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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Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; Women in science; Ceres
Thu 5 Mar 2015
Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; women in science; arrival at Ceres.
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Artificial Intelligence, Desalination, History of Forensics, Music from Cells
Thu 26 Feb 2015
Adam Rutherford examines a significant step towards the intelligent computer.
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Alzheimer's Disease, False Memory, Diamond Light Source, Twins in Space
Thu 19 Feb 2015
The need for new treatments for Alzheimer's, a twin space experiment and false memories.
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Earth's Core; What Can Chemistry Do for Us?; Ocean Acidification; Darwin Day
Thu 12 Feb 2015
Adam Rutherford investigates new insights into what lies at the centre of the Earth.
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Goshawk, Cosmic Renaissance, Carl Djerassi and Charles Townes
Thu 5 Feb 2015
Hunting tactics of goshawks and the men who invented the contraceptive pill and the laser.
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Climate change belief; Anthropocene era; Eyes on the sea; Origins of multicellular life
Thu 29 Jan 2015
Perceptions of climate change, the Anthropocene era and a new theory of cell evolution.
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GMOs; International Year of Light; Coral health
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Proposed failsafe for genetically modified organisms and the International Year of Light.
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International Year of Soils
Thu 15 Jan 2015
Adam Rutherford takes a special look at the role soils play in providing for our planet.
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Venus mission, Science highlights for 2015, Sonotweezers, Tsunami 10 years on
Thu 8 Jan 2015
Mission to return to our planetary neighbour Venus and astronomy highlights in 2015.
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Listeners' Science Questions
New Year's Day 2015
Adam Rutherford and guests answer listeners' science questions.
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Microplastics; Holey Ice; Vesalius; Overeating
Thu 18 Dec 2014
Tiny plastic particles have been found polluting the deep ocean sediment.
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Water on Comets; DNA in Space; Sounds of the Ocean; Science in Fashion
Thu 11 Dec 2014
Earth's water does not come from comets, the recent Rosetta mission suggests.
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Orion Launch; Fake Mars trip; XDNA; Richard the Third's skeleton
Thu 4 Dec 2014
A NASA space capsule which could transport humans to Mars is set to make its maiden flight
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Campylobacter in Chicken; Artificial Intelligence Guru Demis Hassabis; Sexology; Lucy
Thu 27 Nov 2014
The Food Standards Agency reports that 70 per cent of supermarket chicken is contaminated.
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Comet landing detects organics molecules; Lunar Mission One; Biological warfare
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Philae lander detects organic molecules on Comet 67P.
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Rosetta; Thought-controlled genes; Biophonic Life; Arecibo message 40 years on
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Adam Rutherford discovers what is happening now that Rosetta's lander has touched down.
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Science of ageing; Microneedles; Firelab; Rosetta; Scientific authorship
Thu 6 Nov 2014
Adam Rutherford asks if science can offer answers to our rapidly ageing population.
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The Making of the Moon
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Lucie Green investigates the past, present and future of the moon.
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Hobbit; Genetics of height; Solar science; Snails
Thu 23 Oct 2014
The 'Hobbit' skeleton - rewriting human history, but still controversial 10 years later.
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Ebola; Ada Lovelace Day; Space Weather
Thu 16 Oct 2014
What can science tell us about the virus at the centre of the current Ebola outbreak?
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Nobel Prizes 2014; Gauge; Genetics and Diabetes; UK Fungus Day
Thu 9 Oct 2014
Adam Rutherford hosts a post-match analysis of the 2014 Nobel Prizes for science.
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Women, Science and the Royal Society; Open Access Research
Thu 2 Oct 2014
Adam Rutherford asks the Royal Society about the decline in awards to female scientists.
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Cosmic inflation latest; Indian space success; Science and language; Wax Venus
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Claims of evidence for cosmic super-expansion just after the Big Bang are questioned.
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European ancestry; Cern is 60; Graphene plasters; Penguins
Thu 18 Sep 2014
How most present-day Europeans derive from at least three ancestral populations.
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Jack the Ripper; Future of Scottish science
Thu 11 Sep 2014
Examining the latest Jack the Ripper ID, and debating the future of Scottish science.
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Bardarbunga volcano; Geology in Minecraft; Synthesising opioids; Ammonia
Thu 4 Sep 2014
Adam Rutherford talks to researchers in Iceland studying the erupting Bardarbunga volcano.
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Manipulating mouse memory; London pollution; Nature of knowing; Snail fur
Thu 28 Aug 2014
Adam Rutherford shines a light on how the mouse brain processes memory.
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TB in the New World; Trusting Wikipedia; Shipwreck of the London; @LegoAcademics
Thu 21 Aug 2014
Adam Rutherford discovers that TB was introduced to the Americas from seals and sea lions.
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Anaesthesia; Chilean earthquakes; Strange weather; Jellyfish
Thu 14 Aug 2014
Will quantum physics bring us any closer to understanding how anaesthetics work?
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New dinosaur; GM chickens; Lightning; Rosetta; Diatoms
Thu 7 Aug 2014
Professor Alice Roberts reveals Laquintasaura, a new dinosaur found in South America.
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