Q&A: Knuth, curry and kettles
Another month, another brilliant panel, another romp through your mind bending questions. Physicists Tony Padilla and Toby Wiseman, archaeologist Emma Pomeroy and educator Andrew Morris help Chris Smi...
8 Aug 202357min
Hydrogen: fuel or folly?
This week, we're turning to the subject of hydrogen and its potential to play a role as a cleaner fuel in future. Could hydrogen be the answer to our energy conundrum? Like this podcast? Please help u...
1 Aug 202329min
Global boiling, and crashed crafts on Mars
Sweltering temperatures wreak havoc across Europe and North America, so what needs to be done to bring them down? We hear from the Cambridge scientist who wants to create the largest ever DNA and heal...
28 Juli 202327min
How AI will actually change the world
It's been quite the ride in the realm of artifical intelligence over the past year or so. As impressive as advancements in machine learning have been, however, few experts are worried about bots takin...
25 Juli 202330min
Alzheimer's drug, and algae vegan vitamins
A new drug in the fight against Alzheimer's disease: how does it work? Plus, we'll also have the latest on measles cases in London, look at the calls to reset the lunar clock, and could algae help peo...
21 Juli 202327min
Antidepressants: the ongoing debate
We'll be exploring depression, what causes it, and whether antidepressants or other treatments hold the key to solving it. Amongst our guests is psychologist Gordon Harold, speaking on how depression ...
18 Juli 202329min
Feeling the heat and hearing the silence
The mercury rises as record temperatures are recorded across the world. But what's driving them? Also ahead: the sound of silence. We'll be finding out why scientists think it's not just the absence o...
14 Juli 202327min
Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs
It's a Question and Answer special this week. You supply the questions and we pose them to a panel of expert guests. Joining us this time, biologist and author Tom Ireland, marine scientist Liberty De...
11 Juli 20231h
