Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAir pollution monitoring, Britain breathing, Tracking Hannibal
This week a "Faraday Discussion" - a unique way of presenting and sharing cutting edge science - is underway at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Lon…
10 years ago
Solar farm, Gravity machine, Kakapo
The world's second largest floating solar farm has just started generating power. Built on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir in West London, it's the …
10 years ago
Flu, Coffee yeasts, Wave machine, Cochlear implants
The flu season is running later this year. And it has been unusually virulent. Professor Wendy Barclay, virologist at Imperial College London, tells …
10 years ago
Recovering lost memories, Storks eat junk food, Oldest pine fossil, Spring flowering
Research in Nature this week shows that lost memories in mice can be rescued by reactivating a group of memory cells in the brain called 'engram' cel…
10 years, 1 month ago
Gain-of-function research, Mindfulness, Women in science, Snake locomotion
This week in the US, public discussions are taking place into controversial Gain of Function research. Who should decide the limits of studies where …
10 years, 1 month ago
UK's longest-running cohort study, The Brain prize, Hairy genetics
This week is birthday time for the 3000-strong group of 70 year olds who might qualify for the title of longest-serving science guinea pigs. Particip…
10 years, 1 month ago
UK science and the EU, Sex of organs, Artificial colon, Gorillas call when eating
Britain faces a referendum on whether to leave Europe. Science, and scientists, often cross borders in collaborations, so what would the implications…
10 years, 1 month ago
Gravitational Waves, UK Spaceport, Big Brains and Extinction Risk, Conservation in Papua New Guinea
Gravitational waves were announced last week, in what may be the science discovery of the decade. The Ligo detector, the most sensitive instrument on…
10 years, 2 months ago
Gravitational Waves Special
The universe is silent no longer - physicists at the LIGO observatory have detected gravitational waves.
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-…
10 years, 2 months ago
UK pollinators' food, Brain implant, Holograms, Lunar 9
Some much-needed good news for our troubled bees and other pollinators: between 1998 and 2007, the amount of nectar produced from Britain's flowering…
10 years, 2 months ago