End of an era: Britain finally says goodbye to coal
Just before Britain’s last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, powered down for the final time, Madeleine Finlay travelled to Nottinghamshire with energy correspondent Jillian Ambrose for a l...
30 Sep 202417min
Is the ocean becoming too acidic to sustain life?
Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s lif...
26 Sep 202414min
Are the world’s oldest people really that old?
Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has just won an Ig Nobel prize – given to scientific research ...
24 Sep 202416min
Live episode: will AI make a good companion?
In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion? AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult probl...
21 Sep 202436min
The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters
Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep acros...
19 Sep 202414min
From dementia to heart disease: could weight-loss jabs transform chronic conditions?
They were developed as diabetes drugs, then their potential for promoting significant weight loss became apparent. And now study after study seems to suggest that drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy coul...
17 Sep 202416min
Transparent skin, bird flu, and why girls’ brains aged during Covid: the week in science
Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new technique that uses food colouring to make skin transparent, to th...
12 Sep 202416min
Into the abyss beneath Greenland’s glaciers
Environment editor Damian Carrington tells Madeleine Finlay about his recent trip to Greenland on board a ship with a group of intrepid scientists. They were on a mission to explore the maelstrom bene...
10 Sep 202415min
