This week the Nature podcast team discover a 35,000 year-old figurine with exaggerated breasts, look back to the origins of RNA, look forward to a new light source that could replace ugly fluorescent strip lights, and ask: is free will an illusion?
This week the Nature podcast team discover a 35,000 year-old figurine with exaggerated breasts, look back to the origins of RNA, look forward to a new light source that could replace ugly fluorescent strip lights, and ask: is free will an illusion?
On this week’s Nature Podcast, Adam, Kerri, Charlotte and the gang look at climate change: Nicholas Stern tells how the recession could help curb global warming, Nature’s climate science editor is in the studio to talk about the latest research, and scientists imagine what the world would look like in the worst-case scenario of 1000ppm [...]
This week’s Nature podcast, hosted by Adam Rutherford and Kerri Smith, uncovers a new twist in our understanding of the Great Oxidation Event, finds out why some people are better than others at repairing radiation damage in their cells, and delves into the ‘cancer genome’ to discover more about how cells turn cancerous.
On this month’s Imperial Podcast Gareth Mitchell looks at: turning buses into portable air pollution detectors, making nuclear fission more efficient and quick genetic testing for drug suitability. Highlights:
01.34 Professor Robin Grimes on how to get more energy out of nuclear fuel and the pros and cons of the nuclear option
08.31 Headlines from around the [...]
If you haven’t already seen it, here’s UC Berkeley’s viral-hit, The Nano Song. It went big about a month ago and is still brilliant. Explanation of how it came about, and a link to an Mp3 download here. Nanotechnology explained through song. With puppets.
More recently, this week New York Times Deputy Science Editor, Barbara Strauch, [...]