Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMoving Mountains; Invasive Species; Football Stickers
Moving Mountains Removing the tops off mountains was common practice in the eastern United States to strip mine for coal. Critics have previously cal…
11 years, 10 months ago
Women scientists; Mapping the ocean floor; Amplituhedron
Women of science London's Royal Society was buzzing last week as historians and scientists chewed over the lives of iconic women scientists. But at a…
11 years, 10 months ago
Longitude Prize 2014; Dementia; Matter from light; Coastal deposition
Longitude Prize 2014 The Longitude Prize offers a £10 million prize pot to help find the solution to one of the greatest issues of our age. Votes fro…
11 years, 10 months ago
Antarctic melt; brain enhancing devices, atomic clocks and anti-bat moth sounds
Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf Nothing can stop the collapse of the Antarctic Western Ice shelf. That’s according to NASA this week. Key glaciers in Ant…
11 years, 11 months ago
Colin Pillinger; Fire? Artificial DNA
Artificial DNA DNA is the molecule of life, conserved across all living species for 4 billion years. But now scientists have made a new, artificial v…
11 years, 11 months ago
Mice & Men; Fuel from CO2; fRMI; Insect calls
A recent paper demonstrated that mice show elevated stress levels in the presence of male hormones. What implications does this have for future mouse…
11 years, 11 months ago
Y chromosome; Everest avalanche; Aphid survey; Longitude
Y Chromosome We learn from a young age that if a fertilised egg carries XX chromosomes it will be a girl, but with XY it will be a boy. This male Y s…
11 years, 11 months ago
Sperm and egg; Dogs; Automatic Facebook; Invasive species
How sperm recognises the egg The discovery of a protein on mammalian sperm almost a decade ago, sparked the search for the corresponding receptor on …
12 years ago
Whales; Dark Matter; Falling; Arty brains
Whaling The International Court of Justice in the Hague recently ruled that Japan should stop whaling in the Antarctic “for scientific purposes.” The…
12 years ago
Calorie Restriction; Moon Age; Mars Yard; IPCC.
Calorie restriction Careful restriction of the number of calories eaten, without causing malnutrition, extends the lifespan of numerous organisms – f…
12 years ago