


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.

Ang Phurba Sherpa
A trekking guide in Nepal who donated food and supplies for the unemployed

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. 147: Cascatelli
Plus, biblical meteor explosions, a gene-editing cure for HIV, a massive announcement on coal from China, and good news on cholera in Yemen, EVs in Germany, and the largest philanthropic donation for conservation of all time.

Maxwell Chimesza
A self-taught tutor revolutionising education in Zimbabwe through WhatsApp.

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. 144: Universal Egg
Plus, fancy machines (and ghosts in machines), a cure for joyless urgency, and good news on women's rights in Somalia, drug legalization in Thailand, a clean energy transition in Spain, and waterway protections in the US.

Bala Amarasekaran
An accountant turned conservationist saving chimpanzees in Sierra Leone.

