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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Antarctic melt; brain enhancing devices, atomic clocks and anti-bat moth sounds
Thu 15 May 2014
Adam Rutherford discusses the irreversible melting of the Antarctic Western Ice shelf.
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Colin Pillinger; Fire? Artificial DNA
Thu 8 May 2014
The first living organism is created using artificial DNA with man-made genetic letters
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Mice & Men; Fuel from CO2; fRMI; Insect calls
Thu 1 May 2014
How can you get jet fuel from thin air? Just add water, carbon dioxide and sunlight.
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Y chromosome; Everest avalanche; Aphid survey; Longitude
Thu 24 Apr 2014
Adam Rutherford finds out, when it comes to chromosomes, what's the point of the Y.
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Sperm and egg; Dogs; Automatic Facebook; Invasive species
Thu 17 Apr 2014
Tracey Logan finds out how a sperm recognises an egg.
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Whales; Dark Matter; Falling; Arty brains
Thu 10 Apr 2014
Tracey Logan asks whether killing whales for science can be justified?
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Calorie Restriction; Moon Age; Mars Yard; IPCC.
Thu 3 Apr 2014
Tracey Logan unpicks new research on calorie restriction.
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Fracking; Purple GM tomatoes; Bionic humans; Shark attacks
Thu 27 Mar 2014
Gareth Mitchell is joined by 蜜芽传媒 School reporters to get their take on the week鈥檚 science.
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Cosmic inflation; LISA; Photonic radar; Bird stress camera; Water research; Taxidermy
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Gareth Mitchell explores the compelling new evidence for the Big Bang Theory.
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Tracking planes; Peer review; Mega-virus; Astronaut
Thu 13 Mar 2014
Are black boxes outdated technology? Adam Rutherford asks about ways to track aircraft.
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LG - Chemical weapons, Turtles, Tech for wildlife, Climate
Thu 6 Mar 2014
Dr Lucie Green on how Syria's chemical weapons are being neutralised and made safe.
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Brain Machine Interfaces; Question on Gay Genes; Studying Drinking Behaviour
Thu 27 Feb 2014
Adam Rutherford looks at controlling paralysed bodies using thought.
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Bees; Whales; Pain; Gay genes
Thu 20 Feb 2014
Bee diseases, whale-spotting question, epigenetics of pain and genes for sexual preference
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Whales from space; Flood emails; SUYI JET Lasers; CERN's new tunnel; Discoveries exhibition
Thu 13 Feb 2014
Dr Lucie Green discovers how underwater whales can be spotted from space.
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Engineering for floods; Neanderthal genes; Switching senses; Genes in Space game
Thu 6 Feb 2014
Adam Rutherford asks architects and engineers how to protect homes against floods.
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Neanderthals; Plague; Wind Tunnel; Music Timing; Stem Cells
Thu 30 Jan 2014
Adam Rutherford asks: What did the Neanderthals ever do for us?
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Higgs Boson; Neutrinos; Antarctic echo locator; Rainforest fungi; Alabama rot
Thu 23 Jan 2014
Tiny particles and the huge and hugely expensive experiments needed in order to find them.
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Personal genetics kits; Persister cells; Earthquake mapping; Scorpions
Thu 16 Jan 2014
Personal genetics kits - useful service or unregulated, irresponsible and gimmicky?
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Antarctica weather and climate change; GM Fish Oils; Melanin Fossils; Time Travel
Thu 9 Jan 2014
The astrophysicists, the poker game, and the search for time travellers in our midst.
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Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
Thu 2 Jan 2014
Who lived in Britain thousands of years ago, and how do we know?
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Bacteriophages; Breath-detecting disease; Our bees electric and DNA Barcoding
Boxing Day 2013
Bacteriophages as a tool to fight infections; bees and their electric sensing for nectar
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Antimicrobial soap; GAIA; Stone-age jellybones; Antarctica
Thu 19 Dec 2013
The voyage to map a billion stars - the GAIA satellite camera is launched into space.
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Horsemeat; NanoSims; Early bacteria; Crystallography
Thu 12 Dec 2013
Scientists are ready to form the vanguard in the fight to protect UK food from criminals.
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Badger culls; Douglas Mawson; Plastics; Uptalk
Thu 28 Nov 2013
The global march of valley-girl 'uptalk' - now men too are upwardly inflecting.
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Therapeutic hypothermia; Cameras on Gaia; Methane; Wine microbiota
Thu 28 Nov 2013
Adam Rutherford toasts microbial 'terroir', the fungi and bacteria that make grapes unique
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Bird Atlas; Flywheels; Energy capture; Science lessons for MPs
Thu 21 Nov 2013
The citizen science army who've logged 19 million birds for the new UK Ireland Bird Atlas.
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DNA to ID typhoon victims; Volcanic ash; Hope for red squirrels; Robogut
Thu 14 Nov 2013
How DNA matching techniques can help identify those who perished in Typhoon Haiyan.
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Personal genome; Solar cells and music; Asteroids; Alfred Russel Wallace
Thu 7 Nov 2013
Dr Lucie Green on putting your sequenced DNA, your personal genome, on the internet.
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Moon dust; Electro-ceuticals; Soil and climate change; Dogs' tails
Thu 31 Oct 2013
Dust in space - Dr Lucie Green on the LADEE Moon Mission and the perils of moon dirt.
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Nuclear Waste; Exoplanets; 蜜芽传媒 time and pips, Synthetic Biology Olympics
Thu 24 Oct 2013
Adam Rutherford asks how radioactive waste from Hinkley C nuclear plant will be dealt with
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