Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGene editing gets real
For the first time the gene editing technique CRISPR has been used by injecting the CRISPR instructions into the bloodstream rather than directly int…
4 years, 9 months ago
UK science policy shake-up; Ivermectin & Covid; black fungus in Indian Covid patients; many hominins in Siberian cave
The Prime Minister has announced his desire for the UK to become a 'science superpower'. A new office within the cabinet to look at science will work…
4 years, 9 months ago
Cov-Boost trial; SARS-Cov 2 infection in action; sapling guards; why tadpoles are dying
Scientists are now looking at the question of third doses of vaccines against SARS-Cov2, and this week the Cov-Boost trial was launched. It’s being r…
4 years, 10 months ago
Covid vaccines in children; preventing dengue; algal blooms; supersonic flight
Should we be vaccinating children in the UK against SARS-Cov 2? Children are rarely seriously ill if they catch Covid but infections mean missed scho…
4 years, 10 months ago
Lab origin theory of SARS-Cov2; gene for obesity; dark matter map; rock art in Scotland
Sars Cov2, as the Covid19 coronavirus is called, probably began as the vast majority of new diseases do, when an animal virus infected a person – per…
4 years, 10 months ago
Human use of plants beyond the limits of history.
Human impact on planet earth’s plant life might be detectable several thousand years back in fossil pollen cores taken from mud columns around the wo…
4 years, 10 months ago
Blood Clot Cure, Synthetic Fuels and Coal Mine Heat Pumps
Vic Gill talks to scientists who have cured a vaccine-induced blood clot patient, and meets a former top F1 chief engineer who wants to transform the…
4 years, 11 months ago
Microplastics in UK river beds
Untreated wastewater "routinely released into UK rivers" is creating microplastic hotspots on riverbeds. That is the conclusion of a study in Greater…
4 years, 11 months ago
Early burials, diversity in Tudor England, a malaria vaccine, and rogue brain waves
Despite being home to our early ancestors, attempts to find evidence of early burials in Africa have proved unsuccessful. That is until now. Professo…
4 years, 11 months ago
Dragonfly on Titan, Retreating Glaciers, Surge Testing, Acoustic lighthouses
Now that NASA engineers have successfully flown a helicopter remotely on Mars planetary scientists are exploring how to use the technology elsewhere.…
4 years, 11 months ago