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Sep 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Tony Onuchukwu |Ian Sample
Ian 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 the first case of bird flu in a person with no known contact with sick animals, and a study looking at premature brain ageing in young people during Covid How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Joel Cox |Ian Sample
Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a glimpse of a black hole awakening, to a new blood test that can detect Parkinson’s seven years before symptoms appear, and a study exploring how some people manage to avoid Covid infection How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Joel Cox |Ian Sample
Ian Sample hears from Linda Geddes about her recent trip to the Netherlands to try cultivated meat sausages, courtesy of the company Meatable. Advocates say that cultivated meat could be the future of sustainable and ethical meat production.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Tony Onuchukwu |Ian Sample
A court in the Philippines has banned the commercial growth of golden rice, a genetically modified rice which was created to help tackle vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. It’s just the latest twist in a long and controversial journey for this rice.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Tony Onuchukwu |Ian Sample
Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games – set to take place in 2025 – is a sporting event with a difference: athletes will be allowed to dope.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Tony Onuchukwu |Ian Sample
Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games, set to take place in 2025, is a sporting event with a difference; athletes will be allowed to dope.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Tony Onuchukwu |Ian Sample
Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new theory challenging the existence of dark matter to an alarming study about the possible impact of microplastics on our health and a glimpse of a ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ deep in space How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Tony Onuchukwu |Ian Sample
Ian Sample speaks to the Guardian’s health editor, Andrew Gregory, about the worrying global rise in cancers in under-50s, and hears from Yin Cao, an associate professor in surgery and medicine at Washington University in St Louis, who is part of a team conducting a huge study into why young people are developing bowel cancer at record rates How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Joel Cox |Ian Sample
The moment scientists had been dreading arrived late last year, when H5N1, or bird flu, was found for the first time in the Antarctic. Last week a king penguin on the island of South Georgia became the first in the region to be suspected to have died from the disease.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample with |Tony Onuchukwu |Ian Sample
Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss the big science stories of the week – from news that Elon Musk’s Neuralink has implanted its first chip into a human, to research suggesting Alzheimer’s can pass between humans in rare medical accidents, and the revelation that Rishi Sunak begins each week with a 36-hour fast How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
