Short Science Podcast 043

Welcome to the forty-third 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:

- Planck spies star dust

- students to test out Mephadrone

- dolphins stressed by human swimmers

- seaweed to conquer obesity

In this innovation special, we start off by talking to inventor Ryan Kerstein about disposable tourniquet, the Tournistrip. We chat to Tony Hickson of Imperial Innovations about how to develop and idea and hopefully get it to market. And pioneer of single incision laparoscopy, Mr Barry Paraskeva, tells us about his work.

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