Science
What could near-death experiences teach us about life, death and consciousness? – podcast
Ian Sample meets Sam Parnia, an intensive care doctor and associate professor at NYU Grossman school of medicine in New York City who has spent his career exploring the boundary between life and death. He tells Ian how he believes near-death experiences can be explained and what medicine can learn from themBlack holes, but backwards: unlocking the mysteries of white holes – podcast
Ian Sample meets the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli to find out about his cutting-edge research into white holes, which are essentially time-reversed black holes. Rovelli explains why he thinks these hypothetical objects are worth exploring and reveals how they could explain one of the greatest mysteries of physics