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Deep Blue Notes: episode one


Wildlife recordist Chris Watson and spatial audio sound artist Prof Tony Myatt begin a three-part journey to the Sea of Cortez hunting for the song of the largest, and possibly loudest, animal that has ever lived: the blue whale


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 December 1, 2020  21m
 
 

Covid-19: how vaccines lead to immunity – podcast


With a number of Covid-19 vaccines seemingly on the way Nicola Davis talks to Prof Eleanor Riley about how they might help the body’s defence mechanisms fight the virus


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 November 26, 2020  15m
 
 

A more accurate way of measuring the effect of computer games


The Guardian’s UK technology editor Alex Hern speaks to Prof Andy Przybylski from the Oxford Internet Institute about pioneering new research on the impact of computer games on mental health


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 November 24, 2020  17m
 
 

From the archive: an interview with Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose (part 2)


The second part of Ian Sample’s 2016 interview with Prof Sir Roger Penrose, which includes a quantum theory of consciousness and the age-old question of whether mathematics is invented or discovered


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 November 19, 2020  18m
 
 

From the archive: an interview with Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose (part 1)


In this episode from 2016, the mathematician and physicist asks: has string theory become too fashionable? And do we place too much faith in quantum mechanics?


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 November 17, 2020  19m
 
 

Covid-19: what can we learn from the London blitz?


Ian Sample speaks to Prof Edgar Jones about the comparative psychological impacts of the blitz bombings of London and the Covid-19 pandemic


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 November 12, 2020  16m
 
 

Covid-19: what's up with the coronavirus cough?


Linda Geddes speaks to Prof Jacky Smith about one of Covid-19’s most consistent symptoms: the persistent dry cough


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 November 10, 2020  14m
 
 

Investigating the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius


Nicola Davis delves into the gruesome deaths caused by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius


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 November 5, 2020  16m
 
 

Covid-19: How do you make a vaccine?


With any future Covid-19 vaccine requiring its manufacturing process to be signed off as part of its regulatory approval for use on the general population, Madeleine Finlay talks to Dr Stephen Morris from the Future Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub about how vaccines are made at the volume and speed required for a mass vaccination programme


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 November 3, 2020  16m
 
 

Journey into a black hole: part 2


Madeleine Finlay takes Science Weekly on a trip to discover what it would be like to fall into a supermassive black hole


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 October 29, 2020  18m