大象传媒 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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Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance
Thu 9 Jun 2016
What can be done to tackle antimicrobial resistance, a massive threat that humans face?
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Fixing the Future
Thu 2 Jun 2016
From the Hay Festival, Adam Rutherford and guests ask how science can fix the future.
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GM plants; Svalbard Seed Vault; Directed Evolution; Dolphin Snot
Thu 26 May 2016
Adam Rutherford examines the science of GM plants as the Royal Society takes on the issue
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Climate Change, State of the World's Plants, Antibiotic Resistance, Telephone Metadata, Bat Detective
Thu 19 May 2016
How can complex science tell us what to do about the effects of climate change?
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Genetics and education, Eyam plague, Pint of science, Labradors and chocolate
Thu 12 May 2016
Adam Rutherford investigates a small but significant link between genetics and education.
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Human embryos, Transit of Mercury, Fishackathon, Fat labradors
Thu 5 May 2016
Scientists can keep human embryos alive for longer. Should they?
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Chernobyl, Drones, Tree crickets, Cern
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Have physicists at Cern found a new particle?
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EU membership and UK science, Quantum games, Fixing genes
Thu 21 Apr 2016
What are the consequences for UK science of leaving the EU? Adam investigates.
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Breakthrough Starshot, Moon mining, QB50, Solar Q&A
Thu 14 Apr 2016
Will a fleet of tiny craft, pushed by lasers, sail to a star?
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Air pollution monitoring, Britain breathing, Tracking Hannibal
Thu 7 Apr 2016
Dung Roman: the historical mess of Hannibal's elephant march may have been cleared up.
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Solar farm, Gravity machine, Kakapo
Thu 31 Mar 2016
As Europe's largest floating solar farm goes online, Adam Rutherford discusses solar power
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Flu, Coffee yeasts, Wave machine, Cochlear implants
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Predicting how the flu virus mutates could help make better vaccines to fight it.
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Recovering lost memories, Storks eat junk food, Oldest pine fossil, Spring flowering
Thu 17 Mar 2016
Lost memories can be recovered in mice. Are there implications for Alzheimer's patients?
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Gain-of-function research, Mindfulness, Women in science, Snake locomotion
Thu 10 Mar 2016
Tracey Logan investigates whether there is some science that is just too dangerous to do.
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UK's longest-running cohort study, The Brain prize, Hairy genetics
Thu 3 Mar 2016
Babies from the longest-running cohort study turn 70 this month.
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UK science and the EU, Sex of organs, Artificial colon, Gorillas call when eating
Thu 25 Feb 2016
What does a Brexit mean for UK science?
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Gravitational Waves, UK Spaceport, Big Brains and Extinction Risk, Conservation in Papua New Guinea
Thu 18 Feb 2016
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' gravitational wave queries to cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.
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Gravitational Waves Special
Thu 11 Feb 2016
Gravitational waves detected - scientists prove Einstein right after 100 years.
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UK pollinators' food, Brain implant, Holograms, Lunar 9
Thu 4 Feb 2016
How charting the UK's nectar-providing flowers could help pollinating insects.
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Zika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish
Thu 28 Jan 2016
What can science reveal about the Zika virus and microcephaly?
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Ancient Britons' DNA, Concorde's 40th Anniversary, Giant dinosaur, New planet?
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Adam Rutherford examines the genetics of ancient Britons and reminisces about Concorde.
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The 100,000 Genome Project, Stem cell doping, Nuclear waste, Dinosaur sex
Thu 14 Jan 2016
Adam Rutherford finds out how the 100,000 Genome Project is helping children and families.
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El Nino Special
Thu 7 Jan 2016
How the current El Nino event is affecting lives in the UK and around the world.
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New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry
Christmas Eve 2015
New Horizons Pluto update;friendly predatory bacteria;Christmas in the lab;human ancestry
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Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM
Thu 17 Dec 2015
Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives Tim Peake advice on how to cope in space.
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Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators
Thu 10 Dec 2015
Adam Rutherford asks how models can help to predict floods and improve defences.
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Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene
Thu 3 Dec 2015
Adam Rutherford questions the latest government science funding review.
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Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions
Thu 26 Nov 2015
Ancient genome research shows the effect of the introduction of farming to Europe.
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Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Thu 19 Nov 2015
Melting Antarctic ice sheet will not lead to as big a sea level rise as previously thought
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