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The World, the Universe and Us — 467 episodes
The Mystery of Childbirth Is Finally Being Unravelled
AI Just Solved One of the Hardest Problems in Mathematics
New Discovery Reveals the Secret Lives of Denisovans
The Nepal Disaster: How Climate Change is Reshaping the World
Scientists Find Best Evidence Yet For Dark Matter
Why Humans Like Bigger Breasts - And a New Way to Augment Them
ADHD Is Not a Myth - What the Science Really Says
Wildfires Changed Human Evolution - Is It Happening Again?
New Treatment Saves Children With Terminal Brain Cancer
Latitude Special: Why Festivals Make You Live Longer; Clearing Alzheimer’s Proteins from the Brain;Clouds Made of Rocks and Rubies; Orcas Blow Up Giant Fish
Climate 2026: Record Heat, Tens of Thousands Dead, Mass Evacuations
Scientists Pioneer Surgical Methods for Human Head and Eye Transplants
The Most Promising Alien Planet We've Ever Found?
Climate Crisis Is Triggering Global Food Shortages - New Predictions Are Devastating
7 Essential Lessons We Can Learn From Homer’s Odyssey
Chris Packham on the Untold Story of Evolution
Heatwaves Are Getting Deadlier - And It’s Going To Get Worse
Breakthrough Synthetic Cell Has Just Reproduced - But Is It Alive?
The Science of Football: Inside the 2026 World Cup
Ancient Human DNA Found in Stone Age Cave Art For First Time
A “Super” El Niño May Be Coming - Here’s What It Means
The Lost Solstice Monument That Predates Stonehenge By 500 Years
If We Can Make Genetically Engineered Designer Babies - Should We?
Scientists Mapped Earth's Vast Fungal Network - And It's Critical For The Climate
Millions of Fossil Whale Bones Found in Deep Ocean Graveyard
DeepMind Is Simulating Entire Worlds - Ready for AI Robots
Ötzi the Ice Man Contains Still-Living Microbes
The Thwaites 'Doomsday' glacier's ice shelf is about to break away
Some Scientists Want To Resurrect Extinct Species – Is It Even Possible?
The Hidden Methane Time Bomb That Could Accelerate The Climate Crisis
Science Reveals Neanderthals Had Dentists 60,000 Years Ago
Scientists Concerned By a Sudden Increase in the Rate of Sea Level Rise
The Strange Case Of The Man Immune To Alzheimer’s
Astronomers Stunned by a Tiny World With an Atmosphere
Craig Venter’s Legacy: The Most Influential Geneticist Since Watson and Crick
Record Heat, Wildfires and Drought - The Climate Crisis Is About To Accelerate
The Wood Wide Web: The Forest Discovery That Sparked a Backlash
Chernobyl 40 Years On: Legacy of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster
A “Super El Niño” Is Coming - And It Could Trigger Global Climate Chaos
Britain’s First Astronaut on the New Race to the Moon | Helen Sharman
How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower: New Scientist's stargazing companion
Genetic analysis reveals how the Neanderthals went extinct
The Male G-Spot Has Finally Been Found
Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad
World’s First Antimatter Truck Carries Most Valuable And Volatile Substance on Earth
Scientists Can Now Preserve a Brain After Death - What’s Next?
The Dangerous Bias Shaping the Future of AI
Rebecca Solnit On Why the Future Isn’t as Dark as It Looks
Why The Iran War Is Speeding The End Of The Fossil Fuel Era
Mathematics is Undergoing the Biggest Change in its History
The Radical Theory That Could Force Us To Rethink Alzheimer’s
We Now Have Early Warning Signal Of Ocean Current Collapse
Two 'Extinct' Mammals Species Have Been Discovered in New Guinea
How Ukraine Became a Drone Factory - and Changed Warfare Forever
The world is running out of water - can cloud-seeding save us?; Why some people get stuck in grief; Is our black hole actually a clump of dark matter?
How ancient humans crossed the vast ocean; Brain training for dementia; Life of science legend Maggie Aderin
Why Elon Musk plans to put 1 million satellites in orbit; Should we be giving sleep drugs to kids?; Why global pesticide risk is not improving
Mini human brain grows blood vessels; The geoengineering risk of termination shock; Trove of ancient fossils discovered
The 5 worst ideas of the 21st century – and how they went wrong
Rutger Bregman on the crisis of moral ambition; Why primates have same-sex relationships; Living longer is easier than you think; Bizarre method to fight climate change
Why does America want Greenland?; Mystery of dark DNA; Ozempic weight rebound
Humans are finally heading back to the moon; Cheaper weight loss drugs are coming; Milestone for LSD trials; Promise of new carbon tax
Best science TV, film and books of 2025 | The New Scientist culture review
Top Science Stories of 2025 | The New Scientist Features Special
Orcas and dolphins are now hunting together; Genetic root of psychiatric conditions; Black hole stars and cosmic ecology
How exercise shrinks tumours and starves cancer; Weird molecules found on comet 3I/ATLAS; Einstein v Bohr on the nature of light
The evolution of sperm and the enduring mystery of the scrotum; How our brain rewires itself 4 times in life; The (real) disaster scenarios of imminent climate breakdown
The origin and evolution of music: Steve Pretty plays the conch
New genome of ancient human; 95% of us have a dormant virus that causes disease; Formula E cars faster than F1; Bill Bryson joins the pod!
Why the claims about Hitler’s genome are misleading
COP30: The world's climate future hinges on this meeting
The collapse of America’s health data system; How sleep affects your focus; Life on Mars in liquid veins?
How mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action; Why birds sing the dawn chorus
Neuroscience of reality; Quest for dark matter; Folklore of geoscience (New Scientist Live Special)
First climate tipping point triggered; Man controls another person's body by brain implant; health worries over sumo wrestlers
Space 2075: How Humanity Will Live, Work and Make Drugs off-planet | Live Recording at the Royal Society
How Jane Goodall changed the world; How the universe ends; How “selfish sperm” affect male fertility
Emergency in Antarctica; How movement changes the brain; Why women live longer than men
Skull rewrites story of human evolution; Autism and Tylenol; discovery of wind coming from black hole
The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives; the asteroid coming VERY close to Earth; how dinosaurs shaped the ecosystem
Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British economy; Link between exercise and your microbiome
First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; The perils of scrolling while on the toilet
Scientists discovered a 100,000-year-old organism; Breakthrough brain implant uses AI to treat pain; How climate change leads to revolutions
Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome of chocolate
Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel
80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb
Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium; geology of the Russian earthquake
AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep; Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too
Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; New theory why we’ve not found aliens
How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathematics?; Why exercise reduces cancer risk
First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts to humans; First demonstration of interstellar navigation
Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid
First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen
Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live
$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm
The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth
Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien life; Digital oak trees
China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar system
Ocean wonders and the new arguments against deep-sea mining; biophotons emitted from living things; drumming chimps and the origin of religion
Is our understanding of light completely wrong? Two consciousness theories go head-to-head; decoding dolphin whistles
Weekly: Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality
Weekly: First brain engineering in a mammal; landmark in fossil fuel lawsuits, the legacy of Pope Francis
Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet?
Weekly: Dire wolves (not) brought back from extinction; US science in existential crisis; how to pour the perfect coffee
Weekly: How plant skin transplants could supercharge crops; China’s pollution win spikes global temperatures; the oldest ivory tools ever found
Weekly: A remarkable view of pregnancy; how to waste less time on your smartphone; superacid diamond rain
Weekly: Life on Mars; biggest dark energy discovery in decades; the mystery of dark oxygen
Weekly: America is turning its back on science and the cosmos; photosynthesis limits; mysterious memory illusion
Weekly: Chimps, bonobos and humans have more in common than you might think
Weekly: How to finally get a good night’s sleep - with science
Weekly: Life-saving mice perform first aid; tiny lab-grown human brains; making skyscrapers and hair condition from wood
Weekly: Resurrecting frozen brains; giant asteroid heads to Earth; you really do have a ‘dessert stomach’
Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science
Weekly: Is DeepSeek really the ChatGPT killer?; alarming scale of ocean warming; dolphin peeing contests
Weekly: The Trump impact on climate and global health; the placebo effect’s evil twin; the mystery of dark oxygen
Weekly: The truth about Iron Age women; Climate whiplash and the LA wildfires; Rebooting the world’s first chatbot
Weekly: Gene-editing to make superhumans; first bird flu death in the US; perfect pasta with physics
Weekly: All You Need To Know For Science in 2025
Weekly: The Best of New Scientist in 2024: From Volcanic Diamonds to Immortal Brains
Weekly: Most Amazing Science Stories of 2024 | Live at the Science Museum
Weekly: Does Google’s new quantum computer prove the multiverse exists?; 8 ways to keep your brain young
Weekly: Antarctica special, brain implant made from living cells, best TV and film of 2024
Weekly: Is bird flu spreading between people? Plus 2024’s best science books
Weekly: Why chimps are still in the Stone Age and humans are in the Space Age
Weekly: COP29: Are UN climate summits failing us and our planet?
Weekly: The origins of writing revealed; world’s largest (and oldest?) tree
Weekly: Microbiome special: how to boost your vital gut bacteria
Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well
Weekly: SpaceX makes history with Starship rocket; bringing thylacines back from extinction
Weekly: Climate overshoot - when we go past 1.5 degrees there is no going back
The Last of Its Kind - Gísli Pálsson | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Weekly: Hope for the world’s coral; the first drone vs drone war
Everything Is Predictable - Tom Chivers | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Eve - Cat Bohannon | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith - Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Conversations
Weekly: The case for Arctic geoengineering; world’s oldest cheese
Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes
Weekly: Thorin and the lost Neanderthals; Fish that use mirrors; SpaceX’s spacewalk
CultureLab: Amorina Kingdon on the grunting, growling and singing world underwater
Weekly: First living transparent mouse; lab-grown stem cells; Spy balloons
Weekly: Could mpox be the next covid-19?; Science of beat drops; Clothes made from potatoes
CultureLab: Lucy Foulkes on how adolescence shapes us
Weekly: 1 in 5 coma patients have awareness; How to end the opioid crisis; ‘Wow’ space signal…is lasers?
Anxiety Special: The science of anxiety and how to make it work for you
CultureLab: The best science TV of the year – so far.
Weekly: Deepest hole ever drilled in Earth’s mantle; Glitter on Mars; Quantum telepathy
Dead Planets Society: Can We Move the Sun?
Weekly: The first life on Earth; Banana-shaped galaxies; When is smartphone use ‘problematic’?
CultureLab: Carlo Rovelli on the link between quantum physics and world peace
Weekly: Shocking source of deep sea oxygen; Alcohol really is unhealthy; ‘Green’ plastic downsides
Dead Planets Society: Can We Burn Uranus?
Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs
CultureLab: The incredible, intelligent abilities of plants with Zoë Schlanger
Weekly: Woolly mammoth jerky; Google simulates the origin of life; food without farming
Dead Planets Society: Putting Black Holes Inside Stuff
Weekly: World’s Oldest Ritual; Quantum Wi-Fi; Report from the Arctic
CultureLab: Sonifying Mars, symphonically, with David Ibbett
Weekly: Even more powerful gene editing than CRISPR; first moon samples from the far side; dangerous new mpox
Dead Planets Society: Bringing Back Geocentrism
Weekly: Why some people never get covid-19; Chimps using herbal medicines; Largest ever Maxwell’s demon
CultureLab: The catastrophic health consequences of racism with Layal Liverpool
Weekly: Elephants have names for each other; conspiracies and doppelgangers with Naomi Klein; an ancient galactic weather report
Dead Planets Society: How Many Moons Could Earth Have?
Weekly: Why we should drill a massive hole in the moon; banning fossil fuel advertising; how to stop being lonely
CultureLab: On the hunt for alien life with Lisa Kaltenegger
Weekly: Google’s AI search problem; time is a quantum illusion; can we stop ageing?
Dead Planets Society: Removing Mars’s Iron With a Magnet
Weekly: Record hurricane season approaches; uncovering the mysteries of a rare earth metal; how to fight in Bronze Age armour
CultureLab: Emily H. Wilson celebrates the expansive world of science fiction
Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids
Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms
Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak
CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change
Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ
Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse
Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants
CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence
Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream?
Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole
Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms
CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation
Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure
Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet
Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous
CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign
Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics
Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer
Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis
CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are
Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture
Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological
Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing
CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind
Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage
Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes
Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages
CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’
Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy
Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos
Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs
CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’
Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time
Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets
Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object
CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch
Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork
Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical
Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe
Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins
Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes
CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads
Best of 2023, part 1: Euclid telescope’s big year; AI is everywhere (for better and worse); why doctors searched their poo for tiny toys
CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions
Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future
Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe
CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback
Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high
Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
Weekly: Biggest climate summit since Paris; thanking dirt for all life on Earth; what if another star flew past our solar system?
Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift
Weekly: Salt glaciers could host life on Mercury; brain cells that tell us when to eat; powerful cosmic ray hits Earth
Dead Planets Society: #11 Cube Earth Part Two
Dead Planets Society: #10 Cube Earth Part One
Weekly: Saving the trees we already have; why US men are dying younger; soap bubble lasers (pew pew pew)
CultureLab: Orbital - A love letter to Earth from the International Space Station, with Samantha Harvey
Weekly: Spinal cord stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease; half-synthetic yeast; harvesting the ocean’s heat for energy
Dead Planets Society: #9 Unify the Asteroid Belt
Weekly: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?; The ancient planet buried inside Earth; Starfish are just heads
CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts
Weekly: Security risks of ChatGPT; do other mammals go through the menopause?; record breaking quantum computer
Dead Planets Society: #8 The Worst of All Worlds
Weekly: Communicating with sleeping people; Massive marsquake; World’s smallest particle accelerator
CultureLab: Free will doesn’t exist? Robert Sapolsky’s vision to reshape society
Weekly: Most detailed map ever of the human brain; clash of the ice planets; are US spies weakening encryption for everyone?
Dead Planets Society: #7 Halve the Moon
Weekly: Big Nobels for tiny science; how Earth might make water on the Moon; the head-scratching mathematics behind your favourite puzzles
CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history
Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse?
Dead Planets Society: #6 Make Venus Earth Again
Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn
CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions
Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos
Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto
Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age
CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World
Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume
Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong
Weekly: India lands on the moon; Placenta cells could heal the heart; Mind-altering drugs and binge drinking on the rise
CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023
Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy
Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse
Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about
CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2
Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet
Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle
CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb”
Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats
Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun
Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize
CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet
Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing
Weekly: New era in gravitational astronomy; Upending stereotypes of women in hunter-gatherer societies; Orangutan beatboxing and human speech origins
Weekly: The truth behind the orca uprising; Earth enters uncharted territory; genetic treatments for unborn babies.
Weekly: Claims that secret alien technology is held in the US; link between gut bacteria and intelligence; the parasite that makes ants live longer
#199 Being Human: Lewis Dartnell on how our biology shapes our actions
#198 Giant: An opera about the legacy of the ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne and the surgeon John Hunter
#197 Ancient human Homo naledi had advanced culture; AI passes the world’s biggest Turing Test; climate change hits New York
#196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically
#195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat
#194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate
#193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink
#192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death
#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science
#190 Problems for lab-grown meat; do we need vitamin D supplements?; waking the sleeping Arctic ocean; fish sing for Eurovision
#189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors
#188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut
#187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben
#186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA
#185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans
#184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health
#183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism?
#182 3D-printing inside living organisms; what ChatGPT means for human intelligence; why insects fly towards light; carbon storage in the oceans
#181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter
#180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō
#179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth
#178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023
#177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard
#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background
#175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold
#174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science
#173 Understanding chronic health conditions; Artificial sweetener linked to heart attacks; Re-thinking galaxies; UN geoengineering report
#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health
#171 Earth’s mysterious “dark biome” and the search for life on Mars; Quantum computers; Judge Dredd predicts the future - the latest news in science
#170 How Venice is confronting climate change and adapting to the rising seas
#169 Why the US is shooting down UFOs; the science behind period cravings; saving the UK’s rivers
#168 Polar Sounds: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic
#167 Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science
#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease?
#165 Water dowsing to detect leaks; Astroforge going asteroid mining; AI discovers new bacteria-killing proteins – the latest news in science
#164 The Last of Us: the science of a fungal zombie apocalypse
#163 Antidepressants; Exoplanets; California’s megadroughts – the latest news in science
#162 How to trigger positive tipping points to tackle climate change
#161 What they don’t tell you about the climate crisis with Assaad Razzouk
#160 Rejuvenation treatments; world to breach 1.5 degrees of global heating
#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia
#158 Exxon’s 1970s predictions for climate change were super accurate
#157 Computer lawyer takes first court case; brains speed up with age
#156: What you need to know in science and culture for 2023
#155: Our five favourite New Scientist long-reads from 2022
#154: News review 2022 - stand-out moments and funniest stories
#153: Fusion breakthrough; COP15 report; Shakespeare and climate change
#152 Ancient species of human could control fire; complete brain map of fly
#151 COP15: the meeting to save life on Earth; anti-ageing properties of urine
#150 Megadrought in the US; how to move an elephant
#149 COP27 treaty emerges; a method to discover wormholes
#148 Climate action from COP27; world population reaches 8 billion
#147 The oldest yew trees in Europe – and how to save them
#146 Accelerated end to fossil fuel; double discovery on Mars
#145 COP27 climate summit preview; unexpected animal sounds
#144 Geoengineering plan to slow the melt of arctic ice
#143 Bird flu sweeps UK; secrets of the Neanderthal family
#142: We need to talk about mental health and climate change
#141 Energy threat to international security; a new form of multiplication
#140 New Scientist Live Ask-us-Anything bonus episode
#139 Gas leak impact on climate change; a new way to explain life
#138 UK government’s attack on nature; when you can’t stop laughing
#137 How to turn the shipping industry green; Enceladus passes habitability test
#136 A step towards building artificial life; solar-powered slugs
#135 The Amazon passes a tipping point; a place to live only 100 light years away
#134 Artemis moon mission; decoding the dreams of mice
#133 A treatment for food allergies; predicting earthquakes
#132 Impact of drought; monkeys using sex toys
#131 Why thinking hard tires you out; game-changing US climate bill
#130 How to reverse death; Neil Gaiman on Sandman; AlphaFold and biology’s revolution; life in the multiverse with Laura Mersini-Houghton
#129 BlueDot special: Mysteries of the universe; stories of hope and joy; growing tiny human brains; solving global problems
#128 Extreme heatwaves; China’s space station launch; covid’s effects in pregnancy; a black hole symphony
#127: Pig hearts transplanted into dead people; James Webb Space Telescope gives best-ever view of the universe; boosting wheat genetics to feed the world
#126: Are we stuck in a time loop? Legal action against climate change; covid fifth wave; time loop are we stuck?
#125: Poo transplants cure IBS; climate change shrinks the human niche; CRISPR babies; monkeypox latest
#124: Lopsided universe; solar activity affects heart health; hero rats trained for rescue missions
#123: ‘Sentient’ claim for Google AI; spacecraft spots starquakes; the rise of the mammals; hot brains
#122: The science of Top Gun; the 1.5°C climate goal is out of reach; return to the moon; hepatitis mystery
#121: Creation of artificial life; gene therapy saves children’s lives; new understanding of chronic pain
#120: DeepMind claims artificial intelligence breakthrough; searching for ancient life on Mars; Stonehenge surprise; monkeypox latest
#119: How to tackle the global food crisis; rainforest animal orchestra; George Monbiot on humanity’s biggest blight
#118: Heatwaves push limits of human tolerance; chemical computer to mimic brain; first non-human to practice medicine
#117: US threat to women’s health; saving the world with bacteria; Darwinian feminism and primate gender; invasion of the earthworms
#116: DNA from outer space; Devi Sridhar on covid lessons; climate change in an Oxford wood
#115: Quantum consciousness; next decade of space exploration; songs played on rat whiskers
#114: A message to aliens, phage therapy for acne, calibrating the world’s oldest computer
#113: Climate change: suing governments to cut emissions; shock discovery in particle physics; a new function for dreams
#112: Gene therapy success; biodiversity talks; the genetics of blood sucking; the farthest star ever seen
#111: Antarctic and Arctic record-breaking heat; octopus brains insight; black hole paradox explained
#110: Solution for Ukraine food crisis; why young blood rejuvenates; climate horror in Australia; Hannah Peel’s new music
#109: Ukraine war stokes energy crisis; emergency sounded over Amazon rainforest; secular intelligent design; mammalian virgin birth
#108: Ukraine: health crisis and threat of nuclear war; IPCC report on limits to climate adaptation; Wuhan origin of covid
#107: Ukraine invasion: cyberwar threat and effect on climate targets; Covid pandemic isn’t over; how we sense pain
#106: Saving children from cancer; new ways to remove greenhouse gases; brain growth in adults
#105: Electrodes treat paralysis; first detected isolated black hole; the ancient human inhabitants of a French cave; breakthroughs in transplant organs from pigs; why you should pick up your dog’s poo
#104: Gene variant for extreme old age, gravitational waves and dark matter, what fruit flies tell us about nature and nurture
#103: How covid affects brain function; glacier loss on Svalbard; start of the Anthropocene; hottest life on Earth
#102: Living with covid; Tonga eruption; neutral atom quantum computers; phage therapy for superbugs; AI with Beth Singler
#101: Man gets first pig heart transplant; robot therapy for mental health; omicron update; dolphin sexual pleasure
#100: New Scientist journalists pick out their scientific and cultural highlights for 2022
#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz
#98: Brain cells wired to the Matrix; omicron latest; how to make truly intelligent machines; the mysterious border between sleep and wake
#97: The latest on omicron; Don’t Look Up review; Steven Pinker on human rationality; the sound of melting glaciers
#96: What does the rise of omicron mean for us?; living robots able to reproduce; mini black holes and the end of the universe
#95: The origin of coronavirus; how red light boosts eyesight; deflecting asteroids; body chemical changes human behaviour
#94: IBM’s huge quantum computer, Russia’s anti-satellite weapon, the verdict on COP26, AI predicting the next legal highs
#93: COP26 special, week 2: voices from the Global South; what does the Glasgow Accord look like - and where does it go from here on climate action
#92: COP26 week 1 special from Glasgow; first Earthlings to go interstellar; genetically engineered microbes for our cells
#91: Earth heading for climate disaster; Kim Stanley Robinson looks to the future; hunt for aliens; Tesla worth $1 trillion
#90: COP26 climate playlist; the science of Dune; life-saving treatment for children without immune systems; covid sweeps Iran
#89: Climate-ready food of the future; the biology of poverty; deepfake audio; mystery cosmic signal; Captain Kirk in space
#88: Should climate activism go to extreme levels?; malaria vaccine; new drugs to treat covid; mission to the asteroid belt
#87: Mini black holes impacting the moon; first CRISPR gene-edited food goes on sale; why leaves turn brown in autumn
#86: The woman who couldn’t smell; solving the climate and biodiversity emergencies; China’s quantum of solace
#85: The violent frontline of climate change; bringing back the mammoth; another first for SpaceX
#84: Health benefits of male flatulence; cave dwellings on Mars; covid booster shots
#83: Low carbon shipping; Anil Seth on consciousness; humanity’s ancient history in Arabia; quantum gravity
#82: Taliban seize Afghan biometric equipment; uploading our brains to machines; investigating Nazi uranium
#81: Breakthrough in nuclear fusion; mini human brain grown with eyes; rapid evolution of synthetic bacteria
#80: Analysis of IPCC climate report; the rise of synthetic milk; discovery of new carnivorous plant
#79: Google creates a time crystal; microplastics in human placenta; boosting China’s vaccines; our climate future
#78: Will covid evolve to evade vaccines?; the oldest animal fossils ever found; predicting climate change’s extreme weather
#77: Is dropping covid restrictions unethical?; methane hints to life on Mars; Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin’s road to space
#76: Harm of race-based medicine; space tourism industry is go; America’s heatwave challenges
#75: Vaccine for kids; legacy of Dolly the sheep; how to repair the climate; China’s quantum advantage
#74: ‘Dragon man’ could be new species of human; Wally Funk goes to space; human and financial cost of heatwave; how covid affects the brain
#73: How to treat long covid; evolution of cooperation; Turing’s ACE computer; aliens watching Earth
#72: The evil in all of us; delta variant of coronavirus; glacier memory project
#71: Alzheimer’s treatment approved; human brain map breakthrough; time flowing backwards
#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap
#69: Coronavirus evolution; geoengineering and food supply; Alice Roberts on the revolution in archaeology
#68: Climate change and methane mystery; breathable liquid; covid vaccines
#67: Brain plasticity; entropy and the nature of time; vaccine booster shots
#66: Sea level rise; Bitcoin carbon pollution; how to measure self-awareness
#65: Chernobyl radiation safety; Chinese space station; wisdom of trees
#64: Earth Day rescue plan: climate change and biodiversity special
#63: Musical spider’s webs; magic mushrooms for treating depression; the sound of coronavirus
#62: Synthetic life; rescue plan for Earth; muon g-2 new physics
#61: Worse allergies; black hole in our backyard; new flavours of vanilla
#60: New physics; anti-ageing human embryos; Mars update
#59: Vaccine success; hibernation and anti-ageing; world’s first computer
#58: Covid good news; cold water swimming; quantum unreality
#57: Moon base; Neanderthal speech; Elizabeth Kolbert on geoengineering
#56: How to spend a trillion dollars; landing on Mars; exercise and metabolism myths
#55: Rescuing nature; Mars missions; new covid mutation
#54: Next-gen vaccines; alien space probes; ethics of fish
#53: Pandemic burnout; vaccines for the world; sustainable fuel
#52: Life after vaccination; gaslighting; mind reading
#51: Covid evolution; new dinosaur; missing genome data
#50: Covid vaccine dosing; superconductors; coral restoration
#49: New coronavirus variants
#48: Must-know science of 2021
#47: Christmas special quiz of the year
#46: Stardust hunting, the illusion of the self, space rocks return to Earth
#45: Vaccine roll out in UK and China; Chris Packham on connectedness; AlphaFold breakthrough
#44: When we’ll get the vaccine; fast-expanding universe; lunar missions
#43: How the covid RNA vaccine works; systemic racism; origin of humans
#42: Vaccine for covid-19; origin of animals; overpopulation
#41: The function of dreams
#40: Halloween special: real-life vampires, the science of ghosts, deep-sea zombies, monster black holes
#39: Social lives of viruses; CRISPR to fight antibiotic resistance; dealing with risk; George RR Martin and the moon
#38: Tackling the climate crisis; essential, like, filler words of, um, language; mystery of the human penis; your covid questions answered
#37: Black holes and CRISPR gene editing spring Nobel surprises; climate change and indigenous people in the Arctic; symptom clusters identified for covid-19
#36: Hunt for life on Venus and Mars; how the paleo diet affects your age; strategy for the second wave of coronavirus; species extinction crisis
#35: The first woman on the moon; evolution special; purpose of sleep and dreams; deep water mystery
#34: Race to find life on Venus; coronavirus claims lives of 1 million people; extinction crisis; how the brain slows time
#33: The healthy-eating revolution; China’s cosmic ambitions; Russia’s pursuit of gene-editing technology; the world’s greatest mammal
#32: Billionaire plan to geoengineer the planet; how the moon affects your health; Neuralink’s telepathic pigs
#31: Widening the search for alien life on habitable planets; why unconscious bias training might not work; the microbiome of cancer tumours
#30: Redefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades
#29: Loneliness during lockdown; medical artificial intelligence beats doctors; who gets the coronavirus vaccine first
#28: Origin of life on Earth; second wave of coronavirus; science of miscarriage
#27: Putting plastic back on the agenda; revisiting the iconic black hole image, how dinosaurs dominated the planet
#26: The hidden dark matter of our food; NASA’s new search for life on Mars; smallpox in the American civil war
#25: Coronavirus effects on children, and on other diseases; changing the way you sit could add years to your life; supercrops for a climate-changed world
#24: Half a year in a world of covid-19; meat production breaking Earth’s nitrogen limits; what does gravity weigh?
#23: Coronavirus immunity and vaccine implications; evolutionary reasons for the types of world leader; treating people with CRISPR gene editing
#22: Consciousness from the body as well as the brain; record temperatures in the Arctic; long-term symptoms of covid-19
#21: How to prevent future pandemics, black lives matter and racism in science, suspended animation
#20: Human cryptic mate choice, cracking nuclear fusion, countering coronavirus misinformation
#19: How the UK got it wrong on coronavirus, mystery around chronic Lyme, Greta Thunberg’s musical debut
#18: Bending the curve on climate change, the era of commercial space travel, staying safe from coronavirus
#17: The truth about our appetites, the impact of coronavirus on conservation, mud volcanoes on Mars
#16: Hints of a new force of nature; making mice with human cells; seaweed in the fight against climate change
#15: Mystery of radio signals from deep space; the future of music; epidemic of bad coronavirus science
#14: Dreams, sleep and coronavirus, a new explanation of consciousness, brain-stimulation anorexia treatment
#13: Evidence for a parallel universe, protecting mental health in lockdown, why covid-19 hits men harder
#12: Strength training for better health, bats mimic sound, biggest ever supernova
#11: Covid World, coronavirus in New York, invasion of parakeets, bacteria and their amazing powers
#10: Coronavirus questions answered, revolution in human evolution, mind-reading computers
#9: Coronavirus lockdown – how to flatten the curve, reset the immune system, and the world’s most hardcore mammal
#8: Coronavirus special – disaster preparation, environmental change and disease emergence; plus science round-up
#7: Coronavirus vaccine, neutrinos in the early universe, and organ transplants
#6: Coronavirus special - the spread of covid-19, fatality rates, and the importance of hand washing
#5: Pandemic preparations, mind-reading – and a trillion trees
#4: Lab-grown meat, Neanderthal burials, and space tourism
#3: Coronavirus latest, a woman with half a brain, and love drugs
#2: Weird quantum experiment, origin of the alphabet, and coronavirus developments
#1: Wuhan coronavirus, nuclear fusion, and the Solar Orbiter spacecraft