Long abandoned metal mines are having a huge impact on rivers across the UK. BBC Inside Science reporter Patrick Hughes visits Cwmystwyth in Wales, where he finds lead, zinc and cadmium seeping into waterways. It’s the costly legacy left after hundreds of years of mining.
Roma Agrawal breaks down our modern world into seven essential basic inventions in her book Nuts and Bolts which has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She talks to Marnie about the surprising history behind some of these inventions.
And, as a cryogenic tank of bull semen is stolen from a farm in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, it got us thinking: how can selective breeding help reduce carbon and methane emissions from cattle? Professor Eileen Wall from Scotland’s Rural College tells us more.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Harrison Lewis, Hannah Robins and Patrick Hughes Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
BBC Inside Science is produced in Cardiff by BBC Wales and West in collaboration with the Open University.
Boy gets New Skin, The York Gospels, Stephen Hawking's Thesis
Climate Change and Health; Moth Snow Storm Feedback; Whale Brain Evolution; Pharoah's Serpent
Insects disappearing, DNA Biosensor, Dog faces, Bandit dinosaur
Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs Celsius
HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese Typewriter
Gravity wave breakthrough, The antibiotic pipeline, Microbial waste recycling, Fausto - an AI opera
Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave acoustics
Farewell to Cassini, the epic 20 year mission to Saturn
North Korea Bomb Tests, Warming Antarctic Sea Life, the Microbiome, Cuckoo Chuckle
Noxious haze over south coast; In Pursuit of Memory book; technosphere; Big Wasp Survey
Killer robots; Myths and superstitions and conservation; Science book prize nominee - Cordelia Fine; Taxidermy
Antarctica's volcanoes, science book prize nominee - Mark O'Connell, US solar eclipse and 40 years of NASA's Voyager mission
European heatwave and climate change, Eugenia Cheng, Next generation batteries for electric cars, Joseph Hooker exhibition.
Gene-editing human embryos, Spaceman's eyes, Science book prize, Sexual selection in salmon
Cod fisheries, Our connection to nature, Domestic electricity and Gamma ray bursts
Genetics and privacy, Global plastic, Great Ape Dictionary, Ocean Discovery X Prize
Genetic testing; Pugs on treadmills; Frankenstein
Neonics dispute, Hygenic bees, Hip-hop MRI
Sex bias in biology, Engineering prize, Olympic bats, Angry Chef
Forensics Centre in Dundee; D'Arcy Thompson centenary; Scottish science adviser; Coffee and climate
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