Science Weekly

Science Weekly

Alok Jha and the Guardian’s science team bring you the best analysis and interviews from the worlds of science and technology.

14 Episodes of this Podcast:

Pages: 12

Aliens and the future of planet Earth

Published: 2009-06-29 06:06:55

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees discusses the prospects for Earth, humankind … and extraterrestrials

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Science Weekly: Charles Darwin - man of letters

Published: 2009-06-22 08:13:11

Charles Darwin loved poetry, but most of all he liked a good novel. Ruth Padel, Steve Jones and Gillian Beer look at his literary tastes and writing style

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Science Weekly with Michio Kaku: Impossibility is relative

Published: 2009-06-15 01:41:46

Michio Kaku claims that the science fiction of Star Trek is closer to reality than we might think

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Science Weekly: The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

Published: 2009-06-08 12:51:42

Tim Radford talks to Ian Sample about the joys of the Guardian Science Book Club and this month's title, The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

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Science Weekly: Fossil Ida and the astronaut

Published: 2009-06-01 09:51:18

Adam Rutherford from Nature discusses the media reaction to the discovery of fossil Ida, and we find out more about Timothy Peake - Britain's first official astronaut

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Science Weekly: Hay Festival special

Published: 2009-05-25 06:12:34

Nicholas Stern, Anthony Giddens and Marcus Brigstocke look on the bright side of climate change action, Astronomer Royal and Royal Society president Martin Rees discusses extraterrestrial life, and Steve Jones shares his Darwin reading list

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Science Weekly: The science of Angels & Demons

Published: 2009-05-18 08:28:45

The team untangles the unholy mess of Catholicism and physics in the new film starring Tom Hanks. Could antimatter really be used to blow up the Vatican?

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Science Weekly: Why do we still disagree about climate change?

Published: 2009-05-08 10:13:34

Mike Hulme, a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, proposes a radical change in the way we talk about global warming

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Science Weekly: Dr Alice Roberts on her Incredible Human Journey

Published: 2009-05-04 03:55:36

We discuss a new TV series that traces how humans left Africa to colonise the world, there's a hype-free look at swine flu, and a visit to the new Butterfly Jungle at the Natural History Museum

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Science Weekly: Life after death

Published: 2009-04-27 08:22:12

David Eagleman discusses his new book in which he ponders the afterlife. We also look at last week's UK budget and ask whether it was green enough, and reveal why the centre of the galaxy tastes of raspberries

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Pages: 12

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