The world, the universe and us
From the evolution of intelligent life, to the mysteries of consciousness; from the threat of the climate crisis to the search for dark matter, The world, the universe and us is your essential weekly dose of science and wonder in an uncertain world. Hosted by journalists Dr Rowan Hooper and Dr Penny Sarchet and joined each week by expert scientists in the field, the show draws on New Scientist’s unparalleled depth of reporting to put the stories that matter into context. Feed your curiosity with...
Episodes (419)
Why The Iran War Is Speeding The End Of The Fossil Fuel Era
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Mathematics is Undergoing the Biggest Change in its History
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The Radical Theory That Could Force Us To Rethink Alzheimer’s
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We Now Have Early Warning Signal Of Ocean Current Collapse
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Two 'Extinct' Mammals Species Have Been Discovered in New Guinea
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How Ukraine Became a Drone Factory - and Changed Warfare Forever
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The world is running out of water - can cloud-seeding save us?; Why some people...
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How ancient humans crossed the vast ocean; Brain training for dementia; Life of...
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Why Elon Musk plans to put 1 million satellites in orbit; Should we be giving sl...
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Mini human brain grows blood vessels; The geoengineering risk of termination sho...
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The 5 worst ideas of the 21st century – and how they went wrong
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Rutger Bregman on the crisis of moral ambition; Why primates have same-sex relat...
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Why does America want Greenland?; Mystery of dark DNA; Ozempic weight rebound
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Humans are finally heading back to the moon; Cheaper weight loss drugs are comin...
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Best science TV, film and books of 2025 | The New Scientist culture review
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Top Science Stories of 2025 | The New Scientist Features Special
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Orcas and dolphins are now hunting together; Genetic root of psychiatric conditi...
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How exercise shrinks tumours and starves cancer; Weird molecules found on comet...
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The evolution of sperm and the enduring mystery of the scrotum; How our brain re...
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The origin and evolution of music: Steve Pretty plays the conch
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New genome of ancient human; 95% of us have a dormant virus that causes disease;...
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Why the claims about Hitler’s genome are misleading
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COP30: The world's climate future hinges on this meeting
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The collapse of America’s health data system; How sleep affects your focus; Life...
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How mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer; Grim state of climate action;...
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Neuroscience of reality; Quest for dark matter; Folklore of geoscience (New Scie...
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First climate tipping point triggered; Man controls another person's body by bra...
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Space 2075: How Humanity Will Live, Work and Make Drugs off-planet | Live Record...
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How Jane Goodall changed the world; How the universe ends; How “selfish sperm” a...
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Emergency in Antarctica; How movement changes the brain; Why women live longer t...
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Skull rewrites story of human evolution; Autism and Tylenol; discovery of wind c...
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The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives; the asteroid coming VERY close t...
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Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet); The Romans' impact on the British econ...
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First complete map of brain activity; Queen ant lays eggs of another species; Th...
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Scientists discovered a 100,000-year-old organism; Breakthrough brain implant us...
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Could we end winter illness?; Cold fusion’s comeback; The delicious microbiome o...
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Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel
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80 years since Hiroshima: Forgotten victims of the atomic bomb
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Ozempic and Wegovy slow down biological ageing; creation of synthetic bacterium;...
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AI wins first gold at maths Olympic games; How mitochondria are linked to sleep;...
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Scientists test engineered microbes to fight disease; Has 1.5 degrees failed?; N...
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How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster; Have we broken mathemati...
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First full genome of Ancient Egyptian sequenced; Wild killer whales offer gifts...
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Mice with two dads; perfect your sleep with science; how lizards survived dinosa...
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First skull of mysterious human ancestor; Decoding whale language; Heatwaves 20x...
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Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare foreve...
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$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between realit...
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The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth
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Are smartphones really causing mental illness in teens?; More evidence of alien...
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China’s carbon emissions fall; norovirus vaccine; chaotic breakup of the solar s...
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