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.

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