Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHyabusa mission; ProtoDUNE neutrino detector; Caledonian crow skills; Koala microbiome
Yesterday a small Japanese ion-thruster spaceship arrived at its destination after a three year and half year, 2 billion mile journey. Hyabusa2 is cu…
7 years, 9 months ago
The Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, Voltaglue, Cambridge Zoology Museum, Francis Willughby
It's been 8 years since the Large Hadron Collider went online and started smashing protons together at just below the speed of light. CERN announced …
7 years, 9 months ago
Antarctic melt speeds up, Antarctica's future, Cryo-acoustics, Narwhals
Adam Rutherford goes totally polar this week with news of accelerating ice melt in Antarctica, two visions of the continent's future, and the sounds …
7 years, 10 months ago
Dinosaur auction, Who owns the genes of the ocean life, Cancer immunotherapy
A spectacular predatory dinosaur fossil was auctioned this week in Paris. It was bought by a private collector at the cost of about 2 million Euros. …
7 years, 10 months ago
Hay Festival
Adam Rutherford and his guests at the Hay Festival, neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan, acoustic engineer Professor Trevor Cox and science writer Dr P…
7 years, 10 months ago
CO2 and rice, Underground farming, Ancient interstellar asteroid, Microplastics air pollution
New research suggests that rice will be depleted in important B vitamins and minerals by rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Adam Rutherford to talk…
7 years, 10 months ago
Face Recognition, ‘Thug’ plants, Cancer Funding Inequalities, Feynman’s 100th birthday
Facial recognition technology is on the rise and in some places used to fight crime. In the UK the police have been heavily criticised for falsely id…
7 years, 11 months ago
Rat eradication; elephant talk; the rise of the dinosaurs; physics of snooker
On the remote island of South Georgia, the invasion of rats from passing ships has wreaked havoc on the local wildlife. But the South Georgia Heritag…
7 years, 11 months ago
Antarctic, Kew, Paleogenomics, Sea birds
The Thwaites glacier in Western Antarctica is twice the size of the UK and accounts for about 4% of sea level rise, but what is unknown is whether th…
7 years, 11 months ago
Human Consciousness: Could a brain in a dish become sentient?
As the field of neuroscience advances, scientists are increasingly growing brain tissue to study conditions like autism, Alzheimer's and Zika virus. …
7 years, 11 months ago