Podcasts

Epidemiologist Matt Keeling tells us about his work on the roadmap out of lockdown, whether the models have been too pessimistic, and what it's been like producing scientific results that carry so much weight.

Francesca Scarabel may be early on in her research career, but she has already been part of the UK's emergency mathematical response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She tells us about her experience in this podcast.

Ed Hill has been working on the COVID-19 pandemic right from the start, providing government with essential epidemiological advice. Find out about his journey in this podcast.

We ask the INTEGRAL team about their innovative machine learning approaches to understanding remotely gathered images, and the significant impact these technologies can have on the world.

Hear from the epidemiologists that have been fighting the pandemic in our special podcast series.

What do you actually do when you are modelling the COVID-19 pandemic? Find out with epidemiologist Mike Tildesley in our new podcast series.

In this podcast we ask two experts to explain the models that predict how the Earth's climate will behave in the future.

We are very proud to have been invited to Living Proof, the podcast of the iconic Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge!

Mathematicians meet clinicians to challenge the NHS backlog on cardiovascular disease — find out more in this podcast!

In this podcast mathematician Cheryl Praeger and magician Will Houstoun reveal the maths and magic behind shuffling cards.

What's it like advising government on the maths behind COVID-19? Find out with epidemiologist Julia Gog in this new podcast series.

In this podcast we find out why true artificial intelligence will only become possible once machines have something that babies are born with: agency.

In this podcast we talk about magical concept of emergence and how we can model the behaviour of crowds of people.

In this podcast find out the basics of machine learning, and why time travel and immortality might be easier to achieve than human level artificial intelligence.

We talk to Chiara Marletto about a new way of looking at the physical world that may solve some of the problems physicists are currently struggling with.

How do green algae manage a perfect breaststroke even though they haven't got a brain? Enter the maths of synchronisation.

In this podcast we explore how ants have helped humans to solve some very difficult problems.

Listen to Plus editor Rachel Thomas explain herd immunity on the Guardian Weekly Science podcast.

Will we one day have digital versions of our entire body to help us make medical and life style decisions and see what medical treatments are right for us? Find out in this podcast.

Explore the connections between mathematics and music at the La La Lab exhibition.

In this podcast we explore the famous curve, talk about how to communicate science in a crisis, and explain the maths of herd immunity in one minute.

At Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday symposium we talked to Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, some of Hawking's former students, and his graduate assistant.

What's a multiverse? What's the future for intelligent life? And what happened 380,000 after the Big Bang. At Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday conference we talked to physicists David Spergel and Raphael Bousso to find out more.

On the 100th anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan being elected fellow of the Royal Society Ken Ono tells us about his work.