Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCoronavirus variants and vaccines, climate change resistant coffee, dare to repair and how to get rid of moths
This week has seen a huge surge in Covid- 19 in India leading to concern of a "double mutant" variant, but what do we know about this B.1.617 as it …
4 years, 11 months ago
Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams
The story of what we understand about the rare cases of blood clots associated with certain Covid-19 vaccines is constantly evolving. In today’s pro…
5 years ago
Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages
In 2016, an accelerator physics centre called Fermilab acquired a massive circular 50 foot magnet from a lab in New York. Too big for the roads, the …
5 years ago
Science funding cuts; Mice get Covid-19; Native oyster reintroductions
Scientists were delighted earlier this year to find they would still have access to the EU Horizon 2020 funding and collaborations. Now, it has been …
5 years ago
Halfway to net zero; hydrogen as a fuel; Fagradalsfjall, Iceland’s active volcano
The UK is reportedly halfway towards meeting its 2050 target of "net zero" carbon emissions. How did we get there and how will we achieve the next st…
5 years ago
Human embryo research and ethics; sperm whale social learning; Antikythera mechanism
We still know very little about exactly how the embryo forms out of a mass of dividing cells in those crucial first weeks after conception. This is a…
5 years, 1 month ago
China's green growth plan
On Friday 5th March China published a draft for its 14th five-year plan in Beijing. The document acts as a national economic blueprint and was expect…
5 years, 1 month ago
Blue carbon; inside Little Foot's skull; reading locked letters
With global warming continuing to increase at an alarming rate, we need all the help we can get to lock up the carbon that we’ve released into the at…
5 years, 1 month ago
Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation
On Thursday, The UN Environmental Programme published a report called Making Peace With Nature. It attempts to synthesise vast amounts of scientific…
5 years, 1 month ago
Nasa's Perseverance - will it pay off? And spotting likely hosts for future pandemics.
On Thursday 18th Feb 2020 Nasa’s Perseverance Rover is due to touch down – gently and accurately – in the Jezero crater on Mars. Using similar nail-b…
5 years, 2 months ago