Oct 3, 2026
When Robbie Williams announced he had been diagnosed with scurvy earlier this year, Professor Clare Collins was relieved… why?! Because he was bringing attention to a major issue arising from the use of the popular class of weight loss medications, GLP-1s. Professor Collins joins me on Shirtloads to discuss...
Sep 19, 2026
In mid-2026, a swarm of AI agents coordinated a
cyberattack on Hugging Face, a platform where machine learning
communities can collectively work to improve AI models and
capabilities. This breach happened without human supervision.
Friend of the show and science communicator Dr. Petr Lebedev brings
us up to speed on...
Sep 12, 2026
Science writer and journalist Marcus Chown returns for a shorter, more philosophical chat. When Einstein first proposed gravitational waves, atoms hadn't even been discovered, so who knows what the next century holds? We dig into the strange idea of the universe's "mathematical twin," and discuss the Standard Model of...
Sep 5, 2026
Science writer and former astrophysicist Marcus Chown
joins us to discuss the elusive graviton - the theoretical particle
behind gravity.
In this chat we dig into the four fundamental forces of
nature, why gravity is so uniquely hard to pin down, and why
detecting a graviton would require a detector larger than...
Aug 29, 2026
A bonus episode straight from the audience at Geraint Lewis' book launch for "The Shortest History of Reality." Listeners fire off some big questions: where do we sit with the 95% of the universe we can't explain? What is dark energy? Why does time feel so different experientially? Along with other questions...