Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchComplexity in Biology
Adam Rutherford takes the show to Dublin this week, to wrestle with great matters of biological complexity. Trinity College Dublin has organised a ma…
7 years, 7 months ago
Electronic brain probe; Rural stream biodiversity; Arctic weather research trip; Science book prize
Scientists have shown how an electronic gadget, implanted in the brain, can detect, treat and even prevent epileptic seizures. Epilepsy is usually tr…
7 years, 7 months ago
Cavendish banana survival; Guillemot egg shape; Unexpected Truth About Animals; Tambora's rainstorm
The last banana you probably ate was a type called Cavendish. But this, our last commercially viable variety is under severe threat, as the fungus, c…
7 years, 7 months ago
Capturing greenhouse gas, Beating heart failure with beetroot, Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision
Researchers have found a way to produce a naturally occurring mineral, magnesite, in a lab, that can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, offering a poten…
7 years, 8 months ago
New Horizons' next mission, Helium at 150, The Beautiful Cure, Oden arctic expedition
Astronomers this week have been warming up for an encounter as far from the Sun as ever attempted. It's the finale of the New Horizons mission which …
7 years, 8 months ago
Parker solar probe, Diversity in the lab, Royal Society book prize, Arctic circle weather
The sun still has many mysterious properties. The Parker Solar Probe, launched next week will be the closest a spacecraft has ever flown to our star.…
7 years, 8 months ago
Liquid water on Mars, Early embryo development, Earth Biogenome Project, Marine wilderness
The European Space Agency's satellite Mars Express has identified what we think is a subterranean lake of liquid near the south pole of the red plane…
7 years, 8 months ago
Peatbog wildfires, Coral acoustics, Magdalena Skipper, Fuelling long-term space travel
The wildfires on Saddleworth Moor may well be the most widespread in modern British history. Thanks to herculean efforts by Greater Manchester Fire a…
7 years, 9 months ago
Out of Africa, Predicting future heatwaves, Virtual reality molecules, Life in the dark
Scientists have found the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside Africa. A set of 96 stone tools has been found in the mountains of sout…
7 years, 9 months ago
Northern white rhino preservation, Deep sea earthquake detection, Twitter's rare Heuchera discovery, Human roars
The northern white rhinoceros is the world's most endangered mammal. The death earlier this year of the last male of this rhino subspecies leaves jus…
7 years, 9 months ago