This week Marcus discusses with James everyting from space exploration to natural disasters.
Marcus starts off by telling us about the latest space missions to be announced, which will be heading to explore Venus. With the conditions far harsher than Mars, different challenges are at the forefront.
Next, Marcus explains a dilemma occuring between experts around COVID-19 variants, children, and whether thry need to be vaccinated straight away. Differing opinions mean some say children are not at risk, while others say they are holding grounds for new variants to grow.
To finish everything up, Marcus talks about a landslide which pccured in India at the start of the year and some of the statistics around the slide.
The week Marcus brings us mind boggling topics, which hurt the heads of both hosts and listeners alike.
Marcus starts off with seabed particles from potential supernova or neutron star colissions, and explain how this can teach us more about the universe.
James tries to learn about quasicrystals, which have patterns which aren't patterns. Marcus explains how nuclear bombs coming into play with this confusing topic.
The show finishes off with a quick chat about how human tissue from 1918 has taught us more about epidemics and pandemics.
This week Dear Science is a little bit shorter, but that doesn't make it any worse!
This week Allan talks to James and Aneeka about anti-matter and anti-matter stars and some of the complication which come with them.
Allan also dishes out the info on a new plastic in the U.S which has enzymes intergrated into plastic so it can decompose withour producing microplastics.
Aaaaaaahhhhh another week of Dear Science! Thisweek James and Aneeka discuss the AstraVeneca COVID-19 vaccine & probability, changing the laws of physics and Yuri Gagarin going into orbit 60 years ago.