Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRoyal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum mystery object
The Royal Society’s Insight Investment Science Book Prize’s shortlist has just been announced. Over the next few weeks, Marnie and Adam will be chatt…
5 years, 6 months ago
COVID-19 in Winter, Acoustics of Stonehenge and Dog years
As it starts to get colder and we crank up the central heating in our homes, what will the effect be on the SARs-CoV-2 virus? As a respiratory virus …
5 years, 7 months ago
Coronavirus: The types of vaccine; How the UK is scaling up vaccine production
Vaccination has eradicated smallpox, a disease that decimated populations through the 20th century. Polio is almost gone too, and measles is no longe…
5 years, 7 months ago
Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object
Skulls give researchers a great deal of insight into how an animal might have evolved, and skulls can be sensibly compared between species and groups…
5 years, 7 months ago
What does the science say about the COVID risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy
Over the next couple of weeks almost all children in the UK will be back to school. But the pandemic hasn’t ended, and we are far from having a comp…
5 years, 7 months ago
Smart bricks, The Royal Academy of Engineering awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting SARS-Cov-2 in sewage
Red clay bricks are among the most ubiquitous building materials worldwide. Julio D'Arcy, a chemist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri,…
5 years, 8 months ago
Land use and zoonoses, California's earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome
COVID19 is a chilling reminder of how pathogens from animals can jump into humans. But it’s not the first time. SARS, Ebola, West Nile virus and bubo…
5 years, 8 months ago
How sperm swim, the theory of soil & the Big Compost Experiment update
Adam reveals new research which overturns received wisdom about how sperm swim. More than three centuries after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered down …
5 years, 8 months ago
Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100
The Science Museum Group looks after over 7.3 million items. As with most museums, the objects you see on display when you visit are only the tip of …
5 years, 8 months ago
Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic and roads and birds
A pre-print is a way for scientists to get their work out quickly for other scientists to comment on and debate. But pre-prints are not peer reviewed…
5 years, 8 months ago