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Origins of life, Earthquakes in London, Frog plague, Ancient pollen
New research on the origins of life. How do scientists unpick the start of biology?
Stars, Fracking, Ice Cores, Drunken Chimps
Adam Rutherford examines new images from the Alma telescope of the earliest galaxies.
Women Scientists on Sexism in Science
Adam Rutherford presents a special programme on sexism in science.
Malaria drug, Listener , Imaging the singing voice, Classifying human species
Adam Rutherford presents news of a novel drug to potentially prevent and treat malaria.
Aphid-repelling wheat, National Institute for Bioscience, Global map of smell, Parrot mimics
Adam Rutherford examines results of a field trial of a new way to repel aphids from wheat.
Intrusive memories, Silent aircraft, Nuclear fusion, Pluto
Adam Rutherford investigates intrusive memories, silent aircraft, nuclear fusion and Pluto
Pluto: New Horizons
The flyby of Pluto. Adam Rutherford with early pictures from New Horizons space probe.
Pluto's surface, Increased Arctic ice in 2013, Linking brains together, Signals of fertility
Adam Rutherford presents news on the latest New Horizons images of Pluto's surface.
30/07/2015
Earth-like exoplanets;graphene origami; Hooke's Micrographia; Maize and soil erosion
Hiroshima radiation, Anthropocene, Bonobo noises, Physicist Henry Moseley
Adam Rutherford presents discussion on the radiation effects from the Hiroshima bomb.
Scottish GM ban, Earth's magnetic field, OCD, Birth of a new galaxy
Scottish GM ban, the Earth's magnetic field, life with OCD, and how galaxies are born.
20/08/2015
Gareth Mitchell asks whether paleolithic people ate carbs and why corals are in peril.
27/08/2015
How the brain creates meaning, the magic of maths, genetic switch for obesity and dust
El Nino, Sphagnum moss and peatlands, Inside Cern, Measuring air pollution with iPhones
Tracey Logan investigates the El Nino warnings and the search for the Higgs boson.
Homo Naledi, New spacesuit, Quantum biology, A possible cure for motion sickness
Tracey Logan investigates an ancient human and a zero-gravity space suit.
Pluto images, Space elevator, Insect migration, Imagination app
Adam Rutherford looks at the new photos of Pluto which were beamed back to Earth this week
Listeners' Science Questions
Adam Rutherford is ed by guests to answer listener questions.
Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity
Adam Rutherford is at Kew Gardens to discuss challenges in preserving global biodiversity.
Ethiopian genome, Coral nutrients, The hunt for gravitational waves, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Adam Rutherford meets Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
Time Travel in Science and Cinema
Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore time travel in science and cinema.
Animal experiments, Bees and diesel, Sense Ocean, Readability of IPCC report
Latest stats shows UK scientists used fewer research animals last year. Or did they?
Oxygen on comet 67P; Bees and antimicrobial drugs; Reproducibility of science experiments; Reintroduction of beavers
Oxygen detected on comet 67P doesn’t fit with models of early Solar System formation.
Grid cells and time, Boole, How your brain shapes your life
Tracey Logan unpicks how people's brains work and discusses maverick scientist Boole.
Sex-change tree, Pluto's cryovolcanoes, Sellafield's plutonium, Ant super-organisms
Adam Rutherford asks whether Britain's oldest tree has changed sex.
Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Melting Antarctic ice sheet will not lead to as big a sea level rise as previously thought
Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions
Ancient genome research shows the effect of the introduction of farming to Europe.
Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene
Adam Rutherford questions the latest government science funding review.
Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators
Adam Rutherford asks how models can help to predict floods and improve defences.
Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM
Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives Tim Peake advice on how to cope in space.
New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry
New Horizons Pluto update;friendly predatory bacteria;Christmas in the lab;human ancestry
31/12/2015
Adam Rutherford and guests answer listeners' science questions.
