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.

How can we all get back to work safely in the face of a lingering pandemic?

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 we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.

In this article we explores one of Leonhard Euler's most famous results.

A new way of looking at the physical world promises to shed light on some of the problems physics as we know it can't deal with.

We explore some problems physics as we know it has trouble dealing with and a new theory that may provide answers.

Information is supremely powerful, yet it can't be described by traditional physics. Constructor theory provides a potential answer.

Acknowledging that life is going to go on for a little while yet throws a different light on how we make decisions in a crisis.

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

New episodes of Pointless, the addictive TV quiz show, return today! Celebrate with John Haigh and some fascinating Pointless maths!