The award winning Science Weekly is the best place to learn about the big discoveries and debates in biology, chemistry, physics, and sometimes even maths. From the Guardian science desk Ian Sample, Hannah Devlin & Nicola Davis meet the great thinkers and doers in science and technology. Science has never sounded so good! We'd love to hear what you think, so get in touch via @guardianaudio or podcasts@theguardian.com
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Jul121 day agoIn an age where Google sees trillions of searches a year, what can our usage of it reveal? How accurate are these ‘big data’ representations? And how might this all be used for the greater good?
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Jul061 week agoIan Sample delves into our evolutionary past to explore the role creativity and collaboration may have played in early human societies
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Jun282 weeks agoHannah Devlin sits down with experimental physicist Athene Donald to explore her work in polymers and role as an advocate for gender equality in science
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Jun213 weeks agoIan Sample explores research on cellular senescence and the role this therapeutic approach can play in age-related diseases and health issues
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Jun164 weeks agoHannah Devlin delves into the world of human faces and asks: how does the brain process them? And how do faces affect our ideas about people?
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Jun111 month agoNicola Davis speaks with two scientists about their respective missions to the sun - what burning questions do they hope to answer? And what are some of the obstacles?
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Jun041 month agoThis week, Nicola Davis sits down with mathematical physicist Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf to discuss The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
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May282 months agoHannah Devlin looks at a genome study that may explain the spread of bell-shaped pottery beakers across Europe 4,500 years ago
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May212 months agoNicola Davis investigates what makes graphene the ‘wonder material’ and whether it can bring commercial success to the UK
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May142 months agoAlzheimer’s disease affects millions of people worldwide. But despite decades of research costing hundreds of millions of dollars, we have no cure. Why?
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May032 months agoErica - the world’s ‘most beautiful and intelligent’ android - responds to people’s questions about her memories, superintelligence, and the future of humanity
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Apr273 months agoRecorded in front of a live audience as part of our Brainwaves series, Ian Sample asks a group of experts how AI will change our social landscape - for better or worse
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Apr203 months agoHannah Devlin explores the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, which aims to use lasers to propel spherical sails to Alpha Centauri - our closest star system - over four light years away
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Apr133 months agoIan Sample and Nicola Davis delve into the world of reason and ask why do we have it? How does it work? And what insights might our evolutionary past provide?
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Apr113 months agoWhat can we see when we’re born? How does this develop with time? And how can our culture and language affect the way we perceive the world around us?
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Apr053 months agoNicola Davis asks theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and science communicator Professor Lawrence Krauss about the secrets of the universe
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Mar284 months agoIan Sample and bioarchaeologist Brenna Hassett explore the history of our relationship with an urban lifestyle – the good, the bad, and the ugly
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Mar224 months agoHannah Devlin looks at recent advances in the field of cryopreservation and asks how close we are to applying these technologies to whole organs
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Mar154 months agoTo celebrate the announcement of the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize shortlist, Hannah Devlin asks three of its featured authors about the secrets to writing a successful science book
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Mar084 months agoThe extended evolutionary synthesis is controversially proposed as an update to evolutionary theory as we know it. Nicola Davis explores the arguments