成人快手 Radio 4 - 成人快手 Inside Science

成人快手 Inside Science Podcast

A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.

Updated: weekly

Episodes available: indefinitely

Origins of life, Earthquakes in London, Frog plague, Ancient pollen

Thu 4 Jun 2015

New research on the origins of life. How do scientists unpick the start of biology?
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Self-adapting robots, Artificial intelligence in medicine, Ageing healthily

Thu 28 May 2015

Tracey Logan examines technology to enable robots to remain fully autonomous when damaged.
El Nino, Echolocation, Seasons, Snakes

Thu 21 May 2015

Studying human echolocation at the quietest place on earth.
Seasonal Variation in Immunity, Chemosynthesis, Role of the ISS, Storing Digital Data in DNA

Thu 14 May 2015

New research on seasonal variation in people's immune systems. With Adam Rutherford.
Listeners' Science Questions

Thu 7 May 2015

Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science in the news.
Nepalese Earthquake, Monkey Hands, Maritime Light Pollution, Light in Bacteria

Thu 30 Apr 2015

The earthquake in Nepal, monkey dexterity, maritime light pollution and light in bacteria.
Healthy Guts; Future High Speed Trading; Body Clocks and Colour; William Smith's Geology Map

Thu 23 Apr 2015

How the gut bacteria of isolated communities shed light on diseases in the western world.
Hubble Space Telescope at 25

Thu 16 Apr 2015

The Hubble Telescope and its contribution to shaping our understanding of the cosmos.
Legacy of Messenger, Computer Touch, AI and Traumatic Forgetting, Stained Glass Restoration

Thu 9 Apr 2015

Dr Lucie Green examines the legacy of the Messenger mission to Mercury.
Invasive Species, Coral Seaview Survey, Evolution of the Brain, A New Virtual Reality

Thu 26 Mar 2015

Should people embrace the changes resulting from invasive alien species?
Genetic Map of the British Isles, Drones for Conservation, Lab Photosynthesis, Solar Eclipse

Thu 19 Mar 2015

Genetic map of British Isles, drones for conservation, lab photosynthesis, solar eclipse.
Large Hadron Collider Run Two, Flooding, Nasa's Biggest Rocket, Violin Evolution

Thu 12 Mar 2015

Large Hadron Collider opportunities and the acoustics of the violin. With Adam Rutherford.
Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; Women in science; Ceres

Thu 5 Mar 2015

Encoding memories; 350 years of the science journal; women in science; arrival at Ceres.
Artificial Intelligence, Desalination, History of Forensics, Music from Cells

Thu 26 Feb 2015

Adam Rutherford examines a significant step towards the intelligent computer.
Alzheimer's Disease, False Memory, Diamond Light Source, Twins in Space

Thu 19 Feb 2015

The need for new treatments for Alzheimer's, a twin space experiment and false memories.
Earth's Core; What Can Chemistry Do for Us?; Ocean Acidification; Darwin Day

Thu 12 Feb 2015

Adam Rutherford investigates new insights into what lies at the centre of the Earth.
Goshawk, Cosmic Renaissance, Carl Djerassi and Charles Townes

Thu 5 Feb 2015

Hunting tactics of goshawks and the men who invented the contraceptive pill and the laser.
Climate change belief; Anthropocene era; Eyes on the sea; Origins of multicellular life

Thu 29 Jan 2015

Perceptions of climate change, the Anthropocene era and a new theory of cell evolution.
GMOs; International Year of Light; Coral health

Thu 22 Jan 2015

Proposed failsafe for genetically modified organisms and the International Year of Light.
International Year of Soils

Thu 15 Jan 2015

Adam Rutherford takes a special look at the role soils play in providing for our planet.
Venus mission, Science highlights for 2015, Sonotweezers, Tsunami 10 years on

Thu 8 Jan 2015

Mission to return to our planetary neighbour Venus and astronomy highlights in 2015.
Listeners' Science Questions

New Year's Day 2015

Adam Rutherford and guests answer listeners' science questions.
Microplastics; Holey Ice; Vesalius; Overeating

Thu 18 Dec 2014

Tiny plastic particles have been found polluting the deep ocean sediment.
Water on Comets; DNA in Space; Sounds of the Ocean; Science in Fashion

Thu 11 Dec 2014

Earth's water does not come from comets, the recent Rosetta mission suggests.
Orion Launch; Fake Mars trip; XDNA; Richard the Third's skeleton

Thu 4 Dec 2014

A NASA space capsule which could transport humans to Mars is set to make its maiden flight
Campylobacter in Chicken; Artificial Intelligence Guru Demis Hassabis; Sexology; Lucy

Thu 27 Nov 2014

The Food Standards Agency reports that 70 per cent of supermarket chicken is contaminated.
Comet landing detects organics molecules; Lunar Mission One; Biological warfare

Thu 20 Nov 2014

Philae lander detects organic molecules on Comet 67P.
Rosetta; Thought-controlled genes; Biophonic Life; Arecibo message 40 years on

Thu 13 Nov 2014

Adam Rutherford discovers what is happening now that Rosetta's lander has touched down.
Science of ageing; Microneedles; Firelab; Rosetta; Scientific authorship

Thu 6 Nov 2014

Adam Rutherford asks if science can offer answers to our rapidly ageing population.
The Making of the Moon

Thu 30 Oct 2014

Lucie Green investigates the past, present and future of the moon.