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Science Weekly

Science Weekly

Alok Jha and the Guardian's science team bring you the best analysis and interviews from the worlds of science and technology.

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192 episodesEN

Show overview

Science Weekly has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 192 episodes. That works out to roughly 60 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 21 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 72 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 111 episodes published. Published by Guardian.

Episodes
192
Running
2024–2026 · 2y
Median length
18 min
Cadence
Several per week

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Alok Jha and the Guardian's science team bring you the best analysis and interviews from the worlds of science and technology.

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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 Wildlife Trusts’ fight to save a historic English landscape

Aug 4, 202616 min

Revisited: Saunas and cold plunges, where does the evidence stand?

Jul 30, 202616 min

Revisited: The surprising science of dreams and nightmares

Jul 28, 202622 min

Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode three – a bag for life

Jul 23, 202620 min

Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode two – the list

Jul 22, 202623 min

Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode one – green shoots

Jul 21, 202622 min

Can a world-first gene therapy reverse ageing?

Jul 16, 202618 min

Fungi: the invisible force protecting our planet

Jul 14, 202616 min

Is male testosterone in freefall?

Jul 9, 202614 min

‘A break from scrolling’: how Gen Z fell in love with birding

Jul 7, 202616 min

‘Beautiful blobs’: can scientists build life from scratch?

Jul 2, 202616 min

Reflecting pool algae: the science Trump needs to know

Jun 30, 202616 min

Nature or nurture: can genes shape our behaviour?

Jun 25, 202619 min

Extreme heat: is the UK becoming a 40C country?

Jun 23, 202614 min

The audacious plan to refreeze the Arctic

Jun 18, 202616 min
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