Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchClimate change and oil and gas exploration; cutting methane emissions; African wild dog populations; freezing eggs and sperm
We’re just weeks away from the big international climate talks in Glasgow, where governments will be trying to figure out a workable plan for how to …
4 years, 7 months ago
Rugby and the brain
Victoria Gill talks to Professor Damian Bailey who's leading research at the University of South Wales into the potential risks to brain health in co…
4 years, 7 months ago
Window to solve pandemic origins closing
Virologist Marion Koopmans is one of the independent researchers appointed by the World Health Organisation to investigate the origins of the coronav…
4 years, 7 months ago
Mammoth Journey
A 17,000 year old tusk contains a remarkable story of the lifetime travels of a woolly mammoth which roamed the grasslands of Ice Age Alaska. The ani…
4 years, 8 months ago
IPCC report - extreme weather events
Victoria Gill talks to climate scientist Friedericke Otto about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new landmark report. The report this…
4 years, 8 months ago
Bees and multiple pesticide exposure
Victoria Gill looks at the latest stories from the world of science. In this week's episode: the threat to bees from multiple pesticide exposure, ho…
4 years, 8 months ago
Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated
In the UK we have seen a recent fall in Covid 19 cases. Good news, but we don’t know yet if this will be sustained. The virus is now thought to be sp…
4 years, 8 months ago
A life-changing database
Proteomes, the sequences of protein within the DNA of every living thing, are notoriously difficult to model. The usual chemical methods can take mo…
4 years, 8 months ago
Covid19 - should we test everybody ?
Epidemiologist Julian Peto is advocating mass testing as the key part of a plan to stop the virus spreading. Studies where everyone has been tested h…
4 years, 9 months ago
Covid and our ancient ancestors
A global project looking at the genomes of over 2 million people has found a number of distinct genetic markers which seem to either make Covid infec…
4 years, 9 months ago