Cockatoos and the Power of the Beat
Rhythm is everywhere in the biological world. The rhythm of heartbeat, the rhythm of breathing, the rhythm of gait and walking. In fact, in 'The Desce...
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Becky Ripley and Emily Knight answer some of life’s big questions by looking to the natural world… Science meets storytelling with a philosophical twist.
Frozen Frogs and Preserved People
Becky Ripley and Emily Knight look to the freeze-thaw abilities of the North American wood frog to ask whether we can freeze ourselves in order to ret...
Great Tits and Group Think
You may think 'culture' is one of those peculiar things unique to humans, like dancing to pop music or yelling at the TV. But you'd be wrong. Animals ...
Lazy Ants and the Power of Doing Nothing
We've all seen the Attenborough documentaries, full of the hurrying and scurrying of life on earth, the drama constantly unfolding. The natural world ...
Rivers and the Rights of Nature
Becky Ripley and Emily Knight ask whether giving legal rights to things like rivers and forests changes how we think about the world that lives around...
Screaming Marmots and the Sound of Fear
Why are some sounds more frightening than others? Are there evolutionary origins behind the things we find scary? And is there anything more blood-cur...
Mongooses and the Magic of Trust
As our global society becomes ever more mobile, with people migrating across borders and making new homes among strangers, how do we figure out how to...
Cuckoo Chicks and the Supernormal Stimulus
Why do we want the things we want? What really drives us? And how in control of our instincts are we? All questions you might ask the humble cuckoo. T...
Bull Elephants and the Importance of Dads
Becky Ripley and Emily Knight get to grips with fatherhood in the animal kingdom by way of the largest land animal on earth, a fully grown bull elepha...
Octopuses and the Mind-Body Problem
What is this thing we call "consciousness"? It feels like a non-physical thing that somehow exists as a separate entity to our physical body. We might...