Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchZika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish
The Zika virus is dominating the news this week. The latest data says it's been found in 21 countries so far. The symptoms are generally mild, but th…
10 years, 2 months ago
Ancient Britons' DNA, Concorde's 40th Anniversary, Giant dinosaur, New planet?
Our ability to extract DNA from old bones is improving, giving us a much clearer picture of who our ancestors were, and what they did. Two new papers…
10 years, 2 months ago
The 100,000 Genome Project, Stem cell doping, Nuclear waste, Dinosaur sex
The 100,000 Genome Project aims to sequence the DNA of 100,000 patients. One of those patients is four-year-old Georgia Walburn-Green. Her symptoms d…
10 years, 3 months ago
El Nino Special
El Niño is releasing vast quantities of heat normally stored in the Pacific, causing floods, droughts and fires. Adam Rutherford discusses the latest…
10 years, 3 months ago
31/12/2015
Adam Rutherford and guests oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski, astrophysicist Chris Lintott and zoologist Dr Tim Cockerill share their highlights of the …
10 years, 3 months ago
New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry
Since the epic flyby of Pluto in July, NASA has been regularly downloading staggering images from the New Horizons mission. Pluto is not a dead rock,…
10 years, 3 months ago
Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM
Two times shuttle captain, and with 6 months on the ISS, Commander Chris Hadfield is best qualified to pass on his advice to Major Tim Peake about th…
10 years, 4 months ago
Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators
Flood modelling As parts of Cumbria and Somerset remain on flood alert, Adam looks at the science that predicts floods. Are our flood defences good e…
10 years, 4 months ago
Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene
Science Funding Review In the Comprehensive Spending Review last week, the Government announced its commitment to protect the science budget in 'real…
10 years, 4 months ago
Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions
Ancient farmers' genomes New research looking at the DNA of people who lived in Europe as early as 8500 years ago shows signs of evolution, of natura…
10 years, 4 months ago