Episode 516 - How plants handle too much or too little light
Too much or too little light can cause serious problems for plants. Light levels are not simply a...
18:25
Episode 515 - Do you really need oxygen for oxidation
How does chemistry change when you travel to another planet? When it comes to scientific...
13:11
Episode 514 - Pushing water to the limits on earth and in space
What happens when you push water to the limits on earth and in Space? Water has really weird...
11:12
Episode 513 - An eerie glow in the Solar System
How do you measure the solar system and the universe whilst being inside of it? Too much light is...
16:39
Episode 512 - Analyzing aftershocks and predicting earthquakes
Forecasting an earthquake is serious business, but it's not like the weather. Why are earthquakes...
18:31
Episode 511 - How the earliest brains developed and handle touch
Peering into the history of brains with some amazing tiny fossils. How did the earliest brains...
16:59
Episode 510 - Fungi spreading across the planet and wiping out toxic soils
Fungi have an amazing ability to spread across continents but stay linked as a family lineage....
17:31
Episode 509 - What connects spicy food, proteins and your gut
How is your gut connected to the rest of your body? How does your nervous system connect to your...
17:53
Episode 508 - Finding your way as a fish along rivers and into the deep
How can fish keep themselves stable in a fast flowing river? What's the best way to stay on track...
17:36
Episode 507 - Peering beneath Mars’ surface
How does a single sensor help change your outlook on a planet? A single small seismometer on...
16:04
Episode 506 - Assimilating all microbes in it’s path to chow down on Methane
How have microbes changed the course of life on our planet? How has our atmosphere changed as a...
15:41
Episode 505 - Complex ocean currents sustaining life across the depths
Ocean currents can have global impacts shaping our climate and life in the seas and onshore. How...
15:58
Episode 504 - Looking inside living cells with Bioorthogonal chemistry
A big prize like the Nobel for Chemistry doesn't appear out of nowhere. To win a Nobel Prize, a...
18:49
Episode 503 - Blending nanotubes and living cells
Episode 503 - Blending nanotubes and living cells
15:31
Episode 502 - Ignobel prizes ’22 - Blind dates and Mother Ducks
We celebrate the Ignobel prizes for 2022 with science that makes you laugh and then think. What...
14:56
Episode 501 - The journey of the mandarin
Mandarin oranges are very closely related but also incredibly diverse. A quirk of cloning means...
17:30
Episode 500 - Forest helping pump water and create rain
Plants harness the energy from the sun for so much more than photosynthesis. You have a beating...
19:00
Episode 499 - Air and atmospheres on exoplanets
CO2 gets a lot of bad press on earth, but in space, it could actually be incredibly helpful. On...
18:54
Episode 498 - Proteins, MRNA and fighting back against cancer
How can we develop new treatments to tackle antibiotic resistance and tumors. Antibiotics were...
12:58
Episode 497 - Wearable med-tech inside and out
Wearable medical devices inside and outside of your body. Understanding what's happening inside...
18:03
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