Lagrange Point

What is the science behind changing people's minds? Can we accurately measure what the most effective strategies are? How do we make sure our results are accurate and really scientific? This week on Lagrange Point, the science of changing minds.

How do you balance the needs of indigenous people and major scientific projects? The Thirty Meter Telescope would be one the two most powerful Extremely Large Telescopes in the world, but many Native Hawaiians object to it's location on the mountain Maunu Kea.

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!

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!

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!

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?

How has the history of cloning developed? What are the scientific and ethical limitations? We explore the science of cloning through the lens of popular culture and Orphan Black in Part 1 of our Cloning Special!

How do we prevent catastrophic failures like the Tacoma Narrows bridge or the Millennium Bridge? Just what is fatigue? Why do our computer models need to be more random? All this and more on Lagrange Point!

Jupiter came into the young solar system like a wrecking ball, but Saturn was there keep us safe. Can you be safe from earthquakes even in orbit? Questions of planetary proportions in this week's Lagrange Point!

Why is myopia on the rise? Are smartphones and studying to blame? Not really, but there are some interesting ways we can help prevent it, and it all comes down to light!

Measuring how Leaders influence their follower's brains using lasers! We find out what happens and how follower's brains synch up to their leaders. We also learn about teaching our brain nonsense words!

What's the science behind fighting games? How can we harness the powerful potential of aurora's and solar power with high powered microwaves? What can we learn from SimCity for our future power plants?

We talk about the scientific battle of the ages in Mammal March Madness, and we discuss what biology lessons we can learn from Spore! We also find out some odd things about snails and their harpoon tongues.

That's no moon, that's Ceres. We also find out about NASA's plans for floating missions on Venus, ancient oceans on Mars, and giant diamonds at the heart of Jupiter!

What can we learn by scientifically studying tumblr and twitter memes? What is the scientific reasons behind why things go 'viral' on social media? What Artificial Intelligence is Tumblr deploying to help police their site? Social media in the spotlight on Lagrange Point.

A rogue star gave our solar system a drive by 70,000 years ago which puts pave to the Nemesis theory. We also find out about super sized saturn type rings.

How do you become the number 1 bat in the batcave? With tricky jams of course! We also find the scientific proof for the eloquent poetry of Carl Sagan.

We celebrate the second birthday of Lagrange Point! We look back at some of our stories we've covered in the past, and how the research has grown, adapted and changed over time. This includes gold that live on bacteria, and worms that break down pollution.

Why are prions the hipster protein virus? Can we really put an egg back together again, and why would you want to? Plus we meet our latest batch of presenters.

How did a sea monster manage to survive since dinosaur times? Did asteroid impacts really just wipe out the dinosaurs instantly? What odd lengths do strange medical researchers go to in the search for new discoveries? All this and more in Lagrange Point 102!