This week AUT's Allan Blackman joins us again to discuss this year's Ig Nobel prizes, how scientists are hoping to create a new periodic element and the death of Stanislav Petrov, they man who saved us all from nuclear war.
On Dear Science this week, AUT’s Allan Blackman discusses the Cassini probe nearing its death, a key example of why big pharma gets a bad name and a case of self-prescribing apricot kernels as a cancer treatment leading to cyanide poisoning.
On Dear Science this week, AUT’s Allan Blackman discusses a 600 year old interstellar mystery involving light explosions over Korea which has recently been solved, new nanomachine technology which might hold the key to curing cancer and claims by a conspiracy theorist that the end of the world is nigh as a mysterious planet is about to collide with Earth.
On today's segment of Dear Science, AUT’s Allan Blackman talks to the wednesday wire team about how scientific journals may be over hyping important studies. We take a critical look at the media surrounding a new study linking avocados to breast cancer. Finally Allan tells the team about a computer simulation that reveals why people might prefer the taste of watered down whisky.
Today in Dear Science, Ximena, Will and Reuben get down to the nitty gritty of some intriguing stories with AUT’s Allan Blackman. Allan takes us back in time to 1858 when Queen Victoria sent the first official transatlantic telegram to US President James Buchanan. We get into the nuts and bolts of the debate around alternative medicine, talking about a new study that finds cancer patients who turn to alternative treatments are 2.5 times more likely to die. Finally, Allan tells us about how art historians may be shocked to find out that a pigment used in analysing the legitimacy of historic artwork may have been incorrectly identified up until now.
Today on Dear Science, AUT’s Allan Blackman talks to the Wednesday crew about bees that can count (yip, you read that right), the mysterious world of antimatter, and about the possibility of a future where we can eat ice cream without sticky hands.
Allan Blackman joins us again for Dear Science this week. We talk about a study linking increased failure rates at university with cannabis use; we look at Stuart Nash's (questionable) plan to replace chlorine in water with ozone; finally, we finish with how researchers have been inspired by slug goo in their development of a new surgical wound adhesive.
Allan Blackman joins us for another intriguing, mind blowing and informative segment of Dear Science. Allan discusses a new archeological discovery in northern Australia that suggests aboriginals have been living in australia for at least sixty five thousand years; we discuss the scary reality of radioactive warfare and dirty bombs following the fall of Mosul; finally we touch on ‘synthetic cannabis’ and how it's a dangerous misnomer.
The nerdy science banter continues on Dear Science this week, even though our dear producer Adam has gone for good over to his big-boy job at Fairfax :( Allan nevertheless ploughs on sans-Adam, telling the Wednesday crew about how the first female to receive a prestigious mathematics award has died; how Harvard scientists have managed to store video inside DNA (and about a band who have released an album on strands of genetic material); and about how the New Zealand team got one silver and three bronze medals in the recent Chemistry Olympiad.
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