Show overview
Science Weekly has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 357 episodes. That works out to roughly 110 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 16 min and 20 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-GB-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 86 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The Guardian.
Episodes
357
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
17 min
Cadence
Several per week
From the publisher
Twice a week, the Guardian brings you the latest science and environment news
Latest Episodes
View all 357 episodesThe incredible science of memory manipulation
Oct 1, 202620 min
Are household cleaning products damaging our health?
Sep 29, 202617 min
Are baby girls more sociable? Super El Niño, meningitis outbreak explained
Sep 24, 202622 min
Do any diets actually work?
Sep 22, 202617 min
The week that changed maths for ever
Sep 17, 202615 min
Is collagen all hype?
Sep 15, 202618 min
Live episode: how AI is reshaping our minds
Sep 13, 20261h 22m
‘One of the biggest discoveries in science’: have scientists found dark matter?
Sep 10, 202616 min
Are rich people really worse behaved? Here’s the science
Sep 8, 202618 min
Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots
Sep 6, 202639 min
There’s a quick way to slow climate change. Why isn’t everyone doing it?
Sep 3, 202613 min
Could humans ever communicate with whales?
Sep 1, 202617 min
Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them?
Aug 27, 202616 min
Creatine: is there truth behind the hype?
Aug 25, 202615 min
It’s finally raining. Will it be enough to end the drought?
Aug 20, 202615 min
The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science
Aug 18, 202614 min
The immortal jellyfish and other mindblowing invertebrates
Aug 13, 202615 min
We’re reading less. And it’s making us stupid
Aug 11, 202619 min
Four types of thinker, the cyclosporiasis outbreak, and the UK’s biggest telescope threatened
Aug 6, 202622 min
The fight to save a historic English landscape
Aug 4, 202616 min
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