27 Episodes

  1. How did the diversity of life come about?

    Published: 6/12/2025
  2. Science Explainer: Recent Mount Etna Eruption

    Published: 6/8/2025
  3. Question and Answer Time!

    Published: 6/5/2025
  4. The Science Of Football

    Published: 5/29/2025
  5. Science Explainer: Why is it so hard to kill bacteria?

    Published: 5/26/2025
  6. Why Wolves Don’t Change Rivers

    Published: 5/22/2025
  7. Science Explainer: New Funding for US based scientists looking to move to the UK.

    Published: 5/19/2025
  8. Break Barriers: Women, the Physical Sciences Need You Now!

    Published: 5/19/2025
  9. Why Ginger Cats Are Mostly Boys (and Why Some Wolves Are Black!)

    Published: 5/16/2025
  10. How To Build A Sustainable World

    Published: 5/15/2025
  11. AI Undermines Health Science

    Published: 5/14/2025
  12. Why Is There A Universe? Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

    Published: 5/13/2025
  13. The Quantum Revolution: Lee Smolin’s Bold Theory to Unite Physics

    Published: 5/8/2025
  14. Special Edition- Can academia provide solutions to threats to biodiversity?

    Published: 5/2/2025
  15. Should we fear AI?

    Published: 4/25/2025
  16. Natural and artificial genetic hybrids: dogs, coyotes and dire wolves. PART 2

    Published: 4/18/2025
  17. Natural and artificial genetic hybrids: dogs, coyotes and dire wolves.

    Published: 4/17/2025
  18. Will Zombie ants be the last of us?

    Published: 4/16/2025
  19. SPECIAL EDITION - Interview with David Baker 2024 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry

    Published: 4/13/2025
  20. De-mything the hype around de-extinction

    Published: 4/10/2025

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Do you want to learn a little more about topical science findings? Do many of the science stories you hear leave you with unanswered questions? Syma and Tim will discuss in non-technical language and in a fun and engaging style, recently published science findings. Guests will be authors of these papers and will include some of the world’s most exciting scientists who are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge. Covering, among other things, artificial intelligence, the search for alien life, the latest treatments for diseases, quantum computers, the science of football and topics requested by listeners, the half hour episodes will leave listeners feeling a little more knowledgeable about cutting-edge science and how scientists make discoveries.