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All the news and science from the 2024 Nobel prizes
Oct 09, 2024With awards for the discovery of microRNA and the creation of new proteins, plus recognition for artificial intelligence via the physics and chemistry prizes, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian ...
Could AI help fight conspiracy theories?
Oct 08, 2024We’re used to hearing about the power of artificial intelligence to spread misinformation – but could it also be a tool for persuading people of the truth? Ian Sample speaks to Thomas Costello, an ass...
Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn
Oct 03, 2024Madeleine Finlay is joined by Ian Sample, the Guardian’s science editor and Science Weekly co-host, to answer the questions we are all asking about Covid this autumn, from what is going on with the ne...
End of an era: Britain finally says goodbye to coal
Sep 30, 2024Just before Britain’s last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, powered down for the final time, Madeleine Finlay travelled to Nottinghamshire with energy correspondent Jillian Ambrose for a l...
Is the ocean becoming too acidic to sustain life?
Sep 26, 2024Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s lif...
Are the world’s oldest people really that old?
Sep 24, 2024Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has just won an Ig Nobel prize – given to scientific research ...
Live episode: will AI make a good companion?
Sep 21, 2024In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion? AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult probl...
The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters
Sep 19, 2024Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep acros...
From dementia to heart disease: could weight-loss jabs transform chronic conditions?
Sep 17, 2024They were developed as diabetes drugs, then their potential for promoting significant weight loss became apparent. And now study after study seems to suggest that drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy coul...
Transparent skin, bird flu, and why girls’ brains aged during Covid: the week in science
Sep 12, 2024Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new technique that uses food colouring to make skin transparent, to th...