Trees and plants use carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, removing it from the atmosphere. This episode of the podcast investigates how forest elephants help to make this process more efficient, and how their extinction will have negative effects on global warming. Read more [...]
Harry Verwayen has been Executive Director of the Europeana Foundation since May 2018. Europeana Collections is the largest digital repository of cultural data in the world. It provides access to over 60 million digitised items - books, paintings, photographs, Read more [...]
In this episode of the podcast Dr Illingworth investigates the research behind the increase of fungal infections amongst humans, and what it means for future climates. Read more [...]
In this episode, we expand on the topic of "icons in science". We need narratives about science, but we need to be careful with their implications. Read more [...]
Recent scientific research has found that radiation levels in parts of the central Pacific Ocean, where the United States conducted nuclear tests during the Cold War, are up to 1,000 times higher than in samples from areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters. This episode explores what this means for the islanders. Read more [...]
Robin Boast is Professor of Information Science and Culture at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In this episode, he speaks about how digital media have impacted our life and work environment. Read more [...]
Recent research has shown that across Africa a higher percentage of mosquito bites than previously thought take place at times when people are not protected by nets and insecticide. Read more [...]
Technoculture is a podcast launched in 2018 by Federica Bressan which consists of a series of one-on-one conversations with experts in the fields of technology, research, art, and science. Read more [...]
Recent research has shown how dung beetles use the sun, the wind, and even the stars to navigate. Join Dr Illingworth for a poetic investigation into the internal compasses of these fascinating insects. Read more [...]
This episode uncovers research which has has found an estimated 414 million pieces of human-made rubbish on Australia’s remote Cocos Islands. Read more [...]
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