Podcast Episodes

Genetic Map of the British Isles, Drones for Conservation, Lab Photosynthesis, Solar Eclipse

The Romans, Vikings and Normans ruled Britain for many years, but few left their genetic calling cards behind in the DNA of today's mainland Caucasia…

11 years, 1 month ago

Large Hadron Collider Run Two, Flooding, Nasa's Biggest Rocket, Violin Evolution

Today CERN announced that on 23rd March the largest single machine the world has ever seen gets plugged in, switched on, and rebooted after a 2 year …

11 years, 1 month ago

Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; Women in science; Ceres

How does the brain lay down memory? For decades the limits of microscopes have meant that a detailed look at the way brain cells encode particular le…

11 years, 1 month ago

Artificial Intelligence, Desalination, History of Forensics, Music from Cells

A computer system has taught itself how to play dozens of video games. AI researchers claim this is a significant step toward machine intelligence, b…

11 years, 1 month ago

Alzheimer's Disease, False Memory, Diamond Light Source, Twins in Space

Alzheimer's disease is becoming increasingly common as the global population ages. It is estimated that currently 44 million victims of Alzheimer's d…

11 years, 2 months ago

Earth's Core; What Can Chemistry Do for Us?; Ocean Acidification; Darwin Day

Adam Rutherford explores new insights into what lies at the very centre of the Earth. New research from China and the US suggests that the innermost …

11 years, 2 months ago

Goshawk, Cosmic Renaissance, Carl Djerassi and Charles Townes

As Helen MacDonald's "H is for Hawk" secures 2014's Book of the Year at the Costa Awards, a paper appears describing the hunting tactics of the North…

11 years, 2 months ago

Climate change belief; Anthropocene era; Eyes on the sea; Origins of multicellular life

We all remember the floods across much of central and southern England this time last year, and the devastating effect they had on people's lives and…

11 years, 2 months ago

GMOs; International Year of Light; Coral health

It is likely that scientists will soon engineer strains of "friendly" bacteria which are genetically recoded to be better than the ones we currently …

11 years, 2 months ago

International Year of Soils

This year is the Food and Agriculture Organisation's International Year of Soils.

Adam Rutherford, ably assisted by Manchester University's Richard Ba…

11 years, 3 months ago