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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A Possible Sequel to the Dinosaur Armageddon
Thu 18 Aug 2022
Did the Chicxulub meteor that did for the dinosaurs have a smaller cousin?
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Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Arctic warming around four times faster than previously thought.
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Shaun The Sheep Jumps Over The Moon, Bronze Age Kissing and PPE Rubbish
Thu 4 Aug 2022
ESA announce that Shaun The Sheep will fly around the moon this month aboard Artemis 1.
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Heatwave: the consequences
Thu 28 Jul 2022
What are the consequences of the recent UK heatwave for us, plants and our energy supply.
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Multiverses, melting glaciers and what you can tell from the noise of someone peeing
Thu 21 Jul 2022
What came before the Big Bang; why the theory of the multiverse makes sense.
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Deep Space and the Deep Sea - 40 years of the International Whaling Moratorium.
Thu 14 Jul 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally in business - what treasures yet to come?
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Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer
Thu 7 Jul 2022
A trip round the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022.
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10 Years of the Higgs Boson
Thu 30 Jun 2022
July 2022 marks 10 years since the Higgs Boson was confirmed to exist. What next?
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Engineering Around Mercury, Science Festivals, and The Rise of The Mammals
Thu 23 Jun 2022
How hard is it to get to Mercury and why are we going?
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Miscounting Carbon, EU Funding Stalemate, and How to Make a Royal Hologram
Thu 9 Jun 2022
A stalemate in EU/UK science cooperation, and secrets of the jubilee 'hologram' revealed.
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A Reign of Science
Thu 2 Jun 2022
Marnie Chesterton and guests take a walkabout through 70 years of science.
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Monkeypox, Pompeii aDNA, and Elephant Mourning Videos
Thu 26 May 2022
Why are non-African monkeypox cases causing concern?
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Buried Mars Landers, Freezing Species, and Low-Tide Archaeology
Thu 19 May 2022
Why Nasa's Marsquake monitor is powering down for good.
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Running Rings Around Matter
Thu 12 May 2022
A remarkable image of the supermassive black hole at the middle of the Milky Way.
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Precious Metals, Earlier Eggs, and Meaningful Meteorites
Thu 5 May 2022
How bacteria could soon harvest precious metals from your old phone.
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The Ebb and Flow of the Tidal Power Revolution
Thu 28 Apr 2022
What do we know about the mysterious cases of hepatitis in children?
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Building Better Engagement
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Why does scientific communication matter and how might it be done better?
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A Trip-Switch for Depression?
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Could magic mushrooms be the key to a revolution in treating depression?
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Declining Data, Climate Deadlines and the Day the Dinosaurs Died
Thu 7 Apr 2022
Without mass studies and free testing, how will the UK keep an eye on Covid?
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How can the UK get to zero carbon?
Thu 31 Mar 2022
With energy bills soaring, what's the best way to cut carbon use and keep the lights on?
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Racial inequality in UK science
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Improving diversity in science; heatwaves at both poles; finding the best hedge to plant.
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Global food security during Ukraine conflict
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Food supply risks; lead poisoning in birds; Covid monitoring; Artemis mission to moon.
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High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep
Thu 10 Mar 2022
UN talks on ocean protection; Covid鈥檚 effects on the brain; disruptions to Russian science
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Inside Science is now first on 蜜芽传媒 Sounds
Fri 4 Mar 2022
New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.
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Cyber frontlines in Ukraine
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Cyber war in Ukraine, global energy security, and the IPCC climate change report.
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World鈥檚 largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Exciting finds from the dinosaur age, and how human behaviour shapes climate predictions
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COVID-19: Beginnings... and endings?
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Is the pandemic coming to an end? Scientists weigh in.
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Fusion energy smashes world record
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Record-breaking energy extraction gets us closer to nuclear fusion at the UK-based JET lab
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The Continuing Story of the Nuclear Waste Bill
Thu 3 Feb 2022
As energy costs rise, a look at the legacy cost of radioactive waste.
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