Podcast Episodes

Predicting Long Covid, and the Global Toll of Antimicrobial Resistance

Prof Onur Boyman, Director of department of Immunology at University Hospital, Zurich, this week published a paper in the journal Nature Communicatio…

4 years, 2 months ago

The 'perfect' depth for a destructive eruption

Why was the blast from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano so explosive? Where are we on the global climatic thermostat? And how you can get involv…

4 years, 3 months ago

The Rutland ‘Sea Dragon’, An Astronomer's Christmas and some Animal Magic

After 20 years of planning, preparation and a nail-biting build up fraught by delays The James Webb Space telescope finally launched on Christmas day…

4 years, 3 months ago

Deep ocean exploration

UCL oceanographer Helen Czerski explores life in the ocean depths with a panel of deep sea biologists. They take us to deep ocean coral gardens on s…

4 years, 3 months ago

A new space age?

Dr Kevin Fong convenes a panel of astronautical minds to discuss the next decade or two of space exploration.

2021 was an eventful year in space. Cap…

4 years, 3 months ago

The Origin of Celtic Culture in Britain?

Victoria Gill hears of ancient DNA evidence for an unrecognised mass migration from continental Europe 3,000 years ago that may even have brought the…

4 years, 3 months ago

The James Webb Space Telescope

The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is only days away. Scheduled for lift off on 24 December, the largest and most complex space observato…

4 years, 4 months ago

Initial Omicron Lab Data, Creative Naps, and Fishy Sounds.

T-Cells in vaccinated people may be holding the fort, or at least fighting serious illness, against the latest SARS CoV2 variant. Also, how the brief…

4 years, 4 months ago

When Pandemics Collide

As virologists around the world race to investigate the latest SARS CoV2 variant of concern, the UN’s World AIDS Day this week reminds us of the othe…

4 years, 4 months ago

Malaria: what's in it for the mosquito?

Malaria, a disease that infects hundreds of millions of people and kills hundreds of thousands each year. It is caused after a plasmodium parasite is…

4 years, 4 months ago