Science Weekly

The Guardian

Podcast

Episodes

Latest Episodes

Are cold and wet UK summers here to stay?

6/13/2024 • 15 min

Here in the UK talking about the weather is already a national pastime, but this month the water-cooler weather chat has ramped up a notch as rain, grey skies and biting temperatures have put summer firmly on hold. Ian Sample talks to Matt Patterson, a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, to find out what… Play episode

Slaughter-free sausages: is lab-grown meat the future?
Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now?
Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will tea…
Election risks, safety summits and Scarlett Johansson: the week in AI
Concrete without CO2: can our biggest building material go green?
Why is air turbulence getting worse?
In their prime: how trillions of cicadas pop up right on time
AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science?
Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive?
How much protein is too much?
Why are the world’s cities sinking?
The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines
The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off th…
From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic?
Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity?
Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead?
Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world
The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won
Remembering physicist Peter Higgs
Horny tortoises and solar mysteries: what scientists can learn from a tota…
The science of ‘weird shit’: why we believe in fate, ghosts and conspiracy…
Hypermobility: a blessing or a curse?
The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS
What could a severe solar storm do to Earth, and are we prepared?
Havana syndrome: will we ever understand what happened?
Should forests have rights?
A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in …
Why do we lose our hair as we age, and what can we do about it? – podcast
What’s behind the rapid rise of cancer in the under-50s?
Classic older child? What the science says about birth order and personali…
The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue
The debilitating impact of tinnitus, and how a new app could help
How green are electric cars?
Mistakes, fakes, and a giant rat penis: why are so many science papers bei…
Nitazenes and xylazine: what’s behind the rise of dangerous synthetic drug…
What apes can tell us about the origins of teasing
Retinol, acids and serums for kids? A dermatologist’s guide to age appropr…
Why are we still waiting for a male contraceptive pill?
What happens now bird flu has reached the Antarctic?
A fasting prime minister and a mind-reading billionaire: the week in scien…
Secrets of the microbiome: the skin
Secrets of the microbiome: the vagina
Secrets of the microbiome: the gut
How to stop doomscrolling and reclaim your brain
Is guilt-free flying on the horizon?
Our science predictions for 2024
What the science says about how to get active (and make it stick)
Revisited: Weight of the world, the climate scientists who hold out hope
Weight of the world revisited: the climate scientists who copped it

Science Weekly RSS Feed

Share: Twitter • Facebook • Embed

Copy embed code: