Short Science Podcast 036

Welcome to the thirty-sixth 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:

- could water vapour be a dangerous greenhouse gas

- vitamin bad news for colon cancer

- getting trapped in a footprint

- photocopying nano-ciruits onto cells

Emma kicks off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science looking at the concept of vectors.

Flaminia Catteruccia tells us about her work on mosquito reproduction and how it might help in the fight against malaria.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at examples of vector-bourne diseases including bubonic plague.

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!

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