Short Science Podcast 039

Welcome to the thirty-ninth 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:

- pluto changing colour

- sperm putting the moves on the egg

- winds carry migratory insects

- smoking, passive smoking and now third hand smoking

Emma kicks off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science looking at the contributions of Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Jane Goodall to science.

We hear about the 100 Women 100 Visions exhibition from Ellin Saunders, Sissie Wong and Professor Lesley Cohen.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at some mighty women of medicine - Marie Curie, Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.

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