Building robots to get kids hooked on STEM subjects
As a child Solomon King Benge loved Eric Laithwaite’s 1974 book The Engineer in Wonderland, based on the mechanical engineer’s 1966 Royal Institution Christmas lectures. After reading it he asked his ...
16 Feb 202419min
‘It reflects the society we live in where a young person does not feel that life is worth living’
A drive to reduce suicide mortality rates is a key indicator of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Psychiatrist Shekhar Saxena, who led the World Health Organization’s mental health and...
9 Feb 202428min
‘Blue foods’ to tackle hidden hunger and improve nutrition
As a nutrition and planetary health researcher, Christopher Golden takes a keen interest in the second of 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and its aim to end hunger.But Golden’s researc...
2 Feb 202423min
People need more than cash to rise out of poverty
Poverty is about more than just meeting basic material needs, says Catherine Thomas. Its corrosive effects are also social and psychological, causing people to feel marginalized and helpless.Thomas’s ...
26 Jan 202421min
Chandrayaan and what it means for India's brain drain
In August the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft touched down, making India only the fourth to have successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon. In this special episode of the Working Scientist podcast, Somak ...
14 Dec 202326min
Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art
For a three-year period as a postdoctoral researcher, molecular biologist and visual artist Daniel Jay was given both a lab and a sudio to work in. In the final episode of this six-part Working Scient...
8 Dec 202332min
How to create compelling scientific data visualisations
Data form the backbone of the scientific method, but it can be impenetrable. In the penultimate episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about art-science collaborations, Julie Gould ...
1 Dec 202329min
How ChatGPT and sounds from space brought a “luminous jelly” to life
GUI/GOOEY is an international online exhibition that explores digital and technological representations of the biological world.In the fourth episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series ...
24 Nov 202328min
