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Prisoners in a yard at a maximum security prison in Zimbabwe.
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Death penalty: how Zimbabwe reached the point of abolition – podcast

Donald Trump and Joe Biden meet in the White House.
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Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy – podcast

As Amazon workers prepare to strike on Black Friday, the story of one warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise – podcast
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Amazon workers hold up a banner saying 'We demand the right to unionise'
From grieving orcas to opposums playing dead: how animals respond to death – podcast
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A baby orca among family.
Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy, it’s time to ‘decolonise paleoanthropology’ says leading Ethiopian fossil expert – podcast
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Close-up of a man holdiing a replica of an ancient hominin skull.
Why Canada’s decision to lift a ban on cod fishing in Newfoundland after 32 years is so controversial – podcast
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A fisherman fillets a cod.
Victor Ambros walking into a room with his wife Rosalind Lee
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Victor Ambros on the team effort behind his Nobel-prize winning discovery of microRNA – podcast

A clinician holds a vial of a drug called lenacapavir
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HIV prevention: why a new injectable drug could be such a breakthrough – podcast

Stories of gangsters who’ve left their life on the streets behind – podcast
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A photo of a man in a farm holding some plants.
Fear, hope and the economy: what is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for – podcast
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Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
How we solved the mystery of the pink sand on South Australia’s beaches – podcast
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Pink sand on a beach near Adelaide.
What Israel and its neighbours want now as all-out war looms in the Middle East – podcast
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Smoke rising from an Israeli airstrike on Beirut

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Know your place: what happened to class in British politics

Nigel Farage speaking.
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Nigel Farage, AI and the revolt of the squeezed middle: class politics is about to get messier than ever – Know Your Place part 5

When did class stop predicting who people vote for in Britain? Know Your Place part 1
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Boris Johnson stands in front of a blow-up version of himself.
Thatcher, Blair and a brief history of class in British politics – Know Your Place part 2
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Tony and Cherie Blair shake hands of supportes outside Downing Street.
What does class mean today in Britain? Know Your Place part 3
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A man on his phone in an alleyway, next to two delivery cyclists taking a break on their phones.
Does Britain have a working-class parliament? What Labour’s election win means for representation – Know Your Place part 4
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Angela Rayner swearing on a bible in the House of Commons.
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A woman holds her son who has mpox.
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Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result – podcast

The emotional toll of dating apps and why they’re no longer about finding love – podcast
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A woman swiping on her phone.
Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual misconduct – podcast
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Donald Trump in the lobby of Trump tower.
A lonely and ancient plant needs a female partner and researchers are using drones and AI to find it – podcast
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Aerial map in multiple colours of the Ngoye Forest taken with drones.
Sharing that moment: can collective experiences bring people closer together? Podcast
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Four people sitting on sofa watching TV.
Iceberg in Arctic melting
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Geoengineering: the scientists who argue modifying the climate could buy the world time – podcast

Sun and clouds in an orange sky.
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Solar geoengineering: the risks and distractions of trying to reflect sunlight to cool the Earth – podcast

Disassembled components of the FGC-9 shadow gun.
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Who designed the FGC-9? Unmasking the man behind the world’s most popular 3D-printed gun – podcast

A woman holds up a sign that says Exit the Energy Charter Treaty.
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Fightback gains pace against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countries over climate action – podcast

Scientists can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding – why this matters so much for our understanding of the cosmos
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A picture from the James Webb Space Telescope of galaxies.
Busy soundscapes of seagrass meadows and the animals that live there revealed in new recordings – podcast
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Busy soundscapes of seagrass meadows and the animals that live there revealed in new recordings – podcast
Chronic pain: emerging treatment options for patients after the opioid crisis – podcast
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Man with back pain stretches at desk
Assisted dying: Canada grapples with plans to extend euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness
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A doctor with a clipboard holds the hand of a patient on a bed.
Illustration of jazz saxophonist.
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Creative flow: what’s going on inside the brain when everything just clicks – podcast

Computer science culture often means anybody’s data is fair game to feed the AI algorithm – but artists are fighting back
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Sharing that moment: can collective experiences bring people closer together? Podcast
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Four people sitting on sofa watching TV.
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Does magic really exist? The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast

Can chameleons change colour in their sleep?
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A chameleon.
If an asteroid hit Earth and all the humans died, would the dinosaurs come back?
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Illustration of a tyrannosaurus.
Why is my dog so cute?
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A puppy and a little girl.
Do whales sneeze?
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A humpback whale breaching.
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What happened to Nelson Mandela's South Africa?

What happened to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa? A new podcast series marks 30 years of post-apartheid democracy

Thabo Leshilo, The Conversation

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A man wearing a suit and tie raises his right hand to take an oath, wtacxhed by a male judge.
Part 1: After the euphoria of Nelson Mandela’s election, what happened next
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A grey-haired and smiling man wearing a loose long-sleeved shirt holds a piece of paper above a ballot box, while other people stand around him
Part 2: South Africans tasted the fruits of freedom and then corruption snatched them away
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Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma
Part 3: Persisting inequality has made many young South Africans question the choices made by Nelson Mandela – podcast
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Two young men wearing graduation gowns lead protesters carrying placards saying 'We are young and capable'.
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Great Mysteries of Physics

Many clocks overlapping.
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Part 1: is time an illusion?

Part two: is the universe fine-tuned for life?
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Cartwheel Galaxy.
Part three: is there a multiverse?
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The microwave sky as seen by the Planck satellite.
Part four: does objective reality exist?
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Woman closing eyes in street.
Part five: do we really need a theory of everything?
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The LHC at Cern.
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Inside the Oslo Accords

Inside the Oslo accords: a new podcast series marks 30 years since Israel-Palestine secret peace negotiations
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Inside the Oslo accords: a new podcast series marks 30 years since Israel-Palestine secret peace negotiations
Jan Egeland remembers the secret negotiations that led to the Oslo accords – podcast
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Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat, right, pose holding t-shirts that say seeds of peace.
Hanan Ashrawi and Yossi Beilin on what happened after the Oslo accords handshake – podcast
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James Baker, Faisal Husseini, Zakaria Al-Agha, Sari Nusseibah and Hanan Ashrawi
Israel-Palestine: the legacy of Oslo and the future of a two-state solution – podcast
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Tower blocks on a hill show the West Bank settlement of Modiin Ilit
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Unchartered Brain: decoding dementia

An image of a brain scan.

Unlocking new clues to how dementia and Alzheimer’s work in the brain – Uncharted Brain podcast series

How a study which began just after the end of the second world war is discovering clues to Alzheimer’s
A man playing with a puzzle in the shape of the brain.
Families of athletes with dementia linked to brain trauma on watching somebody you love disappear
American football players collide on the pitch.
Do viruses play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s?
Negatively-stained transmission electron micrograph of numerous herpes simplex virions

Stories behind research

A hospital monitor showing body signals.
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Interoception: the sixth sense we use to read hidden signals from our body – podcast

Breakthroughs and setbacks on the hunt for a universal snakebite antivenom – podcast
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A cobra with its mouth open.
Female lifestyle influencers are changing the face of the far right
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Women recording YouTube video.
Why some descendants of Holocaust survivors choose to replicate a loved one’s Auschwitz tattoo – podcast
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A woman in a black shirt holds up her arm on which there is a tattooed number.
As we dream, we can listen in on the waking world – podcast
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Illustration of a person in a surreal dreamlike state.

Climate Fight: the world's biggest negotiation

Promotional artwork for Climate Fight podcast series

Climate fight: the world’s biggest negotiation

Jack Marley, The Conversation

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Expert guide to conspiracy theories

How to spot a conspiracy theory – Expert guide to conspiracy theories part one
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Part 1: How to spot a conspiracy theory

Part two: Who believes in conspiracy theories and why?
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Who believes in conspiracy theories and why? Listen to part two of our expert guide
Part three: A short history of conspiracy theories
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A short history of conspiracy theories – listen to part three of our expert guide
Part four: How conspiracy theories spread
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How conspiracy theories spread – listen to part four of our expert guide
Part five: How dangerous are conspiracy theories?
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How dangerous are conspiracy theories? Listen to part five of our expert guide
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Death penalty: how Zimbabwe reached the point of abolition – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

Death penalty: how Zimbabwe reached the point of abolition – podcast
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Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy – podcast
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Nigel Farage, AI and the revolt of the squeezed middle: class politics is about to get messier than ever

Laura Hood, The Conversation

Nigel Farage, AI and the revolt of the squeezed middle: class politics is about to get messier than ever
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From grieving orcas to opposums playing dead: how animals respond to death – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

From grieving orcas to opposums playing dead: how animals respond to death – podcast
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Finland managed to halve its suicide rate – here’s how it happened

Leah Prencipe, Leiden University; Marieke Liem, Leiden University, and Sami Pirkola, Tampere University

Finland managed to halve its suicide rate – here’s how it happened
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The emotional toll of dating apps and why they’re no longer about finding love – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation

The emotional toll of dating apps and why they’re no longer about finding love – podcast