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    Catching Chess Cheats with Data

    A cheating scandal is rocking the world of chess - and data is at its heart

  2. Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

    Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?

  3. Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms

    Calculating the benefits and risks of breast screening. Plus, patchy citizenship data.

  4. Can you fool your brain?

    Looking at the power of expectations

  5. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Why improving how we teach and think about maths could help us keep an edge over machines

  6. Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

    We investigate if people with red hair have a hidden pain-blocking superpower

  7. Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

    We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space

  8. Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

    We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.

  9. Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?

    Plus, the UK鈥檚 expensive electricity, church counts and babies in the City of London

  10. Can chocolate be better than salad?

    We investigate a nutritional conundrum 鈥� can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?

  11. Can China鈥檚 GDP data be trusted?

    Are China鈥檚 most recent figures for economic growth wrong?

  12. Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

    Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?

  13. Can big data save lives?

    With an avalanche of 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used...

  14. Cameron鈥檚 1000 jobs

    Fact-checking the Conservatives' employment claims; the price of milk; unhappy how to...

  15. Calling the shots at Wimbledon

    Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.

  16. C-sections and sharks

    Hospital births in China and whether it鈥檚 true 50% are delivered by caesarean section

  17. British Law - Made in Brussels?

    How much British law is made in Brussels - 75% as UKIP say, or 7% as Nick Clegg says?...

  18. Britain's 80,000 homeless children

    About 80,000 children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the charity...

  19. Brexit numbers

    Do the Treasury's Brexit numbers add up?

  20. Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?

    Are exports to the EU down since Brexit? Plus removing flammable building cladding.

  21. Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

    We examine a claim that the UK鈥檚 trade with the EU has increased since Brexit

  22. Breaking Climate Records

    The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures

  23. Brain Food and Bacteria

    There's not an obvious link between chocolate and Nobel prizes, but this did not stop...

  24. Brain Culture Part 3

    In a change to our usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...

  25. Brain Culture Part 2

    In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor's "Brain Culture"...

  26. Brain Culture Part 1

    In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor鈥檚 series 鈥淏rain...

  27. Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway

    Mathematician John Conway died in April as a result of Covid-19.

  28. BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week鈥檚 Wages

    Inflation can change your sex life 鈥� and pretty much everything else.

  29. BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys

    Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.

  30. BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets

    Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt

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