Short Science Podcast 034

Welcome to the thirty-fourth episode of the Short Science Podcast!

Join Elizabeth and Emma for all the very best science in brief.

We kick off the podcast with a few prominent science news headlines from the week including:

- alligators and birds have similar breathing mechanisms

- nanotechnology to heal blood vessels from the inside out

- Newton really did have anapple experience

- weaker wine may combat cancer risk

Emma kicks off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science considering the concept of 'flow'.

Roving reporter Chrissie Douglass looks at heart disease studies hitting the headlines and talks to Dr Paul Evans, Senior Lecturer at the British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Unit at Imperial College, about his work on broccoli and the heart.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at just how heart disease can kill you.

And for a bit of light relief after all our mighty serious science, we have the quiz, and your science pub-quiz trivia to take a crack at! Just send in your answers to studio@shortscience.co.uk by 10am on Wednesday 27th January for a chance to win!

Please send in any comments or questions to studio@shortscience.co.uk. Send us in suggestions for science topics that you think we should cover, or offer up your own science and join us on the show. See our website for more information http://www.shortscience.co.uk/!

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