EPISODE · Sep 9, 2010 · 28 MIN
Material: 9th September 2010
from Material World · host BBC Radio 4
Quentin Cooper presents this week’s digest of science in and behind the headlines. In this edition; Business Secretary Vince Cable has unveiled plans for a squeeze on public funding for scientific research. Quentin discusses what this could mean for British Science. An attempt to answer the question of why human evolution defies the principles of natural selection and why, although we dominate the planet, we have become the weakest ape, physically. The European eel is on the decline with no obvious reason why. The ‘Eeliad’ project will use GPS find out what happens on their migration across the Atlantic Ocean. A week before the So You Want To Be A Scientist final, Nina Jones and her mentor Dr Bernie Hogan talk to Quentin about their findings as they continue to analyse the results from their Facebook experiment.
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Quentin Cooper presents this week’s digest of science in and behind the headlines. In this edition; Business Secretary Vince Cable has unveiled plans for a squeeze on public funding for scientific research. Quentin discusses what this could mean for British Science. An attempt to answer the question of why human evolution defies the principles of natural selection and why, although we dominate the planet, we have become the weakest ape, physically. The European eel is on the decline with no obvious reason why. The ‘Eeliad’ project will use GPS find out what happens on their migration across the Atlantic Ocean. A week before the So You Want To Be A Scientist final, Nina Jones and her mentor Dr Bernie Hogan talk to Quentin about their findings as they continue to analyse the results from their Facebook experiment.
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Material: 9th September 2010
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