/Atlas, a lupus breakthrough, James Watson’s legacy
Ian Sample joins Madeleine Finlay to discuss some of the most intriguing science stories from the week. They discuss the complicated legacy of James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery o...
13 Nov 202520min
Never forget a face? You could be a super recogniser
Do you have an uncanny recall for faces? Have you ever recognised the same extra in TV shows that are decades apart? If so you could be part of the small number of super recognisers. Research from the...
11 Nov 202515min
Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode three: ask the people that know
Global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how to save the Amazon? In the final episode of this t...
7 Nov 202525min
