Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?
AI tools that help researchers design new proteins have resulted in a boom in designer molecules. However, these proteins are being churned out faster than they can be made and tested in labs.To overc...
29 Nov 202413min
Fossilised faeces helps explain dinosaurs' rise to dominance
00:50 Fossilised faeces give news insights into dinosaurs’ diets and riseA huge collection of fossilised digestive contents has provided clues as to how dinosaurs grew to become the dominant animals o...
27 Nov 202431min
Squid-inspired pills squirt drugs straight into your gut
00:45 A squid-inspired device for needle-free drug deliveryInspired by squids’ ability to shoot ink, a team of researchers have developed swallowable devices that can deliver tiny jets of drugs direct...
20 Nov 202429min
Bone marrow in the skull plays a surprisingly important role in ageing
00:46 The role of skull bone marrow in ageingDuring ageing, bone marrow in the skull becomes an increasingly important site of blood-cell production. This is in stark contrast to most bones where the ...
13 Nov 202435min
’Rapture and beauty’: a writer's portrait of the International Space Station
Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize shortlisted novel Orbital is set inside an International Space Station-like vessel circling 250 miles above Earth. It looks at a day-in-the-life of the crew, investigati...
8 Nov 202426min
Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial 'energy factories' come in two different types
00:46 Mitochondria divide their labour to help cells thriveResearchers have uncovered that mitochondria divide into two distinct forms when cells are starved, a finding that could help explain how som...
6 Nov 202427min
REBROADCAST: Talking politics, talking science
This series was originally broadcast in 2020.Science and politics are not easy bedfellows - "Stick to the science" is a three part series which aims to find out why.In the third and final episode we t...
3 Nov 202423min
REBROADCAST: Politics of the life scientific
This series was originally broadcast in 2020.Science and politics are not easy bedfellows - "Stick to the science" is a three part series which aims to find out why.In this episode we're asking how po...
2 Nov 202424min
