50. Inside Sentience
28 мин. 54 cек.17 июня 20240 Marnie Chesterton and guests mull over the saga of an AI engineer who believes his chatbot is sentient. Also, climate scientists propose a major leap in earth system modelling, that might cost £250m a…
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49. Inside Science is now first on BBC Sounds
1 мин. 8 cек.17 июня 20240 Looking for the latest episode? New episodes of Inside Science will now be available first on BBC Sounds for four weeks before other podcast apps.If you haven’t already, you can download the BBC Sound…
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48. The BBC at 100
50 мин. 39 cек.17 июня 20240 Recorded in front of an audience at Bradford’s National Museum of Science and Media, we’re delving into the next 100 years of broadcasting, examining the science and technology behind what we’ll watch…
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47. Covid – missing link found?
28 мин. 7 cек.17 июня 20240 Data collated from swab samples taken in Wuhan’s market in the early days of the Covid pandemic suggest animals sold in the market were carrying the virus at the time. It’s the strongest evidence yet…
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46. Ebola model, Partula snails, Malaria origin
30 мин. 42 cек.17 июня 20240 Zoonotic diseases are infections that transfer from animals to people, and include killers such as bubonic plague, malaria, ebola and a whole host of others. Trying to understand how diseases make the…
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45. Biodiversity
28 мин. 10 cек.17 июня 20240 The UN Convention on Biological Diversity summit, currently taking place in Montreal Canada, intends to develop ways of reducing the global loss of biological diversity by drawing up a series of inter…
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44. Science of Addiction
27 мин. 51 cек.17 июня 20240 The Science Gallery London at Kings College London, right under the Shard, is a brand new venue for the collision of art, science and culture, and its opening exhibition is called Hooked, a series of …
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43. Hyabusa 2 at Ryugu, deadly 1918 flu pandemic; WW2 bombing and ionosphere, teenage brain
28 мин. 26 cек.17 июня 20240 Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has arrived after more than a three year journey at the Ryugu asteroid which is just over half a mile long. It has successfully sent probes onto the surface and is sendin…
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42. New CFC emissions, Cannabis and the Environment, The Noisy Cocktail Party, Automated Face Recognition
28 мин. 36 cек.17 июня 20240 New CFC emissions
Researchers say that they have pinpointed the major sources of a mysterious recent rise in a dangerous, ozone-destroying chemical. CFC-11 was primarily used for home insulation but g…
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41. How maths underpins science
29 мин. 17 cек.17 июня 20240 Adam Rutherford and guests at the Hay Festival discuss how maths underwrites all branches of science, and is at the foundation of the modern world. His guests are the following. Professor Steve Stroga…
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40. CCR5 Mutation Effects, The Surrey Earthquake Swarm, Animal Emotions
37 мин. 57 cек.17 июня 20240 Some people have a genetic mutation in a gene called CCR5 that seems to bestow immunity to a form of HIV. This is the mutation which controversial Chinese scientist Jianqui He tried to bestow upon two…
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39. Net-Zero carbon target, Science Policy Under Thatcher, Screen time measures
31 мин. 37 cек.17 июня 20240 Net-Zero Carbon Target
The UK is set to become the first member of the G7 industrialised nations group to legislate for net-zero emissions after Theresa May’s announcement this week. The proposed legi…
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38. Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity
27 мин. 55 cек.17 июня 20240 Base editing is a technique for substituting the building blocks of DNA. It has only been around for a few years, so its use to apparently cure cancer was all the more remarkable, as BBC Health Corres…
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37. A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner
28 мин. 16 cек.17 июня 20240 How many Scientists does it take to cook Christmas dinner? Marnie seeks help from a food scientist, a geneticist, a doctor and a botanist to create the perfect festive feast.
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36. Cyber frontlines in Ukraine
28 мин. 15 cек.17 июня 20240 As conflict continues in Ukraine, there are invisible ‘cyber frontlines’ running in parallel to the physical fighting. We hear how the country’s tech scene is responding to the Russian invasion, as Mi…
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35. Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity
27 мин. 55 cек.17 июня 20240 Base editing is a technique for substituting the building blocks of DNA. It has only been around for a few years, so its use to apparently cure cancer was all the more remarkable, as BBC Health Corres…
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34. A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner
28 мин. 16 cек.17 июня 20240 How many Scientists does it take to cook Christmas dinner? Marnie seeks help from a food scientist, a geneticist, a doctor and a botanist to create the perfect festive feast.
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33. Ancient Amputation
28 мин. 40 cек.17 июня 20240 The discovery of a body missing a foot in a thirty one thousand year old grave suggests our ancient ancestors may have been capable of performing complex surgery. The foot seems to have been cleanly a…
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32. Game changers
28 мин. 27 cек.17 июня 20240 Nations are racing to protect 30% of the planet by 2030 in an attempt to halt biodiversity loss, but one novel approach may be able to safeguard species under threat of imminent extinction. Vic visite…
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31. Oldest cave picture; the Anthropocene under London; a new scientist for the £50 note
29 мин. 19 cек.17 июня 20240 What could be the oldest figurative cave paintings in the world have been found in a cave complex in remote Borneo. A reddish orange depiction of an animal that could be a Banteng (wild cattle found i…
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30. Bovine TB and badger culling, Shrimp hoover CSI, Shark-skin and Turing
30 мин. 38 cек.17 июня 20240 The Bovine TB Strategy Review has just been released. It contains a review of the science and offers advice and guidance to Government ministers on how to eradicate this costly and hard to manage dise…
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29. X-Rays on Mercury, Monkey Tools, Music of Molecules, AI Drivers
34 мин. 57 cек.17 июня 20240 The 2019 Royal Society Summer Science exhibition in London is free to enter and continues until Sunday 7th July. BBC Inside Science this week comes from the Society’s HQ in central London.BepiColombo …
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28. Can we get plastic waste under control?
27 мин. 53 cек.17 июня 20240 As the UN tries to get a global agreement on plastic waste we hear from two delegates at the conference in Ottawa; John Chweya, a Kenyan waste picker, and plastics scientist, Steve Fletcher, discuss t…
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27. Fracking Science
32 мин. 37 cек.17 июня 20240 The government has lifted a moratorium on fracking imposed in 2019 following a series of small earthquakes caused by exploratory drilling. The British Geological Survey was asked to investigate, we s…
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26. Coronavirus - new variants
34 мин. 16 cек.17 июня 20240 The virus which causes Covid 19 is continuing to evolve, but into several different closely related strains rather than more new variants such as Delta and Omicron. Ravi Gupta, Professor of Clinical M…
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25. Avian flu
29 мин. 18 cек.17 июня 20240 Avian or bird flu is normally seasonal, disappearing as migratory birds leave for winter. However a new strain which seems to spread more easily between wild birds and into poultry has led to the deat…
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24. The BBC at 100
50 мин. 39 cек.17 июня 20240 Recorded in front of an audience at Bradford’s National Museum of Science and Media, we’re delving into the next 100 years of broadcasting, examining the science and technology behind what we’ll watch…
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23. Human Consciousness: Could a brain in a dish become sentient?
33 мин. 32 cек.17 июня 20240 As the field of neuroscience advances, scientists are increasingly growing brain tissue to study conditions like autism, Alzheimer's and Zika virus. But could it become conscious? And if so, how far a…
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22. Antarctic, Kew, Paleogenomics, Sea birds
27 мин. 56 cек.17 июня 20240 The Thwaites glacier in Western Antarctica is twice the size of the UK and accounts for about 4% of sea level rise, but what is unknown is whether the glacier will collapse as a result of environmenta…
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21. Rat eradication; elephant talk; the rise of the dinosaurs; physics of snooker
28 мин. 21 cек.17 июня 20240 On the remote island of South Georgia, the invasion of rats from passing ships has wreaked havoc on the local wildlife. But the South Georgia Heritage Trust announced this week that all rats have been…
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20. CO2 and rice, Underground farming, Ancient interstellar asteroid, Microplastics air pollution
33 мин. 24 cек.17 июня 20240 New research suggests that rice will be depleted in important B vitamins and minerals by rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Adam Rutherford to talks to Kristie Ebi of the University of Washington, o…
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19. Hay Festival
42 мин. 4 cек.17 июня 20240 Adam Rutherford and his guests at the Hay Festival, neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan, acoustic engineer Professor Trevor Cox and science writer Dr Philip Ball discuss what scientists learn when thing…
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18. Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat
37 мин. 12 cек.17 июня 20240 The effects of human-made noise on the natural world has been surprisingly little studied. Hanjoerg Kunc at Queen's University in Belfast has collected all experimental data on the effects of anthropo…
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17. Antarctic melt speeds up, Antarctica's future, Cryo-acoustics, Narwhals
32 мин. 19 cек.17 июня 20240 Adam Rutherford goes totally polar this week with news of accelerating ice melt in Antarctica, two visions of the continent's future, and the sounds of collapsing icebergs and the songs of narwhals.Tw…
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16. Hyabusa mission; ProtoDUNE neutrino detector; Caledonian crow skills; Koala microbiome
28 мин. 4 cек.17 июня 20240 Yesterday a small Japanese ion-thruster spaceship arrived at its destination after a three year and half year, 2 billion mile journey. Hyabusa2 is currently floating alongside the asteroid known as 16…
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15. Out of Africa, Predicting future heatwaves, Virtual reality molecules, Life in the dark
31 мин. 2 cек.17 июня 20240 Scientists have found the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside Africa. A set of 96 stone tools has been found in the mountains of south-east China, which is the furthest afield this typ…
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14. Peatbog wildfires, Coral acoustics, Magdalena Skipper, Fuelling long-term space travel
31 мин. 53 cек.17 июня 20240 The wildfires on Saddleworth Moor may well be the most widespread in modern British history. Thanks to herculean efforts by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and the military, they are now ex…
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13. Liquid water on Mars, Early embryo development, Earth Biogenome Project, Marine wilderness
28 мин. 8 cек.17 июня 20240 The European Space Agency's satellite Mars Express has identified what we think is a subterranean lake of liquid near the south pole of the red planet. The question of water on Mars has been around fo…
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12. New Horizons' next mission, Helium at 150, The Beautiful Cure, Oden arctic expedition
28 мин. 19 cек.17 июня 20240 Astronomers this week have been warming up for an encounter as far from the Sun as ever attempted. It's the finale of the New Horizons mission which successfully passed Pluto in 2015 and is now on its…
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11. Capturing greenhouse gas, Beating heart failure with beetroot, Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision
28 мин. 10 cек.17 июня 20240 Researchers have found a way to produce a naturally occurring mineral, magnesite, in a lab, that can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, offering a potential strategy for tackling climate change. They've …
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10. Cavendish banana survival; Guillemot egg shape; Unexpected Truth About Animals; Tambora's rainstorm
28 мин. 17 cек.17 июня 20240 The last banana you probably ate was a type called Cavendish. But this, our last commercially viable variety is under severe threat, as the fungus, called Tropical Race 4, is laying waste to swathes o…
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9. Electronic brain probe; Rural stream biodiversity; Arctic weather research trip; Science book prize
28 мин. 11 cек.17 июня 20240 Scientists have shown how an electronic gadget, implanted in the brain, can detect, treat and even prevent epileptic seizures. Epilepsy is usually treated using anti-epilepsy drugs, but can cause seri…
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8. What's the problem with palm oil and should we be supporting sustainably grown oil? Virtual reality skin
30 мин. 6 cек.17 июня 20240 Palm oil is now such a dirty word for household products and processed food, that it often hides behind a list of dozens of pseudonyms (from the ubiquitous sodium laureth sulphate to the slightly more…
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7. Global Carbon Emissions; Parker Solar Probe and simulating swaying buildings
32 мин. 2 cек.17 июня 20240 Reports from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) in Madrid are saying that global warming is increasing and that we're not doing enough, fast enough, to change things. The World Meteorological O…
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6. First human drawing, Cycling genes, Oden Arctic expedition, Hello World
28 мин. 8 cек.17 июня 20240 A new discovery of abstract symbolic drawings on a rock has been found in the Blombos Cave, about 300 km east of Cape Town in South Africa. The fragment - which some say looks a bit like a hashtag - p…
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5. IPCC report, Cairngorms Connect project, grass pea, the Sun exhibition at Science Museum
28 мин. 4 cек.17 июня 20240 Adam Rutherford speaks to Dr Tamsin Edwards, a lecturer in Physical Geography at Kings College London and a lead author for the latest IPCC report. Dr Edwards describes what happens in the making of t…
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4. Old Dogs and Physics in Space
28 мин. 13 cек.17 июня 20240 How far back can we trace the ancestry of dogs? For just how long have they been following us around? The answer is for a very long time - long before humans settled down and developed societies. Scie…
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3. Science and Brexit, Antibiotic livestock growth promoters, Bepicolombo goes to Mercury
28 мин. 2 cек.17 июня 20240 How might Brexit affect UK Science? Why is feeding a 'last resort' antibiotic to farm animals not a good idea? Why is space probe Bepicolombo going to Mercury? Adam Rutherford is your host.This wee…
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2. Testing for immunity to COVID-19 and Citizen science on BBC Radio past and present
31 мин. 33 cек.17 июня 20240 This week, the Government’s target to be testing 100,000 a day for COVID-19 looks like it won’t be met. But we’ve heard about many people who experienced the virus mildly, or who’ve tested positive wi…
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1. Should the public wear face masks? Did SARS-Cov-2 escape from a laboratory in Wuhan?
29 мин. 24 cек.17 июня 20240 Advice about whether the public should wear face masks, to protect against infection by the coronavirus, differs around the world. In Europe, policy recommendations are mostly geared towards homemade…
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