2025-06-20
36 分钟Welcome to The World, the Universe and Us, the weekly news podcast from New Scientist.
I'm Dr Rowan Hooper.
And I'm Dr Penny Sarche.
On today's show, we have a breakthrough in our understanding of whale language.
That's not actually someone running a comb down the edge of a table.
Or someone having a wee.
That is a sperm whale communicating, probably saying to subscribe to the podcast.
Definitely saying that, yeah.
We also have an analysis of the record heat waves many of us are currently experiencing.
And we hear about the medical miracle that is organ transplantation from Dr. Rachel Clark,
who has just won the Women's Prize for Nonfiction for her new book.
But we start with the first skull of an ancient human ancestor.
Yeah, here it is.
It's a big week for ancient ancestor news.
This is the first time we've seen a skull of this very mysterious species of ancient human that we call the Denisovans.
never had a skull before, only a finger and a bit of jawbone.
So it's huge.
This is huge.
Yeah, this is so exciting.
I didn't realise this was about to drop.