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Dear Science

The Tuesday Wire's weekly dive into the wide world of science.

Featuring a rotating cast of smart people including Chemist Professor Allan Blackman and Physicist Dr Cushla McGoverin. 

Thanks to MOTAT, the museum inspiring the innovators of tomorrow.

Dear Science w/ Professor Allan Blackman: 23rd July, 2024

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Tue 23 Jul 2024

For Dear Science this week, our expert Professor Allan Blackman spoke to us about plants not holding as much carbon as we thought, tea tasting worse due to air pressure, and previously extinct giant millipedes.

Dear Science w/ Doctor Cushla McGoverin: 16th July, 2024.

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Tue 16 Jul 2024

For Dear Science this week, we chatted to Doctor Cushla McGoverin about giving an old antibiotic a makeover, frozen woolly mammoth DNA, and a mummified crocodile’s final snack. 

Dear Science w/ Professor Allan Blackman: 9th July, 2024.

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Tue 9 Jul 2024

This week on Dear Science, Wire host Castor chatted to Professor Allan Blackman about fighting cancer with gold nanoparticles, trends in the melodies of popular music, and NASA's fake Mars mission

Dear Science w Dr Cushla McGoverin: 2nd July, 2024.

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Tue 2 Jul 2024

This week on Dear Science, Dr Cushla McGoverin chatted with us about rifleman making new sounds, Antarctic ice melts, and new developments in quantum computing

Dear Science w/ Dr Cushla McGoverin: 18th July, 2024.

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Tue 18 Jun 2024

This week for Dear Science, Dr Cushla McGoverin chatted to us about a treatment option polycystic ovary syndrome, sex differences in pain receptors, and 34,000 year old termite mounds

Dear Science w/ Professor Allan Blackman: 11th June, 2024.

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Tue 11 Jun 2024

For Dear Science this week our expert Professor Allan Blackman spoke to us about a genome in a tiny fern, a paper retracted about Alzheimers, and a study on success and failure

Dear Science w/ Doctor Cushla McGoverin: 4th June, 2024.

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Tue 4 Jun 2024

For Dear Science this week our expert Dr Cushla McGoverin spoke to us about microbes in the baths of Bath, genetically isolated trout due to metal pollution, and new information from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Dear Science w/ Professor Allan Blackman: 28th March, 2024.

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Tue 28 May 2024

For Dear Science this week, Professor Allan Blackman spoke to us about reconstructing the genome of the little bush moa, a protein folding prediction programme, and a new discovery regarding promethium

Dear Science w/ Doctor Cushla McGoverin: 21st May, 2024.

Dear Science w/ Doctor Cushla McGoverin: 21st May, 2024. , 37.79 MB
Tue 21 May 2024

This week on Dear Science, our expert Dr Cushla McGoverin spoke to us about synthetic fungus-based leather, origami-like structures using DNA, and the colouring on rodents' teeth