Episodes
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Episode 207 - Cannibal Criters, Killer mice and watchman plants
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
What turns hamsters into crazed cannibals? What part of the brain turns mice into hunter killers? How do plants signal when they're under attack from strange prey?
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
Episode 206 - Earthquake cluster and swarms from Italy to Tonga
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
Tuesday Jan 24, 2017
Clusters of earthquakes from Italy to Tonga. What causes these strange swarms of earthquakes and what have we learnt from the recent disasters in Italy and Tonga?
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Episode 205 - Asgardian connections to cellular life in strange places.
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
What is the Asgardian connection to the very beginning of life itself? How do we classify the different kinds of life at a cellular level? What was the spark that kicked it off? How does life survive in strange places like a glacier?
Tuesday Jan 10, 2017
Episode 204 - Bee-ing one step ahead in the fight against antibiotic resistance
Tuesday Jan 10, 2017
Tuesday Jan 10, 2017
How can we bee one step ahead of bacteria in the fight against antibiotic resistance? How do bacteria hide and survive against all our countermeasures? What codes do they use?
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Episode 203 - Saving time, resetting time and adding time
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Saving time, resetting time and adding time. To celebrate new years we focus on some time related stories of science of the brain and of the very concept of time itself.