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#68: Climate change and methane mystery; breathable liquid; covid vaccines
Season 1 Episode 68
When it comes to climate change, carbon dioxide usually gets the spotlight, but methane, although shorter-lived in the atmosphere, is more potent as …
5 years, 3 months ago
#67: Brain plasticity; entropy and the nature of time; vaccine booster shots
Season 1 Episode 67
Efforts to fight covid-19 won’t stop even when everyone is vaccinated. There’s a good chance we’ll need vaccine booster shots to keep on top of the d…
5 years, 4 months ago
#66: Sea level rise; Bitcoin carbon pollution; how to measure self-awareness
Season 1 Episode 66
The most detailed analysis yet of global warming and sea level rise has been published. The paper’s lead author, Tamsin Edwards of King’s College Lon…
5 years, 4 months ago
#65: Chernobyl radiation safety; Chinese space station; wisdom of trees
Season 1 Episode 65
It’s been 35 years since the devastating explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But new research shows there has been no increase in genetic…
5 years, 4 months ago
#64: Earth Day rescue plan: climate change and biodiversity special
Season 1 Episode 64
To mark Earth Day 2021, we’ve assembled a panel of experts to discuss climate change and biodiversity loss - “two runaway crises tightly interlinked …
5 years, 4 months ago
#63: Musical spider’s webs; magic mushrooms for treating depression; the sound of coronavirus
Season 1 Episode 63
The vibrations of a spider’s web have been transformed into some spectacularly haunting pieces of music. The team shares the work of MIT researcher M…
5 years, 5 months ago
#62: Synthetic life; rescue plan for Earth; muon g-2 new physics
Season 1 Episode 62
Scientists tinkering around with the creation of synthetic life have taken a significant step forward. The team explains how synthetic cells could on…
5 years, 5 months ago
#61: Worse allergies; black hole in our backyard; new flavours of vanilla
Season 1 Episode 61
Spring has sprung and… ACHOO!! Yep, hay fever is back with a vengeance. This week the team has some bad news for hay fever sufferers, as allergies ar…
5 years, 5 months ago
#60: New physics; anti-ageing human embryos; Mars update
Season 1 Episode 60
The Large Hadron Collider might, just might, have found something that challenges the Standard Model of particle physics. The team hears why an anoma…
5 years, 5 months ago
#59: Vaccine success; hibernation and anti-ageing; world’s first computer
Season 1 Episode 59
We’re tantalisingly close to resuming normal life, as promising news from Israel has shown that vaccines are swinging the fight against covid-19 in o…
5 years, 6 months ago