Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYet More Space Junk; COP-up or COP-out; The End of Bias.
Earlier in the week the current ISS crew had to prepare to evacuate after Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon, spreading thousands of high velocit…
4 years, 5 months ago
Propane: Keeping Your Cool as the World Warms Around You
How propane might prevent air conditioning and refrigeration becoming an even bigger burden as our planet warms. Also, covid antiviral pills, and how…
4 years, 5 months ago
How Whales Farmed For Food, COP progress, and The Last Stargazers
Gaia Vince hears how blue whales' huge appetites and energetic eating behaviours helped generate more food for themselves. Also, an update from COP26…
4 years, 5 months ago
Atmospheric Pollutants and Where to Find Them
This week London's Ultra Low Emission Zone was extended to 18 times its previous size. In an effort to cut levels of various nitrogen oxides and othe…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Possible Impact of false-negative PCR Tests
As many as 43,000 PCR tests for people living in and around the South West of England could have been wrongly returned as negative recently, thanks t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Early Alzheimer's Alert
Marnie Chesterton hears of a simple test for the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease. She finds out about UK scientists using robots to map radiati…
4 years, 6 months ago
Surprising choice for Nobel prizes in a pandemic?
This week saw the announcement of the Nobel prizes for physiology or medicine, chemistry and physics. None of them reward research connected with Cov…
4 years, 6 months ago
Covid vaccine boosters; why we don't have a tail; cassowary domestication; Royal Society Science book prize shortlist
Booster vaccines are now being offered to people in England most at risk of Covid, who had their second jab at least 6 months ago. Most people are ge…
4 years, 6 months ago
La Palma volcano; wind energy in the UK; origins of SARS-Cov2; Formula 1 safety
Thousands of people have been forced to flee the path of the lava that has been spewing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma since Sunday 18th S…
4 years, 6 months ago
Perseverance drills on Mars; space tourism; Australian fire debris and algal blooms; DNA vaccines against Covid
NASA's Perseverance rover has been trundling around the Jezero crater since it landed successfully in February 2021. A few weeks ago it made its fir…
4 years, 7 months ago