181: Scruffy Hospitality
Plus, the largest artwork ever made, LLMs meet the robots, one of the best life advice essays ever, and good news on tropical diseases in Togo, conservation funding in the United States, a combustion engine ban in California, and puffins in Maine.
180: Pepper Shepherd
Plus, the grandmother hypothesis, digital twins, celebrating the grind, and good news on cervical cancer in Rwanda, steel emissions in China, a new Indigenous protected area in Canada, and saiga antelope in Kazakhstan.
179: The Scent of God
Plus, why the medium really is the message, a new flying car, planetary nervous systems, and good news on climate politics in the US, life expectancy in Africa, teenage pregnancy around the world, and wolves in the Alps.
178: The Dawn of Everything
Plus, exaflop computing, Neil Gaiman, Merlin Sheldrake, the Ethereum merge, and good news on poverty in Cambodia, womens rights in Kansas, global coal plant construction, and sacred groves in India.
177: The Art of Maintenance
Plus, one of the greatest scientific leaps of our lifetimes, the three pillars of happiness, opti-ox technology, and good news on hepatitis B, crime in New York, conservation in Colombia, electric vehicles in China, and tiger populations in Asia.
176: Torpor
Plus, galactic whirlpools of Eldritch horror, how technology keeps on saving us, and good news on AIDS in Botswana, a new cure for hemopholia, some surprising news about EVs in the United States, and an important win for honeybees in Europe.
174: A Message From Deep Space
Plus, three nanometre chips, the Caminho de Peabiru, Steph Curry, and good news on malaria in India, plastic legislation in California, parental leave around the world and 'a good day' for climate action in Europe.
173: Ouroborous Quine
Plus, the Aztec Pantheon, light therapy for cancer, dark skies, and good news on global fertility rates, road safety in Colombia, global offshore wind pipelines, Ferrari's electrification strategy, and a plastic ban by Canada.
172: The Kids Are Not Doomed
171: Normothermic Perfusion Machine
Plus, an insane mercenary story from Mozambique, fossil-free steel trucks, the largest ever bioreactors for lab-grown meat, and good news on trachoma in Togo, human rights in Mexico, golden lion tamarins in Brazil, and two mega ocean conservation stories
169: Nemo's Garden
168: Tabula Sapiens
Plus, our very own black hole, Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalism, a visit to the human factory, and good news on cancer in Canada, poverty in Vietnam, a global insurance giant ditching fossil fuels, and the end of greyhound racing in the US.
167: Hyperaccumulator
Plus, electric airplanes, mRNA vaccines for cancer, globalists versus patriots, and good news on diabetes, poverty in Canada, grid upgrades in the United States, and a bucketload of new funding for ocean conservation.
166: Earendel
Plus, how Alphafold is upending life sciences, the end of the end of history, the care economy, and good news on womens' rights in Indonesia, a solar power boom in the Phillipines, and the return of forests in Scotland.
165: Molecular Dissasembly Line
Plus, Gigafactory fly-throughs, knitted soup bowl monsters, the first gap-free human genome, and good news on marine conservation in Australia, one-horned rhinoceroses in Assam, and walruses in Svalbard.
164: Spider Talk
Plus, the little copter that could, grid synchronization, lorecraft, and good news on maternal and neonatal tetanus, recyclable wind turbines and spotted owls.
163: Book of Job
Plus, gyrotron-powered millimeter-wave geothermal drilling, swimming outdoors, Mali magic, and good news on clean cooking, EVs in France, and a mega donation for the Amazon.
160: Stephen Hawking's Blackboard
Plus, The Hum, the science of love, uncanny valleys and caring robots, and good news on rubella, the four day work week, gray wolves in the US, and clean energy down under.
159: Elite Mountain Rescue
Plus, micromorts, a fusion breakthrough, electric schoolbuses, TED talks, and good news on sleeping sickness, HIV in Australia, clean steel in Europe, and ocean conservation in Cuba.
158: No More Dead Butterflies
Plus, an mRNA vaccine for HIV, ten love letters to Earth, exoplanets, and good news on Guinea Worm, divorce, record clean energy investments, butterflies, and tigers.
157: Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Plus, a new kind of MRI, hiking robots, world rugby XV, and good news for the Everglades, women's rights in Pakistan and India, rewilding in Finland, and electric vehicle range anxiety.
156: Immortality on the Neck of a Giraffe
Plus, sub-eight hour genetic sequencing, grumpy old men, silicon carbide body armour, and good news on cancer in the US, children's rights in the Phillipines and fin whales in Antarctica.
155: The Birth of Lightning
Plus, sea dragons, superheated plasma, gold-coated cosmic eyes, and good news on global child mortality, girls' education in Tanzania, animal rights in Italy and a game-changing new regulation on renewables in China.
No 153: Hopepunk
Plus, phenomenal imaging resolution in a live brain, cancelling Leunig, a Glasgow half full, Mama Elephant and good news on measles, global tobacco use, prostate cancer in Canada, the Amazon of Europe and the regeneration of the Thames.
No 152: Space Tacos
Plus, ghost ancestors, the most impressive computer vision we've ever seen, good news on stroke rates, the recovery of a Saharan antelope, and conservation in the Pacific.
No 151: An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles and Stars
Plus, a guide to Glasgow, the mathematical secrets of 42, why emotions are nurture not nature, and good news on global war deaths, polio vaccine rollouts, democracy in central Asia, poaching declines in Malawi, and the return of sea turtles in Cape Verde
No 150: Primordial Compound Eye
Plus, neuroaesthetics, cancer-killing parasitic fungi, the Dionysus effect, and good news on public health in Haiti, a new global tax arrangement, energy storage, conservation in China, and the end of overfishing in the United States.
No. 149: If You Say The Word
Plus, farmscrapers, the first ever vaccine for a parasitic disease, plastic-eating enzymes, and good news on global landmine clearances, good governance in Indonesia, a coal ban in Guangdong, and the restoration of three national monuments in the United States
No. 146: E-Ute
Plus, starling murmurations, artificial kidneys, Buddhism for dogs, and good news on poverty reductions in the US, the decline of leprosy, vanishing global coal pipelines, and bandicoot recoveries in Australia.
No. 145: Fungal Intelligence
Plus, the most powerful magnetic field ever created, how a deep ocean bacteria led to a cure for brain cancer, and good news on human rights in Mexico, sanitation in India, a major divestment milestone in the US, and the recovery of tuna stocks in the Atlantic.
The Crunch No. 141: Homesick Pebble
Plus, galactic colonization, robot paramedics, Chinese rock n' roll, and good news on cancer death rates in the US, coal in the UK and Spain, tree planting in India, and a ban on salmon farming in Tierra del Fuego.
The Crunch No. 140: Between Two Breaths
Plus, a skin-growing machine, flying transformer cars, a 'green pivot' by a fossil fuels tycoon, and good news on malaria in China, a global tax agreement, LGBTQI+ rights in Canada, and conservation in the Balkans.
The Crunch No. 139: Green Vortex
Plus, moon bear rescues, Earth's heartbeat, Flüssigkeitsgekühlten Zweigang-Getriebe, and good news on human development in Bangladesh, coal pipelines in India and China, and elephant recoveries in Tanzania.
The Crunch No. 137: The Milky Way is Beautiful, and Nobody is Horny
Plus, gene-splicing algae into humans, transparent rockets, a terrible week for Big Oil, and good news on HIV/AIDS, falling prison rates in the United States, deforestation rates in Indonesia, and panthers in Florida.
Good News, 30th April 2021
A transformative decade for clean energy in the US, big news on coal in Poland, a new malaria vaccine in Burkina Faso, Gambia eliminates trachoma, a historic milestone for indigenous land rights in Peru, and two islands restored in Hawaii and the Caribbean.
Good News, 12th March 2021
Malaria wins in El Salvador, progress on hepatitis C in Egypt, declining cancer deaths in Europe, a huge market signal for plant-based meats, an important victory for climate activists in the UK, and an inspiring conservation story from Italy.