蜜芽传媒 Inside Science Podcast
A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
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Science in Fire Prevention
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Applying scientific techniques to reduce fire risk in tall buildings
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Early Humans Were Even Earlier Than We Thought
Thu 8 Jun 2017
Homo sapiens walked the earth at least 300,000 years ago.
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The Importance of Basic Research
Thu 1 Jun 2017
Adam Rutherford and guests discuss the usefulness of useless knowledge at the Hay Festival
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Sherpas - dolphin rescue - quantum computing - hot lavas
Thu 25 May 2017
What is the secret of the Sherpa people's adaptation to life at high altitude?
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Childhood cancers - Ghana telescope - Nano-listening device for cells - Ancient whales
Thu 18 May 2017
Searching for 100-year-old tumours to boost research on rare childhood cancers.
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Violins - Social networks and cliques in great tits and snow monkeys - Exploring DNA and art
Thu 11 May 2017
Do new violins sound better than old famed instruments? A scientist and soloist discuss.
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The moral brain, stem cell developments, ancient DNA in cave dirt, mangrove forest
Thu 4 May 2017
Shocking experiment shows how the brain makes us do the right thing.
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Homo naledi, First humans in America, Dark matter detector, New theory of dark matter
Thu 27 Apr 2017
Homo naledi; first humans in America; dark matter detector; new theory of dark matter.
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Cassini鈥檚 death, scrapping diesel, weather balloon, satellites monitoring volcanos
Thu 20 Apr 2017
Cassini's death; scrapping diesel cars; weather balloons; satellites monitoring volcanoes
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23andMe Genetic Sequencing, Human Knockout genes, Coral Bleaching
Thu 13 Apr 2017
23andMe genetic sequencing, Human knockout genes, Coral bleaching.
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Creation of island Britain, Sleep gene, Mary Kelly forensics, Global Tree Search survey
Thu 6 Apr 2017
How a megaflood severed Britain's connection to what is now France 450,000 years ago.
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Climate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Climate change and extreme weather; primate brain size; earthquake forecasting; planet 9.
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Comet 67P images; Etna eruption; Brain navigation; Octopus intelligence
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Comet 67P images, Etna eruption, brain navigation, octopus intelligence.
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Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, Aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones
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Rise of the Robots: 3. Where is my mind?
Wed 15 Mar 2017
Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us
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Rise of the Robots: 2. More human than human
Mon 6 Mar 2017
Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots
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Rise of the Robots: 1. The history of things to come
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Adam Rutherford explores the role of robots in past societies
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Earth's Earliest Life, The Benefits of Pollution, Sexuality and Science and New ideas on Evolution
Thu 2 Mar 2017
The World's oldest sedimentary rocks reveal traces of our earliest ancestors.
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The perils of fake science news, The neanderthal inside us, What The Beatles really sang - statistically speaking
Thu 23 Feb 2017
How a woolly story about resurrecting mammoths raises serious questions for medical ethics
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Science and cyber security, Dinosaur babies, Winston Churchill and level crossings
Thu 16 Feb 2017
Testing cyber security with science.
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Measuring human impact on earth, Awards for engineers, Sounds of space junk.
Thu 9 Feb 2017
Quantifying the impact of humanity on the earth's natural systems.
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Wildlife trafficking, New quantum computers, Ancient bird beaks, Glassblowing.
Thu 2 Feb 2017
How measures set up to conserve endangered species are being eroded.
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Crime, volcanoes, ghosts and how we are influenced by the genes of unrelated others
Thu 26 Jan 2017
How the genes of unrelated others can influence our health and behaviour.
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Antarctic science rescue, Killing cancer with viruses, Measuring wind from space and the Last man on the moon
Thu 19 Jan 2017
Why the British Antarctic science base is being temporarily abandoned.
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The perils of explaining science, Living to 500, What's good for your teeth and The future of stargazing
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science.
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RIP Granny the oldest Orca - Graphene + Silly Putty - Moving a Giant Magnet - Space in 2017
Thu 5 Jan 2017
Science mourns the death of the world's oldest killer whale, 'Granny'.
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Listeners' Questions
Thu 29 Dec 2016
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' science questions to his team of experts.
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Inuits and Denisovans, Sex and woodlice, Peace through particle physics, Caspar the octopus in peril?
Thu 22 Dec 2016
Can Inuits survive the Arctic cold thanks to deep past liaisons with another species?
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Rock traces of life on Mars, Desert fireball network, Gut microbes and Parkinson's Disease, Science Museum's maths exhibition
Thu 8 Dec 2016
Could rocks discovered by the Mars rover Spirit contain the hallmarks of ancient life?
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