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