The world, the universe and us

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