Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 10 hours 54 minutes
Wildlife recordist Chris Watson and spatial audio sound artist Prof Tony Myatt begin a three-part journey to the Sea of Cortez hunting for the song of the largest, and possibly loudest, animal that has ever lived: the blue whale
With a number of Covid-19 vaccines seemingly on the way Nicola Davis talks to Prof Eleanor Riley about how they might help the body’s defence mechanisms fight the virus
The Guardian’s UK technology editor Alex Hern speaks to Prof Andy Przybylski from the Oxford Internet Institute about pioneering new research on the impact of computer games on mental health
The second part of Ian Sample’s 2016 interview with Prof Sir Roger Penrose, which includes a quantum theory of consciousness and the age-old question of whether mathematics is invented or discovered
In this episode from 2016, the mathematician and physicist asks: has string theory become too fashionable? And do we place too much faith in quantum mechanics?
Ian Sample speaks to Prof Edgar Jones about the comparative psychological impacts of the blitz bombings of London and the Covid-19 pandemic
Linda Geddes speaks to Prof Jacky Smith about one of Covid-19’s most consistent symptoms: the persistent dry cough
Nicola Davis delves into the gruesome deaths caused by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
With any future Covid-19 vaccine requiring its manufacturing process to be signed off as part of its regulatory approval for use on the general population, Madeleine Finlay talks to Dr Stephen Morris from the Future Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub about how vaccines are made at the volume and speed required for a mass vaccination programme
Madeleine Finlay takes Science Weekly on a trip to discover what it would be like to fall into a supermassive black hole