Short Science Podcast 048

Welcome to the forty-eighth 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:

- should we make contact with extra-terrestrials
- new culprit in epilepsy
- purify your water with a cactus
- can a vegetable be wrong?

Emma kicks off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science looking at maths in the natural world.

Emma talks to Marc Baghdadi about his love of maths.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at the way maths governs the efficiency of the heart.

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/!

If you'd prefer to listen to the broadcast show (which contains some fabulous eighties music tracks) then join us live on http://www.icradio.com/ at 12-1pm (UK time) every Wednesday lunchtime or at any time for the listen again links!

Short Science Podcast 047

Welcome to the forty-seventh 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:

- volcanic ash - what's that all about?
- bone marrow suffers ash delays
- dwindling supplies of Helium-3
- brain split deals with multi-tasking

Emma kicks off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science looking scientific disasters - is the science really to blame?

Claire Primrose reports on the recent apology by the government to Thalidomide survivors.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at the way side effects of medications are monitored.

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/!

If you'd prefer to listen to the broadcast show (which contains some fabulous eighties music tracks) then join us live on http://www.icradio.com/ at 12-1pm (UK time) every Wednesday lunchtime or at any time for the listen again links!

Short Science Podcast 046

Welcome to the forty-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:

- the mathematical world of film editing
- first aid sadly neglected
- chimpanzees insist on fairness
- Google no match for a qualified 'Doc'



Emma kicks off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science looking at reproduction and development in the animal world.

Laura Freeman and Kieran O'Donnell tell us about their experience communicating their research findings on placental transmission of stress at the Big Bang Science Fair.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at the structure and function of the placenta.

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/!

If you'd prefer to listen to the broadcast show (which contains some fabulous eighties music tracks) then join us live on http://www.icradio.com/ at 12-1pm (UK time) every Wednesday lunchtime or at any time for the listen again links!

Short Science Podcast 045

Welcome to the forty-fifth 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:

- toads that predict earthquakes

- exercise your unborn baby

- bamboo monkey

- new superbug hits Staffordshire

Emma kicks off the capsules this week with a Capsule Science looking what makes diamonds harder than marshmallows.

Professor Vivette Glover tells us about her work on the effects of maternal stress on the foetus.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week looking at the structure and function of bones.

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/!

If you'd prefer to listen to the broadcast show (which contains some fabulous eighties music tracks) then join us live on http://www.icradio.com/ at 12-1pm (UK time) every Wednesday lunchtime or at any time for the listen again links!