Key scientific witnesses including former Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty are called to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. The BBC’s Jim Reed brings us his three key moments from the evidence heard over the past few days that have been dubbed “science week”.
NASA has managed to let loose a tool kit in the Earth’s orbit -- and you can even see it in the night sky with binoculars. Lucinda King explains how this is possible and if space junk is getting out of control.
The United Nations has warned we’re heading towards 3 degrees warming and another Conference of the Parties, known as COP, is about to take place. The BBC’s Georgina Rannard reminds us there is still hope for our planet to curb global warming.
The winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize was announced on Wednesday night. It’s Ed Yong for his book ‘An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us’. Marnie Chesterton was at the ceremony and nabbed Ed as well as Chair of the Judges Alain Goriely to find out what made this book the winner.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Harrison Lewis, Hannah Robins and Louise Orchard Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
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Ordnance Survey - Britain's 220-year-old tech company; Launching synthetic voices and personality test
Solar Orbiter launch; Mutational signatures in cancer; paleo-oncology
Coronavirus update, Typhoid Mary and 200th anniversary of the first sighting of Antarctica
Coronavirus outbreak in China; Genetic diseases in Amish communities and getting an Egyptian mummy to speak
Reproducibility crisis in science; Aeolus wind-measuring satellite; electric cars
Australian bush fires; Veganuary and LIGO
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 2 - Travel and Culture
The hidden history in our DNA - Part 1 - Sex and Disease
Ten years of Zooniverse; what happened to volcano Anak Krakatau and visualising maths
Earliest hunting scene cave painting; animal domestication syndrome
Global Carbon Emissions; Parker Solar Probe and simulating swaying buildings
What's the problem with palm oil and should we be supporting sustainably grown oil? Virtual reality skin
Noise pollution and wildlife; No till farming; Cornwall's geothermal heat
Soils and floods, Air pollution and ultra-low emission zones, detecting the drug Spice
Fracking moratorium; Bloodhound; Big Compost Experiment; transit of Mercury
African genomes sequenced; Space weather; sports head injuries
Organic farming emissions; Staring at seagulls; Salt and dementia
Ebola model, Partula snails, Malaria origin
Extinction Rebellion, UK net zero emissions and climate change; Nobel Prizes
HIV protective gene paper retraction, Imaging ancient Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body
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