Podcast Episodes

Protein folding; Hyabusa sample return; Holiday Covid testing

Has one of the biggest problems in biology been solved by AI? Dr Alex Lathbridge brings you the week in science.

This week google's Deep Mind team pre…

5 years, 4 months ago

26/11/2020

Last weekend a joint European-US satellite blasted into space to begin its mission - monitoring the oceans back here on earth. Sentinel 6 Michael Fre…

5 years, 4 months ago

COVID Operation Moonshot; Big Compost Experiment; Gulf of Mexico meteorite and new life

Earlier this month, the government rolled out a pilot in Liverpool for ‘Operation Moonshot’, their proposal to spend £100 billion pounds to regularly…

5 years, 5 months ago

mRNA vaccinations; bacterial space miners; Artemis accords

Scientists this week announced hopeful results in two of the big COVID-19 vaccination trials. Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health at the Nuffield…

5 years, 5 months ago

COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize

We know that children can catch the SarsCov2 virus, even though adverse side effects are incredibly rare. But what isn't clear is how likely they are…

5 years, 5 months ago

A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl

Marnie Chesterton presents an update on the week's science.

Behind your eyes, above your mouth but below the brain, two 3cm saliva glands have been hi…

5 years, 5 months ago

COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry and sense of smell and COVID

If you contracted COVID will you then be protected from further infections and illness from SARS-CoV-2 in the future? We’re starting to hear about c…

5 years, 5 months ago

Test and trace - how the UK compares to the rest of the world; Linda Scott's book The Double X Economy

From the very start of the COVID pandemic, test and trace has been the mantra. But here in the UK it was started, then abandoned as the number of cas…

5 years, 6 months ago

08/10/2020

Claudia Hammond looks at the neuroscience behind our sense of touch. Why does a gentle touch from a loved one make us feel good? This is a questio…

5 years, 6 months ago

Brian May's Cosmic Clouds 3-D; How fish move between waterbodies and Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics

There are few images as awe-inspiring as those of the deep cosmos. Photos of the stars, galaxies, constellations and cosmic nebulae are difficult to …

5 years, 6 months ago