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Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects.
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"For me science isn't a subject, it's a perspective. There are fascinating scientific aspects to everything from ancient history to the latest gadgets, outer space to interior decorating; and each week on The Material World we try to reflect the excitement, ideas, uncertainties, collisions and collaborations as science continues its never-ending voyage into the unknown".
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Urban Ecology
Naturalists have typically headed off into the blue yonder to learn about nature, but for most of us – and most creatures – natural worlds have been displaced by built environments. Quentin Cooper talks to Mark Dion, conceptual artist and creative force behind a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum, Systema Metropolis, and Richard Fuller, urban ecologist from Sheffield University, about the ecological delights to be found on our city doorsteps.
Totalitarian Science
As Radio 4’s season of science dramas continues with Stephen Poliakoff’s Breaking the Silence – the story of an engineer struggling to complete his invention in Lenin’s Russia – Quentin hears how science fares under dictatorships from historian Paul Josephson, and Russian émigré Eugene Chudnovsky; also where authoritarian attitudesÌýdistort science today.
NEXT WEEK:ÌýÌýÌýHeart Strings: an exhibition devoted to the heart, and a drama tied to string theory...
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