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Your best baby
45 mins • S1, E351
Emma Haslett
Hoping for a ‘perfect’ baby? Genetic testing startups lure parents to US
Sun 8 Mar 2026
John Naughton
Make AI more like a human? It’s far too clever for that
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Sophie McBain
Michael Pollan tackles the hard problem of consciousness
Thu 5 Mar 2026
James Tapper
The maestros using new technologies to transform science
Fri 27 Feb 2026
James Tapper
Smart coating will protect greenhouses from heatwaves
Sun 22 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Big tech profited from our attention – now AI wants to monetise intentions
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Marion Coutts
The woman who mapped the Atlantic from her living room
Sun 15 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Thinking digital technology is ‘weightless’ means your head is in the clouds
Fri 13 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Call my AI agent! Chatbots can now post on their own version of Reddit
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Will Hutton
As its unicorns falter, China eyes UK’s surging tech dragons
Sun 1 Feb 2026
ChatGPT is introducing porn
37 mins • S1, E308
Marine Saint
Life sciences district could create 20,000 jobs by 2035
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Megan Nolan
The lost art of paying attention
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Robin McKie
Do we still need astronauts?
Fri 16 Jan 2026
John Naughton
The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce
Fri 16 Jan 2026
John Naughton
Tesla is being overtaken, but its shares are still in top gear
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Patrick Kidd
Michael Boulter, palaeontologist
Sat 3 Jan 2026
John Naughton
AI has a ‘provenance problem’. Here’s how to avoid it
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Paul Nurse: ‘We are putting barriers in the way of getting the most talented scientists’
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Robin McKie
Jane Goodall, remembered by Robin McKie
Fri 26 Dec 2025
Tara Joshi
The grid: Wilson Bentley’s snowflakes
Sat 20 Dec 2025
John Naughton
Why stablecoins – crypto for adults – have suddenly become a big deal
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Emily H Wilson
Man discovers fire... in Thetford
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Vanessa Drevenakova
Good vibrations could nudge our ageing brains back into a youthful groove
Fri 28 Nov 2025
James Tapper
The ‘digital bridge’ that could help the paralysed walk again
Fri 28 Nov 2025
John Naughton
Meta fought the law and the law didn’t win
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Patricia Clarke
‘I’m sorry Dave’: when AI agents go rogue
Thu 13 Nov 2025
James Tapper
James Watson, scientist who discovered the double helix
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Broken education system is holding back the young, top scientists warn PM
Sun 9 Nov 2025
John Naughton
Would you pay an AI to read your book? Authors may soon not have any choice
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Matthew Cobb
Francis Crick: The science genius with poetry in his DNA
Sat 1 Nov 2025
Laura Spinney
Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Fred Harter
A million-year-old skull from China has rewritten human evolution
Fri 17 Oct 2025
John Naughton
Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Evie Breese
Brain-training firm struggles to remember who it has worked with
Wed 15 Oct 2025
