Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTen years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths
Adam Rutherford talks to Chris Lintott about the citizen science platform he set up ten years ago. Zooniverse is a place where the public can help sc…
6 years, 4 months ago
Earliest hunting scene cave painting; animal domestication syndrome
A cave painting in Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been dated and is at least 43,900 years old. The mural portrays a group of part-human, part-animal figure…
6 years, 4 months ago
Global Carbon Emissions; Parker Solar Probe and simulating swaying buildings
Reports from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) in Madrid are saying that global warming is increasing and that we're not doing enough, fast e…
6 years, 4 months ago
What's the problem with palm oil and should we be supporting sustainably grown oil? Virtual reality skin
Palm oil is now such a dirty word for household products and processed food, that it often hides behind a list of dozens of pseudonyms (from the ubiq…
6 years, 4 months ago
Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat
The effects of human-made noise on the natural world has been surprisingly little studied. Hanjoerg Kunc at Queen's University in Belfast has collect…
6 years, 5 months ago
Soils and floods, Air pollution and ultra-low emission zones, detecting the drug Spice
The UK's soils are the first line of defence against flooding, but the condition of the soil is vital to how well it can soak up and slowly release r…
6 years, 5 months ago
Fracking moratorium; Bloodhound; Big Compost Experiment; transit of Mercury
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced an indefinite moratorium this week on mining of shale gas by hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, in the UK…
6 years, 5 months ago
African genomes sequenced; Space weather; sports head injuries
Since the human genome was first sequenced nearly 20 years ago, around a million people have had theirs decoded, giving us new insights into the link…
6 years, 5 months ago
Organic farming emissions; Staring at seagulls; Salt and dementia
Switching to 100% organic food production in England and Wales would see an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Although going fully organi…
6 years, 5 months ago
Ebola model, Partula snails, Malaria origin
Zoonotic diseases are infections that transfer from animals to people, and include killers such as bubonic plague, malaria, ebola and a whole host of…
6 years, 6 months ago