Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHomo Naledi, New spacesuit, Quantum biology, A possible cure for motion sickness
Tracey Logan talks to Professor Chris Stringer about the discovery a new human ancestor, Homo Naledi. With ape and human like features its age isn't …
10 years, 7 months ago
El Nino, Sphagnum moss and peatlands, Inside Cern, Measuring air pollution with iPhones
Tracey Logan investigates the latest science news. Roland Pease reports on recent warnings that we're heading for one of the most severe El Ninos on …
10 years, 7 months ago
20/08/2015
Why the expansion of the paleolithic brain was powered by cooked carbohydrates. Gareth Mitchell talks to Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, Mark Tho…
10 years, 7 months ago
Scottish GM ban, Earth's magnetic field, OCD, Birth of a new galaxy
As Scotland announces it ban on GM crops and with the current post of chief scientific adviser for Scotland vacant, Adam talks to the previous post h…
10 years, 8 months ago
Pluto's surface, Increased Arctic ice in 2013, Linking brains together, Signals of fertility
The New Horizons probe is now millions of miles past Pluto, journeying throgh the Kuiper Belt, but still sending back gigabytes of data coming in via…
10 years, 8 months ago
Pluto: New Horizons
It's billed as the last great encounter in planetary exploration. For the past nine years the New Horizons spacecraft has travelled 5bn km (3bn miles…
10 years, 9 months ago
Intrusive memories, Silent aircraft, Nuclear fusion, Pluto
Adam Rutherford talks to Emily Holmes from the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, about two new studies on pr…
10 years, 9 months ago
Aphid-repelling wheat, National Institute for Bioscience, Global map of smell, Parrot mimics
Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire has just finished trials of a new way to repel aphids from wheat. It's a clever system, that takes a gene for a …
10 years, 9 months ago
Malaria drug, Listener feedback, Imaging the singing voice, Classifying human species
Malaria is the single greatest cause of death that humankind has ever experienced, and continues to be a colossal burden on the health of people all …
10 years, 9 months ago
Stars, Fracking, Ice Cores, Drunken Chimps
The ALMA telescope array in the Atacama Desert is one of the most sensitive earth based telescopes. It has now captured images of the very first gala…
10 years, 10 months ago