That's enough for one day. Plus, extraterrestrial life? A strain of flu disappears, global social services reach historic high, insane mouse brain, deforestation in the Amazon declines (again) and upside down rhinos FTW. | Continue reading
Plus, Thailand bans smacking kids, solar canals, India's super highways, and good news on dementia in the United States, wildlife crossings in Colorado, and Finland going coal-free ahead of schedule. | Continue reading
Plus, holding vigil on Mare Crisium, the Mothers of Light, and good news on solar powered vaccine fridges, poverty in Nepal, and conservation in Kazakhstan. | Continue reading
"The villagers’ lives will become more prosperous too." Plus, young Americans are happier, great news on HIV prevention drug, the world's longest underwater tunnel, sociogenomics, and Donald Trump versus market forces. | Continue reading
Fundamental principles across different scales of reality. Plus, primordial water, super lasers, Right to Repair, and good news on childcare in Canada, vaccinations in Zimbabwe, de-mining in Cambodia, and re-wilding in New Zealand. | Continue reading
To see the web of the world, and the warp and the weft of that web. Plus, an astonishingly good year for clean energy, child marriage declines in Malaysia, poverty falling in Thailand, the return of big carnivores in Europe, and the most powerful AI biology tool ever created. | Continue reading
A planet straight out of science fiction. Plus, one year of malaria vaccines, California's MPAs are working, child mortality down in Asian countries, garden cities in the Amazon, cleaning up the Arctic, and fuel demand levels off in China. | Continue reading
"Consensual reality is significantly flawed." Plus, good news on high school graduation rates, two breakthroughs for rice-farming, labour reform in Spain, fur production plummets, and Baltics ditch Russian energy. | Continue reading
Plus, some big wins for gender rights, peak air pollution, a new fusion record, and good news on youth crime in America, forest protection in the Amazon Basin and central Africa, and plummeting emissions in Europe. | Continue reading
Not just expanding what we give, but rethinking how we give | Continue reading
Plus, vortex lances, why life is more than an engineering problem, and good news on global wage inequality, sanitation in Cambodia, conservation in Bolivia, and peak oil in China. | Continue reading
Plus, a sea of photovoltaic possibility, good news for the environment in America (seriously), global prices back to normal, 'emergent' collective memory for ants, and some Herculaneum scroll action. | Continue reading
Not everything that happened this year was terrible. | Continue reading
From the moment we started writing our guest list, everything about this season of our podcast felt different. | Continue reading
A quick spruce as we approach the end of the year | Continue reading
Plus, bioluminescent nudibranches, Lucy, an update on Moore's Law, and good news on global access to electricity, conservation in Bolivia, China's Great Green Wall, and falling oil demand. | Continue reading
Plus, the dark proteome, Arcane, a killer tip for your information diet, and good news on TB in Africa, drug overdoses in America, the restoration of Lorde Howe and a coal phase-out in Indonesia. | Continue reading
Plus, Black Myth Wukong, gardening metaphors, why Trump can't stop the energy revolution, and good news on floatovoltaics, pneumococcal vaccines, and desertification in China. | Continue reading
Time to grow up and get real | Continue reading
It's the United States gender reveal! We hope it’s a girl. Plus, an interview with Steven Pinker, global air pollutions deaths fall, EU emissions too, a massive new school feeding program for Kenya, and the Three Body Problem solved. | Continue reading
Planting the seeds of tomorrow. Plus, Europe's largest ever marine protected area, a black hole triple, good news on tuberculosis, Chinese emissions still on track for a decline, and GLP-1 drugs FTW. | Continue reading
Keeping the savoir-faire alive. Plus, elimination of malaria in Egypt, rice fortification for millions in India, the resurrection of the Tasmanian Tiger, the EU sticks to its guns on electric vehicles, and 'orbitronics'. | Continue reading
Knocking on the door of history. Plus, beating cancer, clean energy in the Global South, a new marine sanctuary in California, and parallel parking for rockets. | Continue reading
We messed up. Plus, two more diseases eliminated in two countries, great news from the IEA, green transformations in Rio and Seoul, and a new class of shape seen throughout nature. | Continue reading