A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 21 hours 45 minutes
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Neanderthals; Plague; Wind Tunnel; Music Timing; Stem Cells
Adam Rutherford asks: What did the Neanderthals ever do for us?
Higgs Boson; Neutrinos; Antarctic echo locator; Rainforest fungi; Alabama rot
Tiny particles and the huge and hugely expensive experiments needed in order to find them.
Personal genetics kits; Persister cells; Earthquake mapping; Scorpions
Personal genetics kits - useful service or unregulated, irresponsible and gimmicky?
Antarctica weather and climate change; GM Fish Oils; Melanin Fossils; Time Travel
The astrophysicists, the poker game, and the search for time travellers in our midst.
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
Who lived in Britain thousands of years ago, and how do we know?
Bacteriophages; Breath-detecting disease; Our bees electric and DNA Barcoding
Bacteriophages as a tool to fight infections; bees and their electric sensing for nectar
Antimicrobial soap; GAIA; Stone-age jellybones; Antarctica
The voyage to map a billion stars - the GAIA satellite camera is launched into space.
Horsemeat; NanoSims; Early bacteria; Crystallography
Scientists are ready to form the vanguard in the fight to protect UK food from criminals.
Badger culls; Douglas Mawson; Plastics; Uptalk
The global march of valley-girl 'uptalk' - now men too are upwardly inflecting.
Therapeutic hypothermia; Cameras on Gaia; Methane; Wine microbiota
Adam Rutherford toasts microbial 'terroir', the fungi and bacteria that make grapes unique