Tony Onuchukwu

Ian Sample speaks to Ivan Oransky, from Retraction Watch, and hears from blogger Sholto David, who made headlines this year when he spotted mistakes in research from a leading US cancer institute

Ian Sample sits down with Chris French to explore why so many of us end up believing in what he terms ‘weird shit’, and what we can learn from understanding why we are drawn to mysterious and mystic phenomena

Ian Sample talks to Trudie Lang, professor of global health research and director of the global health network at the University of Oxford, to find out what we still need to learn in order to tackle and contain the new strain of mpox behind the latest outbreak

Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new technique that uses food colouring to make skin transparent, to the first case of bird flu in a person with no known contact with sick animals, and a study looking at premature brain ageing in young people during Covid

Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep across the brain during pregnancy. She explains what this new work reveals about how the brain is reorganised in this period, whether it could it help us better understand conditions like pre-eclampsia and postnatal depression, and why women’s brains have often been overlooked by neuroscience

Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s life-support systems. They say ocean acidification is close to critical threshold, posing a threat to marine ecosystems and global liveability. Ian Sample speaks to Prof Helen Findlay, a biological oceanographer at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, to find out why the oceans have reached this state, and whether there is anything we can do to reverse the damage.

Madeleine Finlay speaks to consultant neurologist and sleep physician Dr Guy Leschziner to find out whether sleep tech is helping or hindering our chances of getting a good night’s sleep

With less than two weeks until the US election, Madeleine Finlay speaks to climate activist and author Bill McKibben to find out what a win for Donald Trump could mean for the environment and the world’s climate goals

Biodiversity correspondent Phoebe Weston takes Madeleine Finlay through the news from the UN Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia

Madeleine Finlay speaks to climate activist and author Bill McKibben to find out what a win for Donald Trump in the US election could mean for the environment