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Science and Environment – Pod Academy
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Lively and entertaining podcasts on current research in science and environment, arts and culture, humanities and economics. It’s sound thinking.
Episodes
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The ethics of space exploration
When you use a SatNav, or check a modern weather forecast, you're using technology made possible by space exploration. Emerging space industries include tourism, and some tentative plans to mine asteroids, or the Moon, for rare materials. Space now has its lawyers, its policymakers, and even its...
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Schooling and flocking
They say a fish can fall in love with a bird, but where would they live? However, when it comes to fluid dynamics, birds and fish come from more similar neighbourhoods than you might think. This podcast is about the physics of fish schooling and bird flocking and how these animals use their fluid...
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Moving from old to new
How did we transition from candles to kerosene? or kerosene to electricity? What and when were the conditions ripe for energy transitions of our past? and what lessons do they have for us in the 21st century as we make a transition from high carbon intensity fossil fuels to renewable energy.. In...
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Translational medicine bringing a new cure for arthritis
Translational medicine is collaborative science that translates work in the laboratory into practical medical treatments - it is sometimes termed 'bench to bedside medicine'. Because it often includes trials on animals it can be controversial. So can animal testing be justified? Scarlett MccGwire...
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Stammering: latest research findings
There is well documented evidence that if you change how a stammerer hears they way they are speaking, they will stammer less. Using this finding, 10 years ago saw the introduction of new devices (especially in-ear devices) that purported to help people stop stammering. But these fluency aids…
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Commercial exploitation of research
These days most universities actively help their researchers develop their ideas into products for market. It's called the commercial exploitation of research. One such support is the Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) at Surrey University's Advanced Technology Institute, funded by the Engineering...
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Solar power: The burning answer?
We've got to beat global warming within 50 years, and renewables are the way to do it according to Professor Keith Barnham of Imperial College, London, author of The Burning Answer, in this conversation with Dr Radu Sporea of Surrey University's Advanced Technology Institute. Photovoltaics should...
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Terra Firma? John Milne and early seismology in Japan
Disaster and emergency management expert, Samantha Ridler, explores the beginning of modern seismology . Samantha Ridler The earth has, since it creation been convulsed by earthquakes. But mankind has only relatively recently come to study them in a scientific manner. And much of this is thanks…
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Maths isn’t standing still
Mathematician Vicky Neale, senior teaching associate in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics in the University of Cambridge and director of studies at Murray Edwards College, is excited. She’s been watching some recent breakthroughs that mathematicians around the world...
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The Fracking Debate
The UK government has just announced tax breaks for companies fracking for shale gas. Is that a sound investment in our future energy security, or a misguided waste of public money? Should the money have been allocated to renewables? Are fracking protesters just 'scaremongering'? Are these tax...
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Volcanoes, artists and scientists: why exploding mountains fascinate us all
Volcanoes - Andy Warhol painted them, scientists study them, tourists gawp at them and legendary vulcanologist Haraldur Sigurðsson has spent 50 years taking the temperatures of these exploding mountains.
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The struggle to achieve sustainability
The Rio Earth Summit was held exactly a year ago. This interview, made at the time by the Public Library of Science, explores how important, and how contested, are the issues of climate change and biodiversity.
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Michael Douglas, HPV and social justice
Michael Douglas has revealed his throat cancer was caused by HPV.
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Academy of Medical Sciences – Spring Meeting 2013
We report from the AMS Spring Meeting which brings together young doctors, who, inspired by their hands on experience with patients, also undertake clinical research into the causes and cures of a wide range of illnesses.
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Can Nintendo Wii help children with coordination difficulties?
Dyspraxia can lead to social isolation, anxiety and depression. Now researchers at Goldsmiths think playing with Wii Fit may help improve coordination.
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Yoga and mental health
Can yoga help people with mental health problems?
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The Mars rover Curiosity and life elsewhere in the universe
The Mars rover Curiosity found evidence that water once flowed on Mars. Now there is also evidence of organic compounds on the Martian surface. Astrobiologists are getting excited....
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How many people does it take to make a baby?
Groundbreaking new genetic research holds out the promise that no more babies will be born with mitochondria disease. But it raises big ethical questions. Adam Smith investigates.
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Oh, I see!
The vOICe technology is a computer programme that helps blind people see with sound. The software scans and converts visual information from a camera into a coded soundscape, which can be interpreted as a sort of ‘synthetic vision’ – effectively allowing the user to see with their ears!
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Noises off…..
We don't have earlids, like we have eyelids - so we have to hear sounds whether we like it or not. World famous sound recordist, Chris Watson, seen in the picture recording ants, talks to Ed Prosser about the noise pollution that bombards us day and night.
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In the morgue
"A human body is no different from the chicken that you buy. It needs refrigerating. You keep it cold, it doesn't go off." Forensic pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton takes us for a tour of the morgue.
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The sounds of space
We love those stunning images of the dark side of the Moon or colourful nebulae or rotating galaxies. But more and more astronomers are turning off their telescopes and opening their ears to the sounds of space.
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Doing DNA: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Adam Smith takes a tour of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Europe's leading genetics institute, home to the team that made the largest single contribution to the sequencing of the human genome.
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Oceans and climate change
If all the salt in the ocean could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s land surface it would form a layer more than 166 metres thick - about the height of a 40-storey building. Adam Smith discovers why the salt of the Earth is so important.
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Searching for new planets
NASA’s Kepler mission made some remarkable discoveries - Kepler-16b, 200 light years away and Kepler 22-b, a planet that may have the perfect conditions for life.
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The Earth is not so solid – earthquakes, volcanoes and climate change
Earthquakes and volcanoes capture our imaginations for the power they wield. But most of us are unaware that they are also connected to climate change
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In search of lost bees
Stephan Wolf and Dino McMahon use radar to track bee behaviour. By doing so, they hope to find out why bee populations have, in some parts of the world, gone into such rapid decline.
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Genome Biology
The challenges of identifying disease genes using exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing.
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Lively and entertaining podcasts on current research in science and environment, arts and culture, humanities and economics. It’s sound thinking.
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