Short Science Podcast 055: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Welcome to the fifty-fourth episode of the Short Science Podcast!

Welcome to the fifty-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:

- asteroid sample hits terra firma

- heart pills linked to deadly cancer

- artificial life shouldn’t gain a life of its own

- Legionnaire’s disease lurks under the bonnet

- BP downplaying oil loss

- internal radiation to get on top of cancer

- popping bubbles don’t disappear

- cancer drug stops blindness

We continue our new features in the show this week, including the Short Science News Archive and Statistic of the week.

Emma presents a Capsule Science on fossil fuels, while Elizabeth examines the impact of the oil spill on the ocean and wildlife.

Plus we hear from Short Scientists around the world about their views on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

To be included in the show, leave any thoughts, questions or ideas on the Short Science answerphone +44 (0)7401 856 681, or send us an email to studio@shortscience.co.uk. More details can be found on our website www.shortscience.co.uk!

Correction: Alysha and Brandi would like to make a correction to their summary of the oil spill. There are currently 40 000 gallons of oil being released a day, not 210 000 as mistakenly quoted.

Short Science Podcast 031

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

Join Elizabeth Hauke for this very special edition of Short Science.

In this special end-of-year show, we're taking a look back at the very best Short Science 2009. And due to popular demand, there will be another best-of show next week, so if your best bits aren't included today, listen in next week!

Featuring our very first ever capsule, with Georgie taking us through the basics of anti-matter. Plus interviews with Professor Robert Winston, and Natty Adams, chip musucian extraordinaire! And, bearing in mind all that festive excess, there's the alcohol capsule as well. We finish with stand up comedian Rob Broderick, rapping about skin moles.


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 check out www.icradio.com/shortscience for the listen again links!

Short Science Podcast 010

Welcome to the tenth edition of the Short Science Podcast.

Join Elizabeth and special guest presenter Gareth for all the very best science in brief!

We kick off the podcast with a few prominent science news headlines from the week including:

- better bone implants beckon

- feed your cancer to death

- the science of booze

- listerine resolves nerve injury

Gareth provides a capsule science this week on the future of nuclear fusion as an energy source.

Before Georgie jetted off to LA in preparation for our 'Science in Showbusiness' special next week, she caught up with Tom Pickerell of the Shellfish Association of Great Britain to find out about his life in science.

Elizabeth rounds off the capsules this week with Capsule Medicine, taking a look at just what is the deal with alcohol.

And for a bit of light relief after all this mighty serious science (!) a short quiz, and a maths connundrum for you to take a crack at! Just send in your answers by 10am (UK time) on Thursday 6th August.

Contact us with your comments and suggestions at studio@shortscience.co.uk.

Send us your requests for topics to cover, or offer up your science and join us on the show!

Visit our website for more information http://www.shortscience.co.uk/.You can also join our guests by posting your profile and/or your 'Capsule Science'.

If you want to listen to the broadcast show (which includes some light musical interludes) then catch us live on Thursdays at 12-1pm or listen again - all at http://www.icradio.com/.