Babbage from The Economist (subscriber edition)
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Episodes
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Sep 9, 2015 • 11min
Babbage: What lies beneath
Radar scans reveal an enormous site of underground stone monoliths near Stonehenge and subterranean plant seed banks could save harvests and lives in the face of climate change
Sep 2, 2015 • 12min
Babbage: Inspectors' gadgets
New technology used by nuclear weapons inspectors and 3D printing buildings on Earth and in outer space
Aug 26, 2015 • 11min
Babbage: The microbes in our midst
Scientists say a universal flu vaccine is on the horizon and a new study unearths the thousands of bacteria and fungi in our homes
Aug 19, 2015 • 14min
Babbage: Climate's wild child
A new technique makes editing the human genome much easier and this year's El Niño, a disrupting climate phenomenon, could be the strongest ever
Aug 12, 2015 • 11min
Babbage: Thinking with your tentacles
The secret to the intelligence of the octopus lies in its genome and scientists explore how big data disrupts the principle of anonymity
Aug 5, 2015 • 11min
Babbage: Notes from the oeno files
Fine wine is priced by using artificial intelligence and President Obama announces new rules to reduce carbon emissions
Jul 29, 2015 • 12min
Babbage: Sunset and sunrise in the Kuiper belt
Scientists fit living cells with lasers to track what they get up to and New Horizons gets a stunning final look back at Pluto
Jul 22, 2015 • 13min
Babbage: The Jodie Foster moment
Clinical trials for drugs are not as closely scrutinised as they should be and a Russian billionaire is on the hunt for extraterrestrials
Jul 15, 2015 • 11min
Babbage: Atomic vision
Hackers threaten the "internet of things", and scientists use atomic microscopes to observe and control chemical reactions in real time
Jul 8, 2015 • 9min
Babbage: Hacking the hackers
The Hacking Team gets hacked, exposing alleged illegal activities, and NASA's New Horizons probe flickers back to life as it approaches the planetoid Pluto
