On this week’s show: Can we share science; Allegations against Neil Degrasse Tyson; and Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
circadian rhythms
How colour affects the body clock
Faiza Peeran finds that animals can use the colour of the sky to tell the time
Ronald Konopka: pioneer of genetic chronobiology
Explore Dr Ronald Konopka’s fantastic discoveries which opened the door to research on our biological clocks
Glow-in-the-dark mushrooms’ route to success
New evidence from the forests of Brazil sheds light on glowing mushrooms…
The World’s Got Rhythm, Circadian Rhythm
Circadian rhythms run the biological world like clockwork. Madeleine Hurry explains how they work, from the genes in a bacterium to the human brain
GM crops the sequel and more
Themes of the last fortnight have been GM crops, the circadian eye and stem cell bath doubts …
Monitoring your sleep patterns
It’s 3am. The cold light of my computer screen illuminates my face, highlighting the bags that are forming under my eyes and casting disturbing shadows around my bedroom. You might think that I was engaged in something incredibly important to keep me up so late. But no, the truth is, I am unable to sleep […]