Episodes
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
Episode 211 - A treasure trove of new planets around Trappist
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
We've discovered a treasure trove of planets around Trappist. What does that mean in the search of intelligent life across the universe? How do we find exoplanets? What other earth like planets are out there?
Tuesday Feb 21, 2017
Episode 210 - Studying language in the brain from poetry to McGurk
Tuesday Feb 21, 2017
Tuesday Feb 21, 2017
Studying language in the brain from the way we process words, recognise poetry and mishear with the McGurk effect. Are we hard wired to appreciate poetry? What happens when we see one sound but hear another? All this and more on Lagrange Point.
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Farming becomes high-tech with electricity generating trees, farming crops of big data and robots bee-coming a polinator by swapping drone bees for drone UAVs.
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Episode 208 - Asteroids and Meteorites from billions of years ago to today
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
What happened 470 million of years ago that has been showering us with meteorites ever since then? What connection is there between an explosion in meteorites with an explosion in life in ancient oceans? What do we know about meteorites today?