Science Weekly

By: The Guardian
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  • Twice a week, the Guardian brings you the latest science and environment news
    © 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
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  • Drinks cans and chicken bones: will ‘technofossils’ be humanity’s lasting legacy?

    Drinks cans and chicken bones: will ‘technofossils’ be humanity’s lasting legacy?
    Feb 27 2025
    When the palaeontologists of the future search for clues to understand how we lived, what might they find? Two scientists exploring this question have suggested that ‘technofossils’ will be our lasting imprint on the Earth. To find out exactly what these are and what they could reveal about our lives, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, and from Sarah Gabbott, a professor of palaeontology at the University of Leicester and one of the scientists behind the new book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our Ultimate Legacy. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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    16 mins
  • How Trump unleashed chaos in science

    How Trump unleashed chaos in science
    Feb 25 2025
    In his first month in office the US president has thrown science in the US into chaos, delaying projects and casting the future of research funding and jobs into doubt. To understand everything that has happened in the month since he took office and what its impact could be, Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Prof Harold Varmus, a Nobel prize winner and former director of the National Institutes of Health under Bill Clinton. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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    21 mins
  • Singing mice, constipated kids and nurture beats nature: science stories of the week

    Singing mice, constipated kids and nurture beats nature: science stories of the week
    Feb 20 2025
    Science editor Ian Sample joins co-host Madeleine Finlay to discuss some of the most intriguing science stories of the week. From a concerning rise in hospital diagnoses of constipation in children, to research suggesting that the environment is far more important for ageing and longevity than our genes, and how squeaks from genetically engineered mice are providing insight into how human language may have emerged. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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    19 mins

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