Behind the hype, what’s the truth about Ida – the 47 million year old primate fossil from Germany. Why she isn’t the ‘missing link’. Nasa astronauts bid farewell to the Hubble Space Telescope which they’ve just repaired and made more powerful.
Plus, the perfect pitch for football and the ultrasonic frog.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 15 MAY 09Sex, Space and Earthquakes, its all in Science in Action from the BBC.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 07 MAY 09Why the hobbits had big feet, but small brains. Looking further into outer space than ever before, laying fallen soldiers to rest with DNA technology and the Turkish row over Darwin.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 30 April 09Everything you ever wanted to know about SWINE FLU but were afraid to askListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 24 April 09John Stewart looks at California's next move following a US ruling that greenhouse gases are actually harmful. We visit Florence for the tour with Galileo and look for exoplanets in outer space.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 17 April 09Obama, Obama ,Obama. Just what has the new US President done for science? John Stewart looks at the key changes in science policy brought by the new administration and asks where we go from here.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 10 April 09This week we talk to a physicist making an impact in both science and politics. Neil Turok has worked with the world’s leading physicists on developing theories of how the universe started.
He also set up AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Based in Cape Town AIMS is a unique institution offering postgraduate training in mathematical science to African students.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: The Final Frontier 3 April 09How did our universe begin? How did galaxies, stars and planets form? How did life begin and was there ever life on Mars? Why are we here? Jon Stewart investigates the big questions of the cosmos.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: Malaria map, the sun's fusion energy, after-life experiences and delving into the brain 27 Mar 2009This Week: Global Malaria map revealed; Riddle of the Sun’s fusion energy transfer solved; Near Death experiences and scientific testing; Using light to control specific cells in the brain. Presenter: Sue Broom. Producer: Peter McHugh.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: Secrets of Ageing 20 Mar 09This Week: Birds show how we are really ageing genetically; the global warming threat to the Antarctic revealed in shocking detail; using science to see if photos are really genuine; a new network of gas monitors hope to improve volcano eruption prediction; a breakthrough in crop resistance to the devastating stem rust disease. Presenter: Sue Broom. Producer: Peter McHugh.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: Mosquito Malaria Immunity 12 Mar 09This Week: Using the mosquitoes own immune system to stop malaria; the deep impact of deep sea fishing revealed for first time; GOCE – measuring the Earth’s gravity from space; and creating the super battery – powerful enough to replace a normal car engine. With Sue Broom.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: Horses & Humans 06 Mar 09This Week: Humans' earliest involvement with horses - did we milk them 5000 years ago? A new hybrid crop rich in protein to give 40% more yields; Business and science innovation – can the two mix? Watching the Earth heal itself after an Earthquake; and a near miss for Planet Earth. Presented by Sue Broom.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 12 Feb 09This week it’s the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882). We hear about Darwin the man and scientist and how his theory of evolution still drives leading research today. We ask why there are so many millions of species of animals and plants and find out how human and great ape genetics are both similar and different. And how about the future evolution of humanity – featuring robots?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 6 Feb 09This week: Snake! It could have eaten a cow, was the size of a car - 58 million years old and it was the biggest ever; Tree frogs could tell us where the most biodiversity can be found in tropical forests; finding how spiders make their webs with neutrino particles; training your brain to remember things can change your brain chemistry in only 12 hours; Iran launches its first satellite and the smallest exo-planet yet found is discovered...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 30 Jan 09This week: Locusts – we share the same brain chemicals and it’s the reason why they swarm; unravelling drought resistant crops genetic secrets; the 50th anniversary of the discovery of pheromones – we sniff out the latest research; boosting the MRI scanner – lasers, magnets and inert gases mark a great leap forward in its power to see inside the body;Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 23 Jan 09This week:
India’s ‘brown cloud’ – what’s causing the pollution is revealed; robots that will swim in arteries are carry out repairs inside the brain – it’s the world of microbots; mobile phones adapted to diagnose diseases anywhere in the world; human language – is it genetic or cultural? and President Barack Obama – where now for science in America.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 16 Jan 09This Week: fertilising the ocean with iron…a good idea?; could the right type of crops battle global warming?; is slower technology better technology in the long run?; watching Mount Etna; and a new way to move individual atoms, the quantum computer could be on the way…Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 09 Jan 08This week: 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy – we find out more; more earthquakes in Indonesia – we look at the seismology of the region; using particle physics to defeat old fine wine forgers; and a breakthrough in synthesising primordial life in the test tube...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 02 Jan 09Science in Action this week assesses the biggest bangs in science over the past twelve months and speculates on the fallout over this new year – such at the mightiest ever physics experiment under the Swiss Alps and around the world’s rocket launch pads. Jon Stewart discusses the year past and the one ahead with Jonathan Amos, editor of Science and Environment at BBC news.com, Los Angeles science writer KC Cole, and space engineer Richard Crowther.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SciA: 25 DecStem cells were behind some of the most dramatic developments in medical science in 2008 - such as a windpipe transplant created from a woman’s own bone marrow cells, and the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos by researchers in the UK. In Science in Action, Sue Broome looks back over an eventful year of breakthroughs and controversies, and asks leading stem cell researchers what comes next...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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