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The famed Aye-Aye was considered a foreshadowing of death in Madagascar. Photo credit: Ralph Haupt Halloween is just around the...
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In your I, Science News Roundup this week I cover the launch of the International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection...
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95% of Earth’s oceans are unexplored. Despite making the leap to space exploration more than 50 years ago the depths...
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Welcome to your weekly I, Science News Roundup! This week we cover the Extinction Rebellion protests, the impact that Brexit...
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Why Dame Sally Davies’ suggestions won’t satiate our public health crisis Amongst the political drama of Brexit, a barely functioning...
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I,Science were invited to the V&A this week to get a taste of the exhibition: FOOD: Bigger than the Plate....
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People have always been learning and benefiting from nature and the world around us. Joined in the studio by botanist...
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Welcome to the first I, Science News Roundup of the 2019-20 academic year! It’s been a big week for science...
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Welcome new I, Science Radio crew! Our new producer is Ryna Lau and our new presenter is Jacqui Wakefield. They...
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On Monday 16th September at 1 pm it was dissertation hand-in day for Sci Comm students. Here is what we...
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Starting with a look into the future of being able to mend broken hearts. Tanya Hughes has been talking to...
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This week all our items relate in some way to our health. 8th July marked the beginning of Dog awareness week...
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First up, this weekend, heatwave struck mainland Europe causing temperatures to soar. The hot air has been drawn up from...
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Since the second generation of solar panels were designed seven years ago, the energy efficiency has risen from 16.7% to...
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Step aside Brexit, let me introduce you to your new worst nightmare: Fusarium xylarioides. No, I didn’t just sneeze. Fusarium...
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First up, researchers from the University of York have analysed samples from rivers on every continent except Antarctica and have...
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As fresh-faced students on the Science Communication MSc here at Imperial College, last October we were instructed to go forth...
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First up, Biomedical-research funder the Wellcome Trust has announced an ambitious initiative to improve the treatment of snakebites in poor...
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First up, a team at the Oxford Internet Institute have found that social media usage accounts for only 1% of...
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First up, Yale University scientists have managed to partially revive pig brains several hours after death, by pumping a synthetic...
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Listeners may remember that last term a group of us who took Gareth Mitchell’s radio theory course fell in love...
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First up, A Global Burden of Disease study published this week found that in 2017, around 11 million deaths and...
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First up, the mystery source of a proton’s spin has been found. Researchers have confirmed that some of the subatomic...
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Broadcast live on April Fool’s day but no joking matter, sustainable fashion. What a show! It was lively and informative....
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We were a bit demob happy as this was the first show of the Easter holidays, so listen in for...
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First, thousands of soft tissue fossils have been discovered along a riverbank in China. Dating back to the Cambrian period,...
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Following on from the great feedback we received for using reader artwork in previous issues, our Pictures Editor, Céleste Nilges, reached...
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First up, the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is approaching 1000 cases, generating fear that the...
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H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient- reads a headline in the New York Times. The article reports on...
