From the bottom of the ocean, to the earliest days of the earth, life has managed to not just survive but thrive. We look at several cases which change our understanding of the earliest life on earth and just what that might mean for understanding life on this planet and beyond. From moving life fossilised in mud, to using isotopes to study metabolism and discovering whole new methods of getting food, life continues to astound researchers with its inventiveness.
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Episode 298 - Self healing materials, scratch tests and the crockmeter
Episode 297 - Antibiotic superweapons - hunter killer cells, dream teams and evolutionary history
Lagrange Point Episode 296 - Fighting back against hayfever, what histamines do for you, stopping travellers sickness
Episode 295 - Powerful and precise Lasers - Nobel Prize in Physics '18
Episode 294 - What is the biggest bird; Island Giants and dwarfs.
Episode 293 - Finding a fly in you drink, plus placebos on the brain - Ignobel Prize '18 Part 2
Episode 292 - Roller coasters for medical treatment - Ignobel Prize 2018 Part 1
Episode 291 - Concussion science, assessment frameworks and biomarkers
Episode 290 - The strange chemistry of exoplanets from their cores to atmospheres
Episode 289 - Unlikely alliances, from ancient virus and Koalas to farming fruit flies and coral alliances
Episode 288 - Tackling Fatbergs, Recycling Li-On_batteries and new uses for cooking oil
Episode 287 - Fighting back against fungal infections
Episode 286 - Fields Medal 2018 - Solving problems in mathematics with tricks from other fields
Episode 285 - Icey lakes on Mars, a planets worth of dust and unexplained oxygen
Episode 284 - Solar panels that work in the shade, using coal waste and greener concrete
Episode 283 - Dust storms carrying life, harming life and engulfing a planet
Episode 282 - More precise precision medicine plus last chance medications
Episode 281 - Interconnections between animals, ocean currents, climates and ecosystems
Episode 280 - Nanodiamonds, Stardust, Comets and erasing Stars
Episode 279 - Helping farmers fight back against climate change
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