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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

Are one in six children living through war?

A Unicef event said one in six children are living though war. What does that really mean?

• 8 mins

Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?

We investigate how much water and power are used by artificial intelligence

• 8 mins

Are abortion numbers rising in the US?

Looking at the data behind abortion in a post Dobbs America.

• 8 mins

Why it matters that Trump fired data chief

The US president fired Erika McEntarfer over job numbers. What鈥檚 the potential fallout?

• 8 mins

How weird was the Med Sea heatwave?

Did the Mediterranean experience a 1-in-216,000,000,000-year sea temperature anomaly?

• 8 mins

Do women feel the cold more than men?

We investigate if air conditioning is set too cold for women.

• 8 mins

Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?

We look at claims that fully autonomous cars are 5 or ten times safer

• 8 mins

Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?

Investigating if 100 million sharks are killed by fishing nets every year.

• 8 mins

Are Afghan nationals more likely to be convicted of sexual offences?

National debt, Afghan crime, menopause retirement and literal snail pace.

• 29 mins