{"id":22279,"date":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/exercise-and-brain-function-hedgehog-hearing-and-can-ai-change-our-minds-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:37:52","slug":"exercise-and-brain-function-hedgehog-hearing-and-can-ai-change-our-minds-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/exercise-and-brain-function-hedgehog-hearing-and-can-ai-change-our-minds-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and brain function, hedgehog hearing, and can AI change our minds? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a study that explores the link between exercise and brain health. Also on the agenda: the discovery that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound and what this could mean for their conservation, and new research examining how biased AI autocomplete tools can influence the beliefs of users.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/mar\/11\/ultrasound-repellers-hedgehogs-roads-scientists\">Ultrasound repellers could keep hedgehogs off roads, scientists hope<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support the Guardian: <a href=\"http:\/\/theguardian.com\/sciencepod\">theguardian.com\/sciencepod<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/audio\/2026\/mar\/12\/exercise-and-brain-function-hedgehog-hearing-and-can-ai-change-our-minds-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/409a3aa669c02fdc4fb09492a3be102d259fe16f\/0_0_4140_3312\/master\/4140.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e48914bcd7e6f7336d6418b7224b8ad9\" title=\"Exercise and brain function, hedgehog hearing, and can AI change our minds? \u2013 podcast\" \/>The Guardian\u2019s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a study that explores the link between exercise and brain health. Also on the agenda: the discovery that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound and what this could mean for their conservation, and new research examining how biased AI autocomplete tools can influence the beliefs of users.<br \/>\nUltrasound repellers could keep hedgehogs off roads, scientists hope<br \/>\nSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com\/sciencepod Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a study that explores the link between exercise and brain health. Also on the agenda: the discovery that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound and what this could mean for their conservation, and new research examining how &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/exercise-and-brain-function-hedgehog-hearing-and-can-ai-change-our-minds-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercise and brain function, hedgehog hearing, and can AI change our minds? \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}