Lots of grim things today on Dear Science - we talk about one of the deadliest scientist, and why you really did not want to be alive in year 536, because it really, really sucked. But we finish on a cute note with some very much needed explanation about wombats’ square poop(s?).
For Dear Science we talk about alkaline water, age ratings in films being determined by chemistry in the air, and wrongful criminal drug conviction cases due to misconduct in the lab.
For Dear Science we talk about retracted research, germ infested hand dryers, and the latest Breakthrough award - which is worth more than the nobel prize.
Allan joins us in studio this week to talk all things Nobel! Prize season is upon us, so we break down this year's achievements in Physics and Medicine. First up are immunologists James Allison and Tasuku Honjo who received the medicine Nobel prize for discovering how to release the brakes cancer puts on the immune system, with dramatically postivie results in patients with melanomas. We then celebrate the third female to ever win the physics Nobel, and the first in 55 years Prof Donna Strickland, alongside Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou, for their groundbreaking work with laserbeams.
AUT's Allan Blackman is back! After a few weeks working and vacationing in Italy and France, he braves the cold and rain to talk about lab fires (and potential uselessness of Health and Safety procedures), hangry-ness (which he's sceptical about due to lack of anecdotal experience), and gene drives (and whether eradicating a mosquito is alright or not).
For Dear Science, Marcus Jones joins us for his last week covering Allan and we talk about plastic in the ocean, predisposed forgiveness, and Ig-Nobel prizes.
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