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Science Of The Times is a science podcast hosted by Tim Coulson And Syma Khalid. It has 47 episodes, with the latest published February 2026.

Do you want to learn a little more about topical science findings? Do many of the science stories you hear leave you with unanswered questions? Syma and Tim will discuss in non-technical language and in a fun and engaging style, recently published science findings. Guests will be authors of these papers and will include some of the world’s most exciting scientists who are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge. Covering, among other things, artificial intelligence, the search for alien life, the latest treatments for diseases, quantum computers, the science of football and topics requested by listeners, the half hour episodes will leave listeners feeling a little more knowledgeable about cutting-edge science and how scientists make discoveries.

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1

Where Genome Editing and Artificial Intelligence meet New Species Lie

2

Badly Behaving Billionaires

3

The Science of Christmas

4

A Little History Of The Earth

5

The Rise and Decline of Us

6

Cracking The Code Of Chronic Pain

7

The Microbial Majority

8

Entangled Futures: The Science and Promise of Quantum Computing

9

What’s it like to be a bat? How do they see the world?

10

Playing Lego with chemistry to build structures that could save the environment.

11

Avian Affairs

12

The Decline of the Primate Handyman

13

Waspish Behaviour

14

Planet Hunters: Secrets of the Exoplanet Boom

15

The Madness of the Silicon Valley Ultra-rich

16

Fossils and Feathers: Rethinking What We Know About Dinosaurs

17

New antibiotics are needed to change the game.

18

Jonathan Amos The Voice Behind BBC Science A Day in the Life

19

Life’s Left Turn: The Strange Science Behind Molecular Asymmetry

20

The Good the Bad and the Migrant

21

How did the diversity of life come about?

22

Science Explainer: Recent Mount Etna Eruption

23

Question and Answer Time!

24

The Science Of Football

25

Science Explainer: Why is it so hard to kill bacteria?

26

Why Wolves Don’t Change Rivers

27

Science Explainer: New Funding for US based scientists looking to move to the UK.

28

Break Barriers: Women, the Physical Sciences Need You Now!

29

Why Ginger Cats Are Mostly Boys (and Why Some Wolves Are Black!)

30

How To Build A Sustainable World

31

AI Undermines Health Science

32

Why Is There A Universe? Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

33

The Quantum Revolution: Lee Smolin’s Bold Theory to Unite Physics

34

Special Edition- Can academia provide solutions to threats to biodiversity?

35

Should we fear AI?

36

Natural and artificial genetic hybrids: dogs, coyotes and dire wolves. PART 2

37

Natural and artificial genetic hybrids: dogs, coyotes and dire wolves.

38

Will Zombie ants be the last of us?

39

SPECIAL EDITION - Interview with David Baker 2024 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry

40

De-mything the hype around de-extinction

41

Snake venom 'milkers' beware the proteins and not the snake!

42

How did dogs become our best friend?

43

Not all birds are the same

44

OSIRIS-REx 'Touch and go' and the emergence of life elsewhere in the cosmos!

45

Unravelling the secrets of our genes.

46

Smart Male Fish Get The Girls!

47

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