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633 episodes transcribedCurrently, 60 per cent of people in the UK are overweight or obese. It’s likely that many of us would like to drop a few pounds if possible but with s...
Be it a brief power nap to help perk us up, a Sunday afternoon kip after a big lunch, or a traditional daily Spanish siesta, many of us put our heads...
Many of us listen to music or play an instrument for pleasure thanks to the unique effect it has on our emotions. But what exactly is going on in our...
Over the past several decades it’s become abundantly clear that getting a good night’s sleep is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, curre...
How do our brains help us build up a picture of the world around us? It’s a question that has both beguiled and fascinated scientists for centuries. T...
More than four in ten of us in the UK are snorers. Far from being a trivial condition, snoring can have a significant impact on our ability to sleep,...
Humans are enthralled by stories about murder. And the mysteries we tell these days – like in the Glass Onion films or TV shows like The Residence – o...
We humans spend roughly one third of our time sleeping. For the average person this adds up to around 26 years over our lifetimes. And though to the o...
It’s a little-known fact that we all have two long networks of nerves that run down either side of our necks that pass signals from our brains to all...
There’s little doubt that music is an integral part of what it means to be human. But how did it first arise, how did musical instruments and composit...
The shocking fact is that alcohol is responsible for around three times more deaths globally than any other drug combined, save for tobacco. However,...
Studies show that around one in three of us aren't getting enough sleep, and this is having a huge impact on our ability to perform at our best, both...
It’s now been more than 50 years since any human being has set foot on the Moon, but the ambition to do so again has been gathering pace over the last...
Our everyday lives are filled with sounds of all kinds – birdsong, traffic noise, the music we choose to listen to or is played in shops and restauran...
One in three people born today will develop dementia of some form in their lifetimes. Of these, around 60 per cent will suffer from Alzheimer’s diseas...
Although we can’t see them with the naked eye, the Earth is populated by vast numbers of tiny living organisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. Co...
Be it a pair of wolves that mate for life, a pod of female dolphins that hunt together, or a large colony of honeybees all working together in a hive,...
The history of the Earth is littered with dramatic events that have shaped the planet itself and the lives of the human beings who live on it in profo...
It’s commonly believed that the arts and the sciences have little in common with each other. The distinction that’s most frequently made is that the a...
When think about climate change, we may think about global temperatures escalating, extreme weather events occurring more and more and sea levels risi...
