The Conversation Weekly
By The Conversation
A show for curious minds. Join us each week as academic experts tell us about the fascinating discoveries they're making to understand the world, and the big questions they’re still trying to answer. A podcast from The Conversation, hosted by Gemma Ware.
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Latest episode
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Why unprecedented drought in the Amazon is so dangerous for the planet
A severe drought in Amazon threatens to unlock huge stores of carbon. -
Genocide: the history of the term and what it means under international law
Amid accusations of genocide in Israel and Gaza, a genocide expert on what the term actually means. -
Brandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant consumerism
Subvertising campaigns are often funny, but they also aim to make a wider point about the unsustainable excesses of consumerism. -
Antibiotic resistance: microbiologists turn to new technologies in the hunt for solutions
The microbiologists working on the frontlines against antibiotic resistance. -
After Morocco's earthquake, artisans in Marrakech’s old medina face an uncertain future
Restoring a centuries-old city after an earthquake. -
The wildfires that led to mass extinction. A warning from California's Ice Age history
How humans, a warming climate and wildfire led to the extinction of California's big mammals 13,000 years ago. -
When domicide razed my city: a view from Homs in Syria
What the deliberate destruction of homes does to those displaced by conflict. -
Don't Call Me Resilient: why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?
An episode of our sister podcast on race and right wing politics in the United States -
Quantum dots: Louis Brus on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
Louis Brus, one of the 2023 Nobel laureates for chemistry, on how discovery was just an accident. -
Neanderthals: what their extinction could tell us about Homo Sapiens
How a recent discovery is challenging what we knew about Neanderthals – we speak to the archaeologist behind it.
