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Audio long read: Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky
May 30, 2025With the world looking likely to blow past the temperature targets laid out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a growing number of voices are saying that carbon removal technologies will be necessar...
AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth's core leaking?
May 28, 202500:33 Was a boom in papers driven by AI?A spike in papers formulaically analysing a public data set has sparked worries that AI is being used to generate low quality and potentially misleading analyse...
These malaria drugs treat the mosquitos — not the people
May 21, 202500:45 Treating mosquitoes for malariaResearchers have developed two compounds that can kill malaria-causing parasites within mosquitoes, an approach they hope could help reduce transmission of the dis...
How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van
May 14, 202500:46 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road tripResearchers have developed a portable antimatter containment device and tested it by putting it in a truck and driving it around CERN. Their s...
NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones
May 12, 2025In this Podcast Extra, we examine recent developments US National Science Foundation, which has seen significant numbers of research grants terminated. In addition, there have been freezes on funding ...
Herring population loses migration 'memory' after heavy fishing
May 07, 202500:46 How fishing activity altered the migration pattern of HerringSelective fishing of older herring has resulted in a large shift in the migration pattern of these fish, according to new research. F...
The dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?
Apr 30, 2025In this episode: 00:46 What will be left of US science after Trump 2.0?100 days into his term, President Donald Trump and his administration have already caused the biggest shakeup in modern scientif...
Audio long read: Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Apr 25, 2025Research shows that, over the past two decades, rates of mental illness have been increasing in adolescents in many countries. While some scientists point to soaring use of smartphones and social medi...
A brand-new colour created by lasers, a pig-liver transplant trial gets the green light, and a nugget-sized chunk of lab-grown meat
Apr 23, 202500:27 Five people see ‘olo’, a brand-new colourUsing a laser system to activate specific eye cells, a team has allowed five study participants to perceive a vibrant blue-greenish hue well outside the ...
‘Dark matter’, 'Big Bang' and ‘spin’: how physics terms can confuse researchers
Apr 22, 2025Categorizing things is central to science. And there are dozens of systems scientists have created to name everything from the trenches on the sea bed to the stars in the sky. But names have consequen...