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A fun take on the latest science news with enough data to sink your teeth into. Lagrange Point goes beyond the glossy summary and gets in depth with the research from across the world.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015
16 min
What can we learn by listening to over 40,000 years of scientific records from Australia's many indigenous communities? Find out how their knowledge can help us study meteor craters, tsunami remnants and insight into to how our climate works!
May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015
13 min
Why not just make our roads one giant solar panel? How can we use squid like robots to explore Europa? What are the ethical implications and challenges of driverless cars? Find out all this and more in Lagrange Point!
May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015
17 min
How do we make a robot act ethically when it comes to war and safety? How can we make robots more soft and cuddly? What about transforming robots? All this and more on our Robotics Special!
May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015
14 min
In Part 2 of our Cloning Special we discuss what we can do today with therapeutic cloning and how it can help save lives. We also discuss what can we learn about the ethics of cloning from the mutants in the X-Factor and Orphan Black?