Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUnderstanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
We have the latest from a year long investigation into the causes of the December 2018 Indonesian Tsunami. And we get a look at the first pictures fr…
6 years, 3 months ago
White Island volcano eruption
From the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Roland Pease talks with Diana Roman of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC ab…
6 years, 3 months ago
CRISPR babies scandal – more details
Extracts from unpublished papers on the methods used by a Chinese scientist to genetically modify the embryos of two girls reveal a series of potenti…
6 years, 3 months ago
New Malaria target
Molecular scale investigations have identified the mechanism which confers resistance to antimalarial drugs. Researchers hope work to turn off this m…
6 years, 3 months ago
Politics and Amazonia’s fires
This year’s Amazon fires have been worse than since 2010, scientists blame a government attitude which they say has encouraged deforestation. Governm…
6 years, 4 months ago
Australia burning
Australia’s annual wild fires have started early this year, drought is a factor but to what extent is ‘Bush fire weather’ influenced by climate chang…
6 years, 4 months ago
Climate in crisis
Pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are largely unachievable says a major audit of commitments to the Paris Climate Accord. Air pollution in D…
6 years, 4 months ago
Wildfires and winds in California
The Santa Ana in the south, and the Diablo in the north, are winds that are fuelling the terrible fires raging in California this week. They’re also …
6 years, 4 months ago
Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
A quantum computer has performed a calculation considered impossible for conventional computers, but how meaningful is the result? As our guest revea…
6 years, 5 months ago
Malaria, origins and a potential new treatment
A variety of malarial parasites have existed amongst the great apes for millennia, we look at how one of them jumped species and why humans became it…
6 years, 5 months ago