Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInsects in incredible detail
The Natural History Museum in London holds a massive collection of insects. It asked researchers at the Diamond light source, a facility near Oxford,…
4 years, 8 months ago
Tales of unexpected DNA data
This week Jesse Bloom of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research has published an account of some DNA sequence data he located in an internet archi…
4 years, 9 months ago
Evolving viral variant trickery
Dr. Clare Jolly and colleagues have been looking at how the first of the major covid variants – alpha - evolved to be more transmissible. Whilst a lo…
4 years, 9 months ago
Doubling Earth’s Energy Imbalance
On Science in Action this week Nasa scientists have observed that the Earth’s Energy Imbalance has doubled in just 15 years. As greenhouse gas atmosp…
4 years, 9 months ago
Zoonotic hotspots and where to find them
Researchers map where the riskiest areas are for viruses to jump from bats into humans. Also, synthetic bacteria with unnatural DNA, and the origin o…
4 years, 9 months ago
Nyiragongo Eruption
The latest Nyiragongo eruption was not entirely unexpected, the volcano’s lava lake inside the crater had been building up for years. Local volcanol…
4 years, 9 months ago
Robot revolution
A brain-computer interface allows a severely paralysed patient not only to move and use a robotic arm, but also to feel the sensations as the mechani…
4 years, 10 months ago
Covid and clean air
We wouldn’t drink dirty water so why do we put up with polluted air? Researchers are calling for a major rethink on our attitude to air quality. Prof…
4 years, 10 months ago
Africa’s oldest burial
Analysis of the 78,0000-year-old fossil of a Kenyan boy reveals he was likely buried with care and attention, the body wrapped and laid to rest suppo…
4 years, 10 months ago
Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan
When Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins – who passed away this week – looked down on the earth from lunar orbit during those days in 1969, he saw mo…
4 years, 10 months ago