Short Science Podcast 038

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

Join Elizabeth 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 we use human movement to generate power

- Alzheimer's gene may make you smarter

- moon dust obscuring mirrors

- anti-wrinkle cream actually does what it says on the tin

We kick off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science looking at suicidal behaviour in the animal kingdom.

Roving reporter Chrissie Douglass talks to Professor Steve Fuller, reknowned sociologist in the field of science.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at suicide in the UK and beyond.

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!

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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