Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon
Did the Chicxulub meteor that did for the dinosaurs have a smaller companion? Dr Uisdean Nicholson and Professor Sean Gulick talk to Vic Gill about t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease
Professor Anna Hogg joins us on today’s programme for some polar explorations, we speak to one team recalculating arctic warming estimates and anothe…
3 years, 7 months ago
Shaun The Sheep Jumps Over The Moon, Bronze Age Kissing and PPE Rubbish
ESA announce that Shaun The Sheep will fly around the moon this month aboard Artemis-1 mission. Philippe Deloo tells Gaia Vince what's in store for t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Heatwave: the consequences
The severity of last week's heatwave is changing the narrative. Gaia Vince talks to Simon Evans, deputy editor of the climate publication Carbon Brie…
3 years, 7 months ago
Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing
The Multiverse Laura Mersini-Houghton is an internationally renowned cosmologist and theoretical physicist and one of the world's leading experts on …
3 years, 8 months ago
Deep Space and the Deep Sea - 40 years of the International Whaling Moratorium.
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally in business - what further treasures will it find? Also, the origins of the International Moratorium on Wha…
3 years, 8 months ago
Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer
Gaia Vince takes you for a mosey around his year's Summer Science Exhibition, held by London's Royal Society. Along the way, PRS Sir Adrian Smith tal…
3 years, 8 months ago
10 Years of the Higgs Boson
In 1964 a theoretical physicist called Peter Higgs suggested a mechanism via which elementary particles of a new theoretical scheme could obtain mass…
3 years, 8 months ago
Engineering Around Mercury, Science Festivals, and The Rise of The Mammals
How hard is it to get to Mercury and why are we going? Also, do science festivals work? And why did mammals survive when dinosaurs died? Marnie Chest…
3 years, 8 months ago
Inside Sentience
Marnie Chesterton and guests mull over the saga of an AI engineer who believes his chatbot is sentient. Also, climate scientists propose a major leap…
3 years, 9 months ago