On this week's Dear Science, Allan joined Christina live in the studio! This week, they spoke about the Running of the Bulls being used to study crowd behaviour, and how spaceflight impacts mice and humans.
On this week's Dear Science, Christina caught up with AUT Professor Marcus Jones. They spoke about the new variant of Covid-19 spreading around, the surge of new researchers using the Hubble telescope, and the unfortunate side effect of anti-flood barriers in Venice.
This week on Dear Science, Christina was joined by AUT professor Allan Blackman. They chatted about a chemical emitted by babies that can affect our behaviour, a spacecraft that can deflect an asteroid (Armageddon style?), and a brand new particle accelerator that can help us better understand atoms.
This week on Dear Science, Christina Huang was joined by AUT Professor Marcus Jones. This week, they discuss a new Pfizer antiviral to fight Covid-19, the recent Glasgow Climate Pact, and how nonsense words can make us think of specific shapes.
On this week's segment of Dear Science, Zazi was joined by AUT Professor Allan Blackman. They spoke about making aircraft fuel from sunlight and air, fungus that uses chemicals to trick male flies into mating with infected dead females, and cracking the code of unbreakable phone screens.
This week on Dear Science, Zazi was joined by AUT Professor Marcus Jones, chatting all things COVID! Marcus talks about the current search for people who never get COVID, what COVID vaccines for young kids could mean for the pandemic, as well as the common antidepressant that slashes the risk of COVID-19 deaths.
On this week's segment of Dear Science Frances was joined by AUT Professor Allan Blackman. They spoke about the exciting discovery of ammonia synthesis in a ball mill, one thousand year old vikings in North America and what happened in the world of synthetic fibres on October 27th in 1938…
This week on Dear Science, Frances was joined by AUT Professor Marcus Jones where they spoke about the pandemic puzzle of COVID ‘super-immunity’, the first mission to asteroids near Jupiter that might reveal solar system origins, and the question of whether we learn better reading from a screen or from paper.
As promised, here is the link to the asteroid animation for any of you curious listeners out there... science rocks!
This week on Dear Science Frances Wright spoke with AUT Professor Marcus Jones about the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for how skin perceives heat, cold, and pressure, and in physics for work on complex systems. They also talk about the the highly topical COVID vaccine and its Delta variant effectiveness.
This week on Dear Science Frances Wright spoke with AUT Professor Allan Blackman about infectious music, a cautionary tale from the Soviet Era’s deadliest scientist and the incredible story of American astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker.