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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.
El Nino Special
How the current El Nino event is affecting lives in the UK and around the world.
The 100,000 Genome Project, Stem cell doping, Nuclear waste, Dinosaur sex
Adam Rutherford finds out how the 100,000 Genome Project is helping children and families.
Ancient Britons' DNA, Concorde's 40th Anniversary, Giant dinosaur, New planet?
Adam Rutherford examines the genetics of ancient Britons and reminisces about Concorde.
Zika, Penguins, Erratum, Fossil fish
What can science reveal about the Zika virus and microcephaly?
UK pollinators' food, Brain implant, Holograms, Lunar 9
How charting the UK's nectar-providing flowers could help pollinating insects.
Gravitational Waves Special
Gravitational waves detected - scientists prove Einstein right after 100 years.
Gravitational Waves, UK Spaceport, Big Brains and Extinction Risk, Conservation in Papua New Guinea
Adam Rutherford puts listeners' gravitational wave queries to cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.
UK science and the EU, Sex of organs, Artificial colon, Gorillas call when eating
What does a Brexit mean for UK science?
UK's longest-running cohort study, The Brain prize, Hairy genetics
Babies from the longest-running cohort study turn 70 this month.
Gain-of-function research, Mindfulness, Women in science, Snake locomotion
Tracey Logan investigates whether there is some science that is just too dangerous to do.
Recovering lost memories, Storks eat junk food, Oldest pine fossil, Spring flowering
Lost memories can be recovered in mice. Are there implications for Alzheimer's patients?
Flu, Coffee yeasts, Wave machine, Cochlear implants
Predicting how the flu virus mutates could help make better vaccines to fight it.
Solar farm, Gravity machine, Kakapo
As Europe's largest floating solar farm goes online, Adam Rutherford discusses solar power
Air pollution monitoring, Britain breathing, Tracking Hannibal
Dung Roman: the historical mess of Hannibal's elephant march may have been cleared up.
Breakthrough Starshot, Moon mining, QB50, Solar Q&A
Will a fleet of tiny craft, pushed by lasers, sail to a star?
EU hip and UK science, Quantum games, Fixing genes
What are the consequences for UK science of leaving the EU? Adam investigates.
