The Microbial Majority
Inside your stomach, on your skin, in your mouth, and up your nose are bacteria. They are abundant and they play a significant role in making you, you. Join Tim and Syma as they talk to Aura Raulo and...
13 Nov 202535min
Entangled Futures: The Science and Promise of Quantum Computing
Synthesis:Quantum computing has been argued to be the next big thing in computing. But what exactly is it, and is the hype justified? We talk to Professor Ian Walmsley who leads has recently been appo...
30 Okt 202531min
What’s it like to be a bat? How do they see the world?
Tim and Syma talk to Yossi Yovel who is bringing together the disparate disciplines of ecology and neuroscience to help understand how animals see the world and communicate. Much of his work has focus...
9 Okt 202538min
Playing Lego with chemistry to build structures that could save the environment.
Omar Yaghi is a chemist with an extraordinary vision. The pioneer of MOFs (metal organic frameworks) - materials built from the molecular equivalent of LEGO bricks. He tells Tim and Syma about his hum...
3 Okt 202538min
Avian Affairs
Syma and Tim talk to Professor Joan Strassmann about the social life of birds. We cover a range of topics she writes about in her excellent new book, including flocking, social roosting, mating togeth...
25 Sep 202538min
The Decline of the Primate Handyman
Tim and Syma talk to Professor Dora Biro about animal behaviour and cognition. Want to know why your kitten behaves differently from you, or discover that chimps become less competent at using tools ...
14 Aug 202546min
Waspish Behaviour
In this weeks episode, Tim and Syma get the run down on wasps, courtesy of Seirian Sumner, entomologist and behavioural ecologist. Will Syma now forgive the wasps, following a recent encounter?Seirian...
7 Aug 202542min
Planet Hunters: Secrets of the Exoplanet Boom
Tim and Syma talk to Ray Pirrehumbert, author of Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction, about planets orbiting far away stars. They learn how these distant objects that we will never visit are ...
31 Juli 202540min
