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Back to the Future: Dan Dare - Synthetic Biology
Quentin Cooper discusses the postwar boom in science and technology with Ben Russell.
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Designer Soils - Stealth Warships
Quentin Cooper explores new research into keeping warships and aircraft undetected.
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Blood Brain Barrier - The Domesday Book and Dead Sea Scrolls
Quentin Cooper explores the Blood Brain Barrier.
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Humans and Crops - Rosalind Franklin
Quentin Cooper reveals how domesticated crops spread through Europe.
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Redefining the Kilogram - Mapping Membrane Proteins
Quentin Cooper investigates plans to redefine the standard measure of a kilogram.
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HECToR The Supercomputer - Skin Cancer
Quentin Cooper investigates HECToR, Britain's new national supercomputer.
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75th Anniversary of Polythene - Sound Perception
Quentin Cooper investigates research into how the brain processes complex sounds.
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Smart Holograms - Batteries of the Future
Sue Nelson investigates research into a new generation of lighter and cleaner batteries.
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Animal Robots - Plate Tectonics
Sue Nelson explores the world of animal robots.
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Fungi Exploitation - Electron Microscopes
Quentin Cooper explores incredible advances in microscope technology.
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Solar Panel Technology - Gravitational Lenses
Quentin Cooper investigates solar power and how it can most effectively be utilised.
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Cosmic String - Antarctic Volcanoes
Quentin Cooper learns about an Antarctic volcano which erupted more than 2,000 years ago.
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Fossil Colourisation - Symmetry
Quentin Cooper explores how fossils reveal information about dinosaurs' skin colourings.
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Systems Biology - Anthropocene Era
Quentin Cooper investigates the science of systems biology.
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Talking Bacteria - Self Healing Materials
Quentin Cooper investigates the complex chemical language used by bacteria.
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XEUS: A New Space X-Ray Telescope - Plant Disease Immunisation
Quentin Cooper, Gary Lyon and John Lucas discuss how to protect plants from viruses.
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Vindolanda Texts - Deep Tropical Ocean Kelvin Waves
Quentin Cooper reports on a new technique which is shedding light on life in Roman times.
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Global Science
Quentin Cooper is joined by a panel to discuss the role of science in our world.
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Question & Answer Christmas Special
Quentin Cooper invites a panel of experts to answer science questions from listeners.
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Algae - Voice Forensics
Quentin Cooper and phoneticians Francis Nolan and Peter French discuss voice recognition.
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Cutty Sark - Lord Kelvin
Quentin Cooper reports on the restoration of the Cutty Sark.
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest - Light Emitting Diodes
Quentin Cooper looks at a brighter future for Light Emitting Diode technology.
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Hydrophobicity 鈥� Intelligent agents
Quentin Cooper and Nick Jennings discuss computer programs which make their own decisions.
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Superbugs - BepiColumbo Mission: Returning to Mercury
Quentin Cooper talks to Clive Beggs and Kevin Kerr from the University of Bradford.
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Fish Stock Extinction - The Geological Society鈥檚 Anniversary
Quentin Cooper ask are the vast majority of fish species doomed?
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The Bombardier Beetle - Ionic Liquids
Quentin Cooper talks to Prof Andy McIntosh about his research into the Bombardier beetle.
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Warm Flowers Make For Happy Bees - Interdependence
Quentin Cooper explores the relationships between flowers and insects.
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Family Resemblance - The Science of Addiction
Quentin Cooper finds out about the science of addiction.
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Arctic Sea Ice - Left Handedness
Quentin Cooper talks finds out why there are so many more left handed people.
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Nobel Prize for Medicine - Peppered Moth
The Peppered Moth and its significance in the debate about Darwin's evolutionary theory.
