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Escape Pod: #3 Music: the jazz swing of birdsong and the sonification of the orbits of planets
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CultureLab: Breaking space records, human bowling and a trip to the Moon with astronaut Christina Koch
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Escape Pod: #2 Alliances in matters biological, mathematical and atomical
Weekly: What’s next for science in 2024? A year of moons; weight-loss drugs; and a massive new supercomputer for Europe
Escape Pod: #1 Understanding the self-awareness of dolphins
Best of 2023, part 2: India lands on the moon; the orca uprising; birds make use of anti-bird spikes
CultureLab: The best books of 2023, from joyful escapism to sobering reads
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
CultureLab: A duet between music and the natural world with Erland Cooper’s playful compositions
Science of cannabis: #3 The weed of the future
Weekly: New climate deal at COP28; AI mathematician; a problem with the universe
CultureLab: The Royal Flying Doctors - Saving lives in the Australian outback
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Weekly: IBM’s powerful new quantum computers; climate wins and flops at COP28; our sweet partnership with honeyguide birds
CultureLab: Teaching science through cooking with Pia Sorenson’s real life ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
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Science of cannabis: #1 A long history and a seismic shift
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