Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Big Compost Experiment; Using AI to screen for new antibiotics; Science of slapstick
Composters - we need you! Or rather materials scientists at UCL, Mark Miodownik and Danielle Purkiss, need you to take part in their Big Compost Expe…
6 years, 1 month ago
Coronavirus questions; HMS Challenger and ocean acidification; Sean Carroll's quantum world
Adam Rutherford is joined by Professor of Virology at Nottingham University, Jonathan Ball, to help answer some of your questions on the latest coron…
6 years, 2 months ago
Ordnance Survey - Britain's 220-year-old tech company; Launching synthetic voices and personality test
For the past 220 years, Ordnance Survey have been mapping Great Britain with extraordinary accuracy. But as Gareth discovers when he visits their HQ …
6 years, 2 months ago
Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology
The latest space mission to the Sun is due to launch on Sunday. SolO, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, will loop around our star in an elli…
6 years, 2 months ago
Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
With the recent coronavirus outbreak spreading around the world, and concerns about people being infectious before they exhibit any symptoms. Profess…
6 years, 2 months ago
Coronavirus outbreak in China; Genetic diseases in Amish communities and getting an Egyptian mummy to speak
With news reports moving as quickly as the virus may be spreading, the latest coronavirus outbreak which is thought to have started in Wuhan in centr…
6 years, 2 months ago
Reproducibility crisis in science; Aeolus wind-measuring satellite; electric cars
Science is built upon the idea that results can be verified by others. Scientists do their experiments and write up their methods and results and sub…
6 years, 3 months ago
Australian bush fires; Veganuary and LIGO
2019 was the hottest and driest year on record in Australia. The Indian Ocean Dipole and the Southern Annular Mode weather systems, plus existing dro…
6 years, 3 months ago
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 2 - Travel and Culture
Our genomes are more than just an instruction manual for our bodies. They are maps, diaries, history books and medical records of our and our ancesto…
6 years, 3 months ago
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 1 - Sex and Disease
Our genomes are more than just an instruction manual for our bodies. They are maps, diaries, history books and medical records of our and our ancesto…
6 years, 3 months ago