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.
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New Horizons Pluto update; friendly predatory bacteria; Christmas in the lab; human ancestry
Tim Peake's mission to the ISS, Spaceman Chris Hadfield, AGU round-up, Air pollution, Human Evolution at the NHM
Flooding, Scientific modelling, Magnetoreception, Escalators
Science funding, Carbon capture storage, Graphene
Ancient farmers' genomes, Alice at Cern, Astrophysics questions
Antarctic ice sheet instability, Groundwater, Accents, Fluorescent coral
Sex-change tree, Pluto's cryovolcanoes, Sellafield's plutonium, Ant super-organisms
Grid cells and time, Boole, How your brain shapes your life
Oxygen on comet 67P; Bees and antimicrobial drugs; Reproducibility of science experiments; Reintroduction of beavers
Animal experiments, Bees and diesel, Sense Ocean, Readability of IPCC report
Time Travel in Science and Cinema
Ethiopian genome, Coral nutrients, The hunt for gravitational waves, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Write on Kew festival at Kew Gardens, Preserving global biodiversity
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Pluto images, Space elevator, Insect migration, Imagination app
Homo Naledi, New spacesuit, Quantum biology, A possible cure for motion sickness
El Nino, Sphagnum moss and peatlands, Inside Cern, Measuring air pollution with iPhones
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