Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMore gravitational waves; Ocean floor mapping; Selfish Gene 40th; Spoonies
Gravitational waves have been detected for a second time. These waves are ripples in the curvature of space time, predicted by Einstein in his Genera…
9 years, 10 months ago
Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance
This week we're dedicating the whole programme to one of the biggest threats to humanity. We're already at 700,000 preventable deaths per year as a r…
9 years, 10 months ago
Fixing the Future
We face many global problems, such as drought, flooding and climate change. All of these issues are rooted in science. It'll take politics and people…
9 years, 10 months ago
GM plants; Svalbard Seed Vault; Directed Evolution; Dolphin Snot
The topic of GM plants raises strong opinions and many questions. This week, the Royal Society published answers to some of those questions. Adam spe…
9 years, 10 months ago
Climate Change, State of the World's Plants, Antibiotic Resistance, Telephone Metadata, Bat Detective
Today we're asking how anyone can make sense of the deluge of climate change data that is almost continually published. By the end of last month, nea…
9 years, 11 months ago
Genetics and education, Eyam plague, Pint of science, Labradors and chocolate
The biggest study of the relationship between genes and educational attainment - in this case, basically the measure of how long you stay in educatio…
9 years, 11 months ago
Human embryos, Transit of Mercury, Fishackathon, Fat labradors
In a major advance in the field of embryology, scientists this week have kept human embryos alive in petri dishes for record amounts of time. The leg…
9 years, 11 months ago
Chernobyl, Drones, Tree crickets, Cern
30 years ago this week an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. A fire raged for 10 days, spewing radioactive materials on the surrounding area a…
9 years, 11 months ago
EU membership and UK science, Quantum games, Fixing genes
The UK science community draws vital benefits from EU membership and could lose influence in the event of an exit, says a House of Lords report out t…
9 years, 11 months ago
Breakthrough Starshot, Moon mining, QB50, Solar Q&A
This week Russian internet billionaire Yuri Milner announced a project to send tiny spaceships to Alpha Centauri. Milner, alongside Stephen Hawking, …
10 years ago