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Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight
Jun 18, 2025We’d like to learn more about our listeners, please help us out by filling in this short survey. In this episode: 00:45 The tiny moths that use the stars to navigateBogong moths use the stars to help...
Hundreds of physicists on a remote island: we visit the ultimate quantum party
Jun 13, 2025According to legend, physicist Werner Heisenberg formulated the mathematics behind quantum mechanics in 1925 while on a restorative trip to the remote North Sea island of Heligoland. To celebrate the ...
This stretchy neural implant grows with an axolotl's brain
Jun 11, 202500:45 A flexible neural-implant that grows with the brainResearchers have developed a soft electronic implant that can measure brain activity of amphibian embryos as they develop. Understanding the ne...
Trump wants to put humans on Mars: what scientists think of the plan
Jun 06, 2025In this Podcast Extra, we examine President Donald Trump's calls for NASA to land humans on Mars. Although the White House has proposed spending some US$1 billion in 2026 on Mars plans, critics say th...
Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron
Jun 04, 202500:45 Iron’s role in mice sex determinationIron deficiency in mice mothers can sometimes result in their offspring developing female sex organs despite having male sex genes, according to new research...
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 ...