Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLife on Mars? Quantum Gravity. The deep origins of bird song
Mars is about to be visited by the first space mission for 40 years which is designed to seek signs of life on the Red Planet. Adam Rutherford talks …
9 years, 6 months ago
Microbead impact, Remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch
The government has announced that tiny pieces of plastic in personal beauty products that end up in the oceans will be banned from sale in the UK. Bu…
9 years, 7 months ago
Proxima b exoplanet, The Hunt for Vulcan, East Antarctic lakes, Deep sea shark hunting
The nearest habitable world beyond our Solar System might be right on our doorstep . Scientists say their investigations of our closest star, Proxima…
9 years, 7 months ago
Autonomous cars, Bees and neonicotinoids, Marden Henge, Royal Society Book Prize
Ford has just announced that by 2021 it's going to have a driverless car on the road with no steering wheel. It sounds ambitious, since it is the int…
9 years, 8 months ago
Blow to the LHC "bump", Crow intelligence, Robot mudskippers, Royal Society book prize
New results have squashed the hope that the hints of a new particle detected by the Large Hadron Collider would confirm the existence of something ex…
9 years, 8 months ago
Signs of life on planets, Royal Society Book Prize, Queen Bee control, Galactic Prom 29
What should we be looking for when searching for life on other planets beyond our solar system? Scientists urgently need to come to a consensus on th…
9 years, 8 months ago
Dinosaur extinction, Neanderthals in Gibraltar, Music appreciation, A year of New Horizons
The dinosaurs met their end with a massive bang when, 66 million years ago, a 6 mile-wide rock crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. This was bad news for…
9 years, 9 months ago
Juno, Space debris, Fake tumours, Risky plants
Earlier this week, the US space agency successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter. The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had…
9 years, 9 months ago
Juno, Nanotech art conservation, Robots fix the city, Eel conservation
NASA's Juno Probe arrives at Jupiter on 4th July, where it will execute a daring loop-the-loop in order to get closer to the giant planet than any ot…
9 years, 9 months ago
National Insect Week, Venus' electric field, Green mining, Wimbledon grass science
This week is National Insect Week. Almost all animals on Earth are insects, and entomologist Adam Hart told us why we're celebrating and studying the…
9 years, 9 months ago