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Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.
Anthropologist Alex Bentley tells The Conversation Weekly about his research how modelling the spread of COVID sparked new research on the spread of...
From sails, to route optimisation and alternative fules, Daniel Precioso and Alice Larkin talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about strategies to...
Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Researcher Japhy Wilson tells The Conversation Weekly podcast the surreal story of what happened in one Peruvian city in the Amazon jungle during the...
Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the complicated legacy of the Taung...
The final part of our Scam Factories podcast series, tracks how people escape from Southeast Asia’s brutal scamming compounds.
The second episode of Scam Factories, a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
The first part of Scam Factories, a three part podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
Development economist Jostein Hauge talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the winners and losers from tariffs and protectionism.
The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to Robert Gehl, an expert on alternative social media platforms, about decentralised social media.
Quantum computing expert Daniel Lidar explains what problems scientists are still trying to overcome to make quantum computing useful.
Paleoecologist Emily Lindsey on the wildfires that led to mass extinction during California’s Ice Age. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
Political theorist Elke Schwarz talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast on her new research about venture capital investment into defence start-ups.
Plastic waste expert Mark Miodowonik explains the history of plastic and why he believes manufacturers must be responsible for making sure plastic is...
Zimbabwe is on the cusp of abolishing the death penalty after its Death Penalty Abolition Bill was approved by the Senate on December 12. The bill...
Surveys suggest that in many western democracies, political trust is at rock bottom. Scandals, corruption, faltering economies, conspiracy theories...
It was a story that pulled at the heartstrings. In 2018, an orca called Tahlequah was seen dragging the corpse of her newborn baby calf for 17...
Amazon workers in 20 countries are expected to strike or protest on Black Friday, pushing the company to respect their rights and commit to more...
On November 24 1974, renowned American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson spotted “a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy” poking out of a rocky...
For generations, cod fishing was a way of life in Newfoundland and Labrador, the easternmost province in Canada. But in 1992, after cod stocks in...
What happens when a gangster leaves their life on the street? How do they transition to something new? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly...
Amid deep political polarization and extreme campaign rhetoric, the U.S. presidential election on November 5 is likely to be decided by a small...
Take a walk along a beach in parts of South Australia, and you may come across unusual patches of pink sand. When a team of geologists began...
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological...
The Middle East is perilously close to all-out war. In the year since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, millions of people have been...
A new drug to prevent HIV infection is showing hugely promising results in clinical trials when injected every six months. In this episode of The...
In 2018, the Australian philosopher Kate Manne coined the word “himpathy” to describe what she called “the inappropriate and disproportionate...
The only known specimens of Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a species of cycad, are all clones of the same male plant found over 100 years ago in...
An epidemic of mpox in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is spreading quickly, particularly among young children. At least 20,000...
Dating apps are having a rocky moment. In February, Bumble said it would lay off 30% of its workforce after disappointing results in 2023. Match...
One technique involves releasing particles of sulphur dioxide high up in the stratosphere. Another involves trying to brighten the clouds over the...
With global temperature records broken for months on end, and the severity of extreme weather events routinely attributed to climate change, you...
Momentum is growing against clauses in investment treaties that permit companies to sue a state if it decides to keep fossil fuels in the ground....