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.
Longitude Prize 2014; Dementia; Matter from light; Coastal deposition
Antarctic melt; brain enhancing devices, atomic clocks and anti-bat moth sounds
Colin Pillinger; Fire? Artificial DNA
Mice & Men; Fuel from CO2; fRMI; Insect calls
Y chromosome; Everest avalanche; Aphid survey; Longitude
Sperm and egg; Dogs; Automatic Facebook; Invasive species
Whales; Dark Matter; Falling; Arty brains
Calorie Restriction; Moon Age; Mars Yard; IPCC.
Fracking; Purple GM tomatoes; Bionic humans; Shark attacks
Cosmic inflation; LISA; Photonic radar; Bird stress camera; Water research; Taxidermy
Tracking planes; Peer review; Mega-virus; Astronaut
LG - Chemical weapons, Turtles, Tech for wildlife, Climate
Brain Machine Interfaces; Question on Gay Genes; Studying Drinking Behaviour
Bees; Whales; Pain; Gay genes
Whales from space; Flood emails; SUYI JET Lasers; CERN's new tunnel; Discoveries exhibition
Engineering for floods; Neanderthal genes; Switching senses; Genes in Space game
Neanderthals; Plague; Wind Tunnel; Music Timing; Stem Cells
Higgs Boson; Neutrinos; Antarctic echo locator; Rainforest fungi; Alabama rot
Personal genetics kits; Persister cells; Earthquake mapping; Scorpions
Antarctica weather and climate change; GM Fish Oils; Melanin Fossils; Time Travel
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