How animals speak to each other
From birdsong to wolf howls, from dolphins’ clicks and whistles to gibbons’ whoops and wows, the natural world is filled with a myriad of animal vocalisations that are as varied as they are numerous. ...
9 Feb 202430min
How to perfect your coffee routine
Coffee is a drink favoured by billions of people around the world, but doing it right isn't easy. We spoke to Christopher Hendon, a computational materials chemist and coffee expert from the Univers...
5 Feb 202427min
Why humans need laughter
Laughter is a fundamental part of our lives, but why do we do it? We spoke to Sophie Scott, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University College London to better understand why and how we l...
2 Feb 202425min
Why hedgehog numbers are falling and how we can stop it
Whether it’s from reading Beatrix Potter’s Mrs Tiggy-Winkle or from encounters in our own gardens, many of us have a special place in our hearts for hedgehogs. But sadly, the charismatic mammals are h...
29 Jan 202426min
How to lose weight the scientific way
Chances are, many of us will have tried to drop a few pounds at some point in our lives. And it’s likely that to do so we will have cut down on the amount of calories we are consuming, exercised a bit...
26 Jan 202425min
Avocados: Nutritional superfood or environmental disaster?
Since their first appearance on our supermarket shelves several decades ago, avocados have gone from being a mere exotic curiosity to a regular feature on many millennials’ breakfast tables. But how h...
22 Jan 202427min
How to pace yourself in an exhausting world
How can we rearrange our lives to get a bit more energy? In her new book Pace Yourself: How to have energy in an exhausting world, Amy Arthur traces the latest science that can help you find the right...
19 Jan 202429min
The science of the paranormal: Why we see ghosts, UFOs and visions of our past lives
UFOs, tarot cards, and ghostly figures. The paranormal world is all around us, but how can the unexplainable be explained? We spoke to Chris French, the head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Uni...
15 Jan 202433min
