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
Has the Moon entered a new epoch?
In our short history of space exploration, humans have already changed the Moon significantly. From the cultural heritage of our first footprints to the damage caused by spacecraft crashes, our presen...
12 Jan 202426min
Email overload: How a full inbox affects your mental health, and what you can do to take back control
It’s a feeling most of us will have experienced at some point: you arrive at work in the morning and open your email client only to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unread messages staring back a...
8 Jan 202427min
The anti-ageing wonder drugs of the near future
Could you ever take a pill that actually prevents ageing? If we’re lucky, absolutely. In fact, such a pill might be available within the next decade. That’s according to our guest today Andrew Steele,...
5 Jan 202432min
