The World, the Universe and Us

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

Strongest evidence yet for past life on Mars; 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

This breakthrough could let gay couples have biological kids

First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x more likely to happen

In this episode of "The World, the Universe and Us," Dr. Rowan Hooper and Dr. Penny Sarchet discuss a range of science news stories. They begin with the groundbreaking discovery of the first Denisovan skull, featuring an interview with journalist Mike Marshall about the skull's origins and implications for understandin...