How do you solve a problem like CO2? As the curtain closes on the world’s most important climate summit, we talk to a scientist who was at COP 28 and is working to solve our carbon dioxide problem. Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer thinks saving the planet is still Mission Possible - but key to success is turning the climate-busting gas, CO2, into something useful. And as Director of the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions at Heriot-Watt University and the UK’s Decarbonisation Champion, she has lots of innovative ideas on how to do this. She also has a great climate-themed suggestion for what you should say when someone asks your age… Produced by Gerry Holt
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Sheena Cruickshank on the wonders of the human immune system
John Taylor on being an inventor
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Caroline Dean reveals the genetic secrets of flowering
Carlo Rovelli on why time is not what it seems
Callum Roberts on the urgent need for marine conservation
Stephen Reicher on the psychology of crowds
Clare Grey on the Big Battery Challenge
John Burn and the genetics of cancer
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Wendy Barclay and the flu virus
Eugenia Cheng on the mathematics of mathematics
Eben Upton on Raspberry Pi
Adrian Thomas on the mechanics of flight
Ellen Stofan on being NASA chief scientist
Tim Birkhead on bird promiscuity
Steve Cowley on Nuclear Fusion
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