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There are signs that aliens might be harnessing the power of stars in our galaxy to fuel their civilisations. Dyson spheres are structures that surround entire stars to absorb their energy. Although these are just hypothetical, researchers have detected hints of their existence. But aliens aren’t the only possible explanation.
Being able to freeze human brain tissue could be a game-changer for medical research. While freezing brains is easy, thawing them out without damaging the tissue is much harder. But now a method involving a cocktail of chemical ingredients seems to have solved the problem..
The largest ever ‘ecoacoustic’ survey is being conducted throughout the forests of Costa Rica. Sound recordings of various habitats, from degraded pastures to regenerating forests, are being gathered to assess the biodiversity and health of the country’s ecosystems. Hear some of the amazing soundscapes that have been captured for the survey.
Orchids may share food with their offspring. Lab experiments have shown for the first time that parent orchids may be using fungal pathways – the mycorrhizal network – to send vital sugars to seedlings that cluster around them.
Ancient Egyptians were reliant on the Nile river to transport materials used to build the world famous pyramids. But many of those pyramids are built on inhospitable, arid land, far from the Nile. So how did they get the materials there? Geoscientists may have uncovered an ancient clue.
Hosts Christie Taylor and Rowan Hooper discuss with guests Jacob Aron, Alexandra Thompson, James Dinneen and Chen Ly. To read more about these stories, visit newscientist.com.
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Korábbi epizódok
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296 - Weekly: Hints of alien life in our galaxy; freezing human brains; solving a mystery of Egypt’s pyramids Fri, 17 May 2024 - 0h
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295 - Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms Tue, 14 May 2024 - 0h
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294 - Weekly: Do sperm whales have an alphabet?; Why dark energy is so weird; US bird flu outbreak Fri, 10 May 2024 - 0h
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293 - CultureLab: Elizabeth Kolbert on what we’re missing in the fight against climate change Tue, 07 May 2024 - 0h
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292 - Weekly: Is climate change accelerating?; Anger vs heart health; New sensory organ Fri, 03 May 2024 - 0h
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291 - Dead Planets Society: A Neverending Solar Eclipse Mon, 29 Apr 2024 - 0h
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290 - Weekly: What India elections mean for climate change; why animals talk; “tree of life” for plants Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 0h
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289 - CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 0h
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288 - Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream? Fri, 19 Apr 2024 - 0h
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287 - Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole Mon, 15 Apr 2024 - 0h
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286 - Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 0h
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285 - CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation Mon, 08 Apr 2024 - 0h
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284 - Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 0h
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283 - Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet Mon, 01 Apr 2024 - 0h
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282 - Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 0h
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281 - CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign Tue, 26 Mar 2024 - 0h
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280 - Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 0h
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279 - Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 0h
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278 - Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 0h
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277 - CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 0h
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276 - Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture Fri, 08 Mar 2024 - 0h
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275 - Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological Tue, 05 Mar 2024 - 0h
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274 - Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 0h
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273 - CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind Tue, 27 Feb 2024 - 0h
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272 - Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 0h
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271 - Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 0h
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270 - Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 0h
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269 - CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 - 0h
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268 - Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 0h
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267 - Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos Tue, 06 Feb 2024 - 0h
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266 - Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 0h
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265 - CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 - 0h
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264 - Weekly: Why AI won’t take your job just yet; how sound helps fungi grow faster; chickpeas grown in moon dust for first time Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 0h
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263 - Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets Tue, 23 Jan 2024 - 0h
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262 - Weekly: Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time; fermented foods carry antibiotic resistant bugs; an impossible cosmic object Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 0h
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261 - CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch Tue, 16 Jan 2024 - 0h
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260 - Weekly: Brain regions shrink during pregnancy; oldest and largest Amazon cities discovered; corals that change their sex like clockwork Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 0h
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259 - Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical Tue, 09 Jan 2024 - 0h
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258 - Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe Fri, 05 Jan 2024 - 0h
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257 - Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins Tue, 02 Jan 2024 - 0h
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256 - Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes Fri, 29 Dec 2023 - 0h
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255 - CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads Tue, 26 Dec 2023 - 0h
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254 - Best of 2023, part 1: Euclid telescope’s big year; AI is everywhere (for better and worse); why doctors searched their poo for tiny toys Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 0h
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253 - CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions Tue, 19 Dec 2023 - 0h
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252 - Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future Sun, 17 Dec 2023 - 0h
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251 - Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 0h
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250 - CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback Tue, 12 Dec 2023 - 0h
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249 - Science of cannabis: #2 The anatomy of a high Sun, 10 Dec 2023 - 0h
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248 - Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 0h
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247 - CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 - 0h