Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBovine TB and badger culling, Shrimp hoover CSI, Shark-skin and Turing
The Bovine TB Strategy Review has just been released. It contains a review of the science and offers advice and guidance to Government ministers on h…
7 years, 5 months ago
Oldest cave picture; the Anthropocene under London; a new scientist for the £50 note
What could be the oldest figurative cave paintings in the world have been found in a cave complex in remote Borneo. A reddish orange depiction of an …
7 years, 5 months ago
Repairing potholes, Ozone hole, Internet of hives, Drugs from fingerprints
Potholes are one of the biggest frustrations to any road-user, but why do they keep occurring? Following Philip Hammond’s announcement of £420 millio…
7 years, 5 months ago
Science and Brexit, Antibiotic livestock growth promoters, Bepicolombo goes to Mercury
How might Brexit affect UK Science? Why is feeding a 'last resort' antibiotic to farm animals not a good idea? Why is space probe Bepicolombo going…
7 years, 5 months ago
Old Dogs and Physics in Space
How far back can we trace the ancestry of dogs? For just how long have they been following us around? The answer is for a very long time - long befor…
7 years, 6 months ago
IPCC report, Cairngorms Connect project, grass pea, the Sun exhibition at Science Museum
Adam Rutherford speaks to Dr Tamsin Edwards, a lecturer in Physical Geography at Kings College London and a lead author for the latest IPCC report. D…
7 years, 6 months ago
Nobel Prizes - Hayabusa 2 latest - IPCC meeting - North Pole science
Adam Rutherford reviews this year's Nobel science prizes, and talks to Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a 2009 laureate and president of the Royal…
7 years, 6 months ago
Hyabusa 2 at Ryugu, deadly 1918 flu pandemic; WW2 bombing and ionosphere, teenage brain
Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has arrived after more than a three year journey at the Ryugu asteroid which is just over half a mile long. It has succ…
7 years, 6 months ago
Science of Addiction
The Science Gallery London at Kings College London, right under the Shard, is a brand new venue for the collision of art, science and culture, and it…
7 years, 7 months ago
First human drawing, Cycling genes, Oden Arctic expedition, Hello World
A new discovery of abstract symbolic drawings on a rock has been found in the Blombos Cave, about 300 km east of Cape Town in South Africa. The fragm…
7 years, 7 months ago