Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron
00:45 Iron’s role in mice sex determinationIron deficiency in mice mothers can sometimes result in their offspring developing female sex organs despite having male sex genes, according to new research...
4 Juni 202530min
Audio long read: Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky
With the world looking likely to blow past the temperature targets laid out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a growing number of voices are saying that carbon removal technologies will be necessar...
30 Maj 202515min
AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth's core leaking?
00:33 Was a boom in papers driven by AI?A spike in papers formulaically analysing a public data set has sparked worries that AI is being used to generate low quality and potentially misleading analyse...
28 Maj 202520min
These malaria drugs treat the mosquitos — not the people
00:45 Treating mosquitoes for malariaResearchers have developed two compounds that can kill malaria-causing parasites within mosquitoes, an approach they hope could help reduce transmission of the dis...
21 Maj 202531min
How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van
00:46 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road tripResearchers have developed a portable antimatter containment device and tested it by putting it in a truck and driving it around CERN. Their s...
14 Maj 202530min
NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones
In this Podcast Extra, we examine recent developments US National Science Foundation, which has seen significant numbers of research grants terminated. In addition, there have been freezes on funding ...
12 Maj 202511min
Herring population loses migration 'memory' after heavy fishing
00:46 How fishing activity altered the migration pattern of HerringSelective fishing of older herring has resulted in a large shift in the migration pattern of these fish, according to new research. F...
7 Maj 202537min
The dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?
In this episode:00:46 What will be left of US science after Trump 2.0?100 days into his term, President Donald Trump and his administration have already caused the biggest shakeup in modern scientific...
30 Apr 202527min
