The Conversation Weekly
By The Conversation
Each week we talk to academic experts around the world to help unpack the context behind the headlines – and hear from scholars carrying out brand new research about how the world works. A podcast from The Conversation.
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Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering skills
Beavers and oysters are ecosystem engineers that provide important structure for entire ecosystems -
Discovery: Secretly documenting starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
In the midst of World War II, a team of Jewish doctors secretly documented the effects of starvation on the human body when the Nazis severely limited the amount of food available in the Jewish ghetto. -
Social welfare is getting cut globally but not because governments can't afford them
We talk to experts about how the provision of social welfare services is under threat, and what actions governments may need to take to ensure better access -
Discovery: Reindeer's fascinating color-changing eyes
No bright red noses needed to guide these visually adept creatures -
James Webb Telescope reveals unexpectedly busy early universe
If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans everywhere, the world has one – the -
Changing a nation's diet
China wants more people to eat potatoes – how changing national diets could help fix our global food crisis -
Discovery: how celebrity footballers can help reduce prejudice against minorities
Part of our series of bonus episodes telling the story behind new research discoveries from around the world. -
Young people’s shifting relationship with alcohol
Why youth drinking is declining in some countries but not others -
Treating mental illness with electricity
Old ideas are being married with modern tech and understanding of the brain -
Uncharted Brain 3: the role viruses may play in Alzheimer’s
Part 3 of a series exploring the work of researchers decoding dementia