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Adam Rutherford puts listeners' science questions to his team of experts: physicist Helen Czerski, cosmologist Andrew Pontzen and biologist Yan Wong.…
9 years, 3 months ago
Inuits and Denisovans, Sex and woodlice, Peace through particle physics, Caspar the octopus in peril?
Can Inuit people survive the Arctic cold thanks to deep past liaisons with another species? Adam Rutherford talks to geneticist Rasmus Nielsen who sa…
9 years, 4 months ago
Rock traces of life on Mars, Desert fireball network, Gut microbes and Parkinson's Disease, Science Museum's maths exhibition
Could rocks studied by the Mars rover Spirit in Gusev Crater in 2007 contain the hallmarks of ancient life? Geologist Steve Ruff of Arizona State Uni…
9 years, 4 months ago
Alzheimers research, Lucy in the Scanner, Smart bandages, From supernovae to Hollywood
Alzheimers disease is now the leading cause of death in the UK, but there are as yet no treatments to halt or reverse it. There was huge disappointme…
9 years, 4 months ago
Predator bacteria therapy, New money for UK science, Stick-on stethoscope, Taming fears in the brain scanner
Bdellovibrio is a small bacterium which preys and kills other bacteria. A team of researchers in the UK has shown in animal experiments that injectio…
9 years, 4 months ago
Does Pluto have an ocean, Antarctica's oldest ice, Meat emissions, Swifts fly ten months non-stop
Does the distant dwarf planet Pluto have an ocean beneath its thick crust of ice? It's certainly possible, according to a group of researchers who ar…
9 years, 5 months ago
Climate change questions, Animal computer interaction, Sounds and meaning across world's languages
Climate change is in the news this week. The international Paris agreement to curb global temperature rise has just come into effect but President El…
9 years, 5 months ago
Italy's quakes, Ebola virus, Accidental rocket fuel, China in space
In the past three months, central Italy has been shaken by several large earthquakes. The quake near Norcia on 30th October was the most powerful for…
9 years, 5 months ago
Making mozzies safe with a microbe, CO2 at 400 ppm, Chixculub crater rocks, Why Mars Lander failed
Adam Rutherford meets the Australian scientist behind a radical new technique to prevent mosquitoes from spreading the zika and dengue fever viruses …
9 years, 5 months ago
HFC Ban; Human Cell Atlas; Origin of Hunting with Dogs
Biologists are to begin a 10 year international project to map the multitude of different kinds of cell in the human body. The average adult is built…
9 years, 6 months ago