Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAntarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Antarctic ice-sheet instability A new study models how the ice sheets in Antarctica will react if greenhouse gases rise at a medium to high rate. The…
10 years, 5 months ago
Sex-change tree, Pluto's cryovolcanoes, Sellafield's plutonium, Ant super-organisms
Britain's oldest tree changes sex - The science behind the headlines - this week it was reported that the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire (known to be a…
10 years, 5 months ago
Grid cells and time, Boole, How your brain shapes your life
Grid cells and time Animals navigate by calculating their current position based on how long and how far they have travelled and a new study on tread…
10 years, 5 months ago
Oxygen on comet 67P; Bees and antimicrobial drugs; Reproducibility of science experiments; Reintroduction of beavers
Oxygen on comet 67P Molecular oxygen (O2) detected on comet Churymov-Gerasimenko 67P, has scientists baffled. Current models of the formation of our…
10 years, 5 months ago
Animal experiments, Bees and diesel, Sense Ocean, Readability of IPCC report
Animal experiments Scientists are changing the way they measure animals used in research. The most recent Home Office report not only shows the numb…
10 years, 5 months ago
Time Travel in Science and Cinema
In a special programme to mark, amongst other things, the centenary of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, Adam Rutherford is joined by T…
10 years, 6 months ago
Ethiopian genome, Coral nutrients, The hunt for gravitational waves, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
As evidence grows about the vulnerability of our ocean corals to climate change, what's often overlooked are the more subtle changes in the ocean wat…
10 years, 6 months ago
Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity
A special edition recorded in front of an audience at Write on Kew, the Royal Botanical Garden's new literary festival. Adam Rutherford examines the …
10 years, 6 months ago
Listeners' Science Questions
Adam Rutherford and panellists Helen Czerski, Andrew Pontzen and Nick Crumpton answer listeners' science questions: What's the best way to become fos…
10 years, 6 months ago
Pluto images, Space elevator, Insect migration, Imagination app
This summer, the spaceship New Horizons sped past Pluto at 30,000mph, snapping photographs as it went. The pictures sent back this week have transfor…
10 years, 7 months ago