Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPrehistoric Strong Women, Semi-synthetic Life, Listener Feedback, Artificial Superintelligence
More than 5,000 years of heavy agricultural labour by women can be read from the bones found in ancient cemeteries from the Neolithic to Iron Age tim…
8 years, 4 months ago
Interstellar visitor, Svante Paabo, Synthetic biology, Plight of the Axolotl
On 19th October, a mysterious object sped through our solar system. It was first spotted by astronomers with a telescope in Hawaii. Its trajectory an…
8 years, 4 months ago
Can we forecast earthquakes?, Britain's space race rocket Skylark, Francis Galton
What might the length of the day have to do with the likelihood of destructive earthquakes around the world? According to Professors Rebecca Bendick …
8 years, 5 months ago
Boy gets New Skin, The York Gospels, Stephen Hawking's Thesis
Researchers in Italy and Germany have saved the life of a boy with a life threatening genetic skin disease, using a combination of stem cell and gene…
8 years, 5 months ago
Climate Change and Health; Moth Snow Storm Feedback; Whale Brain Evolution; Pharoah's Serpent
Adam Rutherford talks to researchers on a major global study that aimed to quantify how climate change has already damaged the health of millions of …
8 years, 5 months ago
Insects disappearing, DNA Biosensor, Dog faces, Bandit dinosaur
The total biomass of flying insects in the environment has decreased by 75% in the last quarter of a century. That's the conclusion of research publi…
8 years, 5 months ago
Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs Celsius
Adam Rutherford talks to astrophysicists about the astronomical discovery of the year, if not the last couple of decades: the collision of two neutro…
8 years, 6 months ago
HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese Typewriter
Gareth Mitchell talks to Gillian Foulger of Durham University about HiQuake, the world's largest database of human-induced earthquakes. Professor Fou…
8 years, 6 months ago
Gravity wave breakthrough, The antibiotic pipeline, Microbial waste recycling, Fausto - an AI opera
The gravitational waves produced by two massive black holes colliding have for the first time been detected by three gravitational wave detectors. Pr…
8 years, 6 months ago
Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave acoustics
After last week's Inside Science's edition devoted to Cassini ended, the Cassini spaceship plunged into the atmosphere of Saturn, and became part of …
8 years, 6 months ago