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In this episode we discuss a recent Nature exclusive investigating an international constellation of sham academies and societies that have successfully misled some of the world’s leading scientists and universities.Nature: Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star ...  Show more

In this episode:00:45 The Nobel Prizes 2026Nature: Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with lightNature: ‘What took them so long?’ This year’s medicine Nobel winner is overdueNature: Nobel physics prize awarded for detection of cosmic neutrinosNature: ...  Show more

Materials scientists are getting creative in the quest to quiet our increasingly noisy world. Using metamaterials - man made materials with special properties not found in nature - researchers could soon reduce or eliminate unwanted industrial sounds. Hosted by Simplecast, an Ads ...  Show more

Researchers in Korea claim they’ve identified a material that could unlock a technological revolution: the room temperature superconductor. Material scientists are skeptical, but enthusiasts on Twitter are enthusiastic. Why is the internet so excited about superconductors?

Timestamps: 0:00 they whisper the tech news to me 0:08 GPD Win 5 - Ryzen AI Max+ 395 handheld 1:52 MSI Claw 8 Plus AV2M (Intel Lunar Lake) performance boost 2:40 AMD desktop CPU market share record 3:10 US government considering stake in Intel 4:15 Squarespace! 5:03 QUICK BITS IN ...  Show more

Tech Life explores the chips found in everyday tech, and why governments are competing to make them. We hear how scientists in New Zealand are turning underground broadband cables into a source of earthquake detection. Also in this programme how simulation tech is helping a South ...  Show more