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.
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
Bardarbunga volcano; Geology in Minecraft; Synthesising opioids; Ammonia
Manipulating mouse memory; London pollution; Nature of knowing; Snail fur
TB in the New World; Trusting Wikipedia; Shipwreck of the London; @LegoAcademics
Anaesthesia; Chilean earthquakes; Strange weather; Jellyfish
New dinosaur; GM chickens; Lightning; Rosetta; Diatoms
ExpeRimental; Rosetta; MOOCs
Science's fascination with the face
A special programme on plants and their pollinators, poisons and pests
Behavioural profiling at airports; Light and colour in art; Hadrian's Wall; Cassini
Informed consent, El Nino, Gravitational Waves, Cloud cover
Longitude Prize Winner; Solar cells; New species; Fiji fisherwomen; Physics questions
Antarctic Invaders; Patents; Longitude Challenges for Water and Antibiotics
Turing test; World Cup exo-skeleton; Plant cyborgs; Music hooks
Moving Mountains; Invasive Species; Football Stickers
Women scientists; Mapping the ocean floor; Amplituhedron
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