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
The race to understand mpox
Last month the World Health Organization declared the recent mpox outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern. As scientists race to ...
5 Sep 202416min
The arrest of Telegram’s founder, and what it means for social media
The arrest of Telegram’s founder and CEO in Paris last month has thrown the spotlight on the messaging app and its approach to content moderation. Madeleine Finlay hears from Russian affairs reporter ...
3 Sep 202417min
Summer picks: the science of ‘weird shit’
The psychologist Chris French has spent decades studying paranormal claims and mysterious experiences, from seemingly impossible coincidences to paintings that purportedly predict the future. In this ...
29 Aug 202418min
