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For This Way Up's last shows, presenter Simon Morton and longtime producer Richard Scott have trawled through the archives of 600 shows recorded over the past (nearly) 13 years. This week, they mark the major seismic events that occurred during
With This Way Up's last show on Saturday 7 July, presenter Simon Morton and longtime producer Richard Scott have trawled through the archives of 600 shows recorded over the past (nearly) 13 years. This week, some highlights of all the DIY stuff
This Way Up is finishing up on 7 July. This week, presenter Simon Morton and producer Richard Scott look back at some of the fascinating people they've met, including a scam-baiter, a roadkill-counter and a high-altitude garbologist.
The battle between the makers of 'natural' wines (which are ethically produced and preservative-free) and the $250 billion-dollar global wine industry is the "biggest conflict in the world of wine for a generation" says a Guardian journalist.
Critics worry a big reform of European privacy laws could have a chilling effect on free speech on the internet; the new technology we'll see in this year's FIFA World Cup; and a review of YouTube Music.
Why has China stopped taking many of our recycled plastics? We ask Bloomberg journalist Adam Minter – a man obsesed with rubbish, junkyards and the huge economies that underpin the recycling industry.
After China's restrictions, where's your recycling going to go now? BITS+BYTES: hi tech World Cup and how natural is your wine?
This week, The New York Times reported Facebook has allowed dozens of phone handset makers (including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Apple) to access personal information about its users. Peter Griffin has the latest tech news.
When you next go for a walk or a tramp, it might pay to pick up the pace a bit! A study of just over 50,000 walkers living in Britain has shown the health benefits of walking at a higher speed. Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis from the Charles Per
Walk your way to better health, and another Facebook data breach?
Wille Apple soon take on Netflix and Amazon with its own video streaming video service? Plus Mary Meeker's top tech trends for 2018 and the widespread "GDPR fatigue".
Do our eyebrows exist to stop sweat from getting in our eyes or is there something else going on? Penny Spikins and her colleagues at York University in England have been investigating.
The recesses of the human gut have become a new target for diagnosing and fighting disease.
One way of dealing with graffiti is to paint over it after it appears, but the hunt is on for a more sophisticated solution.
Graffiti detection in real time, assessing gut health with swallowed sensors, eyebrows: why you have them, and will Apple start making its own shows?
The market for consumer DNA tests is booming, but cultural psychologist Steven Heine says we've been oversold their value.
Cash-strapped people all around the world are doing online jobs that pay well under the minimum wage. Alana Semuels gives us the lowdown on the flourishing – and largely unregulated – digital employment market.
A new method of measuring pain in rats and mice could eventually help break the human dependence on opioid-based pain medication.
Polystyrene is the protective packaging material that encases many parts of our consumer lives. Packed safely and soundly within it, everything from TVs, ovens, computers and even meat arrive safely at our doors protected for our use. But it's
Recycling polystyrene, developing the next generation of non-addictive painkillers, low wage jobs in the digital economy, and are consumer genetic tests worth it?
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancer in the world. Now a University of Otago team are developing a blood test for detecting it, using genetic information produced by tumours.
We head to the Manawatu to see how the latest DNA technology, based on similar tools used by forensic scientists to catch criminals, is being used to detect spawning trout in rivers. The BioRanger device tests environmental DNA or eDNA- basical
Bits+Bytes with Peter Griffin and Emily Wang of Datacom. This week, YouTube wants a bigger slice of the streaming music pie and is taking on Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal. Plus Google and Facebook launch new cloud storage services. And Emily l
BITS+BYTES: tech:life balance and the fight against 'zombie scrolling'. Also CSI, but for fish, and could chemical bio-markers in blood mean better bowel cancer treatment and testing?
Peter Griffin beams in from Google's developer festival I/O 2018 to tell us what the tech company have got in the development pipeline. [Peter Griffin travelled to California with the assistance of Google]
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