Material World
Weekly science conversation, on everything from archaeology to zoology, from abacus to the antipodean rodent zyzomys, by way of meteorites. Presented by Quentin Cooper, and airing every Thursday, 4:30 pm.
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Fission at Fukushima; Airships – The Future of Air Travel; Legend of the Sunstone
Has nuclear fission restarted at the Fukushima NPP in Japan. ...
Has nuclear fission restarted at the Fukushima NPP in Japan. Is the future of air travel airships? Is there truth in the legend of the Viking SunStone...
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Material World at the National Maritime Museum.
Material World this week comes from the London Science Festival. ...
Material World this week comes from the London Science Festival. Quentin Cooper presents an outside broadcast recorded in front of an audience at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The programme celebrates citizen science and do-it-yourself...
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EU stem cell ruling, The Population Process, Viruses, SYWTBAS?
Following the EU ruling that human stem cells can’t be ...
Following the EU ruling that human stem cells can’t be patented, Quentin discusses the issue with Christophe Then, the Greenpeace campaigner who championed the issue, and Alexander Dennon, a laywer who specialises in stem cell regulations. Also on the...
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Stem cells, Black Death,Lawrence M Krauss and KickSat project
Quentin Cooper on the latest advances in stem cell technolgy, ...
Quentin Cooper on the latest advances in stem cell technolgy, cloning and gene therapy, he unpicks the organism that caused the Black Death and converses with Lawrence Krauss...
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Nobel Prizes 2011
Quentin Cooper runs through the 2011 Nobel Prizes for Medicine ...
Quentin Cooper runs through the 2011 Nobel Prizes for Medicine or Physiology, Physics and Chemistry and discovers why the winners deserved to win....
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'So you want to be a Scientist?', Neutrinos faster than light and Catalytic clothing
Material World announces the return of 'So You Want to ...
Material World announces the return of 'So You Want to Be a Scientist?' - the search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. Also neutrinos faster than light and catalytic clothing....
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Ehsan Masood on biodiversity, slippery surfaces, drugs from ladybirds and fire.
Ehsan Masood reports on attempts to protect biodiversity, to mimic ...
Ehsan Masood reports on attempts to protect biodiversity, to mimic the slippery slope of the pitcher plant, to isolate new drugs from the harlequin ladybird and to be ready for the next big wildfires....
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Quentin reports from the British Science Festival in Bradford on new discoveries in science.
Quentin reports from the British Science Festival in Bradford on ...
Quentin reports from the British Science Festival in Bradford on thorium reactors, plants to clean up explosives, lie detection, ethical tissue and artificial volcanoes to counter global warming....
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Quentin on human ancestry, beautiful genomes and gold from the sky.
Quentin reports on a possible human ancestor, beautiful genomes and ...
Quentin reports on a possible human ancestor, beautiful genomes and what happened to all the gold on – or in - Earth. Quentin Cooper hears about the fossils of a small but surprisingly well-formed possible human ancestor from South Africa; how one...
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Hand axes, New lithium batteries, Cloning wildcats, The moon
Quentin Cooper hears about the first skilled toolmakers, a battery ...
Quentin Cooper hears about the first skilled toolmakers, a battery that won’t set your laptop ablaze, cloning wildcats and, despite Apollo 18, why we should go back to the Moon....
