Three scientists on what it's like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration
The Trump administration’s cuts to funding for American universities and research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health, which has an annual budget o...
1 Maj 202539min
Brazil’s anti-vax disinformation economy
Few places on earth are immune to the explosion of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and health disinformation fuelled by the COVID pandemic. But in countries like Brazil, where the disinformation ...
24 Apr 202527min
The Birkin bag game
The Birkin bag made by French luxury retailer Hermès has become a status symbol for the global elite. Notoriously difficult to obtain, the world's rich obsess over how to get their hands on one. But w...
17 Apr 202525min
How AI could influence the evolution of humanity
Some of the leading brains behind generative AI have warned about the risk of artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity, if left unchecked. But what if the influence of AI on humans is much mor...
9 Apr 202526min
Ancient cities had hidden disease protections
Five years since Covid, not only has the pandemic affected the way we live and work, it’s also influencing the way researchers are thinking about the past. In this episode archaeologist Alex Bentley f...
3 Apr 202521min
Shipping produces 3% of global emissions. How to get that down, quickly
Ships transport around 80% of the world’s cargo. From your food, to your car to your phone, chances are it got to you by sea. The vast majority of the world’s container ships burn fossil fuels, which ...
27 Mars 202522min
Prospects of lasting peace between Turkey and the Kurds
For over 40 years, the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey, fighting for Kurdish rights and autonomy.But in late February, Abdullah Öcalan, the PKK’s impriso...
20 Mars 202525min
The surreal story of how COVID took over a remote city in the Amazon
When the first cases of COVID-19 began to spread around the world in early 2020, people in Iquitos, a remote city in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, weren’t unduly worried. They assumed their isolat...
13 Mars 202532min
