Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchExponential increase in Indian covid cases
As Covid cases surge almost beyond belief in India, how much is to do with social distancing, and how much to do with the mutations to the original v…
4 years, 11 months ago
Rolling out the vaccines faster
Two weeks ago several G7 leaders called for an international treaty on Pandemic Preparedness for the future. This week 175 prominent leaders called f…
4 years, 11 months ago
On the trail of rare blood clots
On Wednesday the EU’s EMA and UK’s JCVI announced a suspected correlation between vaccination and an extremely rare type of blood clot. Prof Sabine E…
4 years, 11 months ago
Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital
After last year’s first wave of covid-19 in the UK, individuals who had been discharged after hospitalisation suffered higher rates of coronary and r…
4 years, 11 months ago
Science on the side of a new volcano
Sightseers and social media scrollers have flocked to the slopes of Fagradalsfjall, a volcano erupting 40 kilometres west of the Icelandic capital Re…
5 years ago
International science at sea
In the UK thousands of scientists have signed open letters to the UK government protesting cuts to international funding announced this week. Abruptl…
5 years ago
A shooting star parked on your driveway
Last week a fireball lit up the sky of western England. Locals and professionals scoured the countryside for any surviving precious fragments of mete…
5 years ago
Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
One of our most complete ancient ancestor’s fossils has been transported to the UK from South Africa in order to be scanned at the Diamond Light Sour…
5 years ago
Waste not, want not
Although vaccines will go a long way to reducing the number of cases of Covid, there’s still a need for other approaches. One of these could be an en…
5 years ago
Weird weather
A paper in the BMJ shows that deaths from Covid 9 are being massively overlooked in Zambia. The new data come from post-mortem tests at the Universit…
5 years, 1 month ago