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.
Climate change belief; Anthropocene era; Eyes on the sea; Origins of multicellular life
GMOs; International Year of Light; Coral health
International Year of Soils
Venus mission, Science highlights for 2015, Sonotweezers, Tsunami 10 years on
Listeners' Science Questions
Microplastics; Holey Ice; Vesalius; Overeating
Water on Comets; DNA in Space; Sounds of the Ocean; Science in Fashion
Orion Launch; Fake Mars trip; XDNA; Richard the Third's skeleton
Campylobacter in Chicken; Artificial Intelligence Guru Demis Hassabis; Sexology; Lucy
Comet landing detects organics molecules; Lunar Mission One; Biological warfare
Rosetta; Thought-controlled genes; Biophonic Life; Arecibo message 40 years on
Science of ageing; Microneedles; Firelab; Rosetta; Scientific authorship
The Making of the Moon
Hobbit; Genetics of height; Solar science; Snails
Ebola; Ada Lovelace Day; Space Weather
Nobel Prizes 2014; Gauge; Genetics and Diabetes; UK Fungus Day
Women, Science and the Royal Society; Open Access Research
Cosmic inflation latest; Indian space success; Science and language; Wax Venus
European ancestry; Cern is 60; Graphene plasters; Penguins
Jack the Ripper; Future of Scottish science
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