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What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032?

Why the likelihood of planetary impact changed as asteroid 2024 YR4 approached.

• 8 mins

Could a 2% wealth tax raise 拢24bn?

Plus did trillions disappear from UK pensions? Why does the UK have a lot of old housing?

• 28 mins

What鈥檚 Trump鈥檚 problem with Canada?

Does the US subsidise Canada $200 billion a year and why does Trump call them nasty?

• 8 mins

Is one in four people in the UK disabled?

Plus, what has Canada done to Donald Trump? Is Rachel Reeves chasing the model?

• 26 mins

Trump tariffs: All about the deficits

Explaining the maths and economics of the US 鈥楲iberation Day鈥� tariffs

• 8 mins

The mistake in Trump鈥檚 tariff formula

Plus, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads

• 29 mins

How much is a human life worth?

The Price of Life author Jenny Kleeman on the cost of making and taking a life

• 8 mins

The pioneers of proof

Professor Adam Kucharski on his new book, Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty

• 8 mins

Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?

Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence

• 8 mins

Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check

Working out the reality behind President Trump鈥檚 claims on immigration, fentanyl and eggs

• 9 mins

Bonus episode: The Autism Curve

The first episode of a new 蜜芽传媒 series investigating the steep rise in autism diagnoses.

• 15 mins

Warren Buffett鈥檚 brilliant bets

How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point

• 8 mins

How dead is the internet?

We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic

• 8 mins

Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations鈥� population estimates

• 8 mins

Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims

Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?

• 9 mins

Does the average American have fewer than three friends?

Plus, skilled migrants, preventing Alzheimer鈥檚 and Robert Prevost on God and probability

• 28 mins

Is the world鈥檚 population being miscounted?

Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought

• 8 mins

How do you make something 10-times more lethal?

Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers

• 28 mins

Could you be hit by a falling satellite?

Investigating if 100,000 satellites could be orbiting earth in five years鈥� time

• 9 mins

Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?

Plus, asylum seeker hotel bill, Scottish water use and 1950s childcare claim

• 28 mins

How to spot a suspicious statistic

Professor Alex Edmans on his book, May Contain Lies

• 8 mins

Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?

Plus, nuclear enrichment numbers, Curtice on Curtis and Viking economics

• 28 mins

Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?

Making sense of the numbers around the Russian dead and wounded.

• 8 mins

Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?

Plus: PIP claims, immigrant returns and spotting golf balls on the moon.

• 28 mins

The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

Economist and author Duncan Weldon on his new book Blood and Treasure

• 8 mins

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

• 26 mins

Why Manchester United can afford to play badly

How a successful football club doesn鈥檛 always require a winning team

• 8 mins