Podcast Episodes

Meeting Mars, Melting Ice, Ozone on the Mend Again, and A Sea Cacophany

Victoria Gill and guests discuss the signs and symptoms of melting ice and anthropogenic climate warming, illicit CFC production and the racket we ma…

5 years, 2 months ago

Putting a number on biodiversity

Ahead of the COP summit in Glasgow at the end of the year, this week an important study was published that attempts to enumerate the value of biodive…

5 years, 2 months ago

Next Gen Covid Vaccines; Man's Oldest Bestest Friend; Bilingual Brain Development

A year after the first SARS-Cov2 sequences were received in the vaccine labs, Dr Alex Lathbridge and guests look into ongoing development and what ne…

5 years, 2 months ago

Vaccine Hesitancy and Ethnicity; The Joy of catnip; Lake Heatwaves

Reports this week talk of some BAME ethnic minorities being significantly less likely to take a covid vaccine if offered. Vittal Katikireddi and Tolu…

5 years, 2 months ago

UK Science post Brexit; GMOs vs Gene Editing regulation; Identical Twins That Aren't Indentical

In the new EU-UK deal, the UK is to be an associate member of the latest EU research funding round, known as Horizon Europe. Costing around £2bn to t…

5 years, 3 months ago

Vaccine Dosing and Biodiversity Soundscape Monitoring

After the decision by the UK government last week to change the spacing between dosings of vaccine from the recommended 3 weeks to 12 weeks, immunolo…

5 years, 3 months ago

Brian Cox and Alice Roberts on a decade of extraordinary science

As a new decade ticks over, Dr Adam Rutherford, Professor Alice Roberts and Professor Brian Cox look back on a decade of science that has transformed…

5 years, 3 months ago

Space Rocks, Aquatic Dinosaurs and Global Temperatures; 2020 science reviewed

Nobody could have failed to notice the one story dominating the science news this year - but what about the discoveries that have been overshadowed i…

5 years, 3 months ago

Covid mutation; On the facial expression of emotions; A mystery object

Dr Alex Lathbridge with your peek at the week in science.

This week in the House of Commons Matt Hancock announced a new variant in the Covid virus, d…

5 years, 4 months ago

Future risk planning; Millennium Seed Bank; Urban trees

Dr Alex Lathbridge brings you the week in science.

As the first COVID vaccines are delivered this week hastening the first glimmers of a return to nor…

5 years, 4 months ago