June 2013 – Improving Solar Power and the Treatment of Diabetes
In R.Science this month we find out how plastic solar cells may give people in
the developing world easier access to electricity. We explore the role of
pancreatic beta cells in diabetes and how this may help to better treat the
disease. We also discuss the relationship between science and science fiction
and try to discover the use of quantum mechanics.
00:27 Professor
Neil Grenham, Kavli Medal winner, on new plastic solar
cells
04:02 Professor Ian Stewart FRS on the Arthur C. Clarke Awards for science
fiction
07:15 Professor Jonathan Oppenheim on quantum information theory
10:05 Professor Frances Ashcroft FRS, Croonian Prize lecturer, on
the role of pancreatic beta cells in
diabetes
16:30 Professor Ashcroft - why
science?
R.Science is the Royal Society's main podcast. Each month we bring you the latest news on the wide range of activities happening at the Society.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
May 2013 – Brian Cox: Britain, a Great place to do science?
May 2013 – Brian Cox: Britain, a Great place to do science?
In this episode of R.Science, we hear highlights of Professor Brian Cox’s lecture that packed the Royal Society to the rafters earlier this year. We also find out how you could monitor Parkinson’s disease over the phone and celebrate 50 years of science funding with the Wolfson Foundation. Rosalind Franklin’s sister will discuss some personal memories of the celebrated scientist and we delve into the science and politics of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
00:34 Extracts from the Faraday Prize Lecture, by Professor Brian Cox
07:17 Dr Max Little and Dr Mark Ungless ask “Should we monitor Parkinson’s over the phone?”
11:13 The Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation celebrate 50 years of funding science
13:37 Dr Greg Lynall explores the satire of science in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
17:22 Dr Jenifer Glyn discusses her book, “My sister Rosalind Frankin”
19:13 Dr Max Little answers, Why Science?
In this episode of R.Science, we hear highlights of Professor Brian Cox’s lecture that packed the Royal Society to the rafters earlier this year. We also find out how you could monitor Parkinson’s disease over the phone and celebrate 50 years of science funding with the Wolfson Foundation. Rosalind Franklin’s sister will discuss some personal memories of the celebrated scientist and we delve into the science and politics of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
00:34 Extracts from the Faraday Prize Lecture, by Professor Brian Cox
07:17 Dr Max Little and Dr Mark Ungless ask “Should we monitor Parkinson’s over the phone?”
11:13 The Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation celebrate 50 years of funding science
13:37 Dr Greg Lynall explores the satire of science in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
17:22 Dr Jenifer Glyn discusses her book, “My sister Rosalind Frankin”
19:13 Dr Max Little answers, Why Science?
Thursday, April 25, 2013
April 2013 - Party for a Past Fellow and the Future of Medicine
April
2013 - Party for a Past Fellow and the Future of Medicine
In this episode, we ask if growing old is an illness, hear about the potential of stem cells to treat visual impairment and discuss the prospect of personal avatars in computational biomedicine. We also explore the perils of predicting the weather and celebrate the work of Darwin's friend, Sir John Lubbock.
00:40 Dr John Clark on Sir John Lubbock,
07:40 Dr Rachel Pearson from the Edinburgh Science Festival on her work using stem cells to treat visual impairment,
13:07 Prof Peter Coveney FRS and Prof Peter Hunter FRS on computational biomedicine for Interface Focus,
19:05 Dr Matthew Piper URF on his Cafe Scientifique: Is growing old an illness?
25:05 David Shukman, Science Editor for BBC News, Tim Palmer FRS, Professor of Climate Physics, and Liz Howell, Head of BBC Weather on predicting and reporting adverse weather,
32:57 Dr Rachel Pearson answers, Why Science?
In this episode, we ask if growing old is an illness, hear about the potential of stem cells to treat visual impairment and discuss the prospect of personal avatars in computational biomedicine. We also explore the perils of predicting the weather and celebrate the work of Darwin's friend, Sir John Lubbock.
00:40 Dr John Clark on Sir John Lubbock,
07:40 Dr Rachel Pearson from the Edinburgh Science Festival on her work using stem cells to treat visual impairment,
13:07 Prof Peter Coveney FRS and Prof Peter Hunter FRS on computational biomedicine for Interface Focus,
19:05 Dr Matthew Piper URF on his Cafe Scientifique: Is growing old an illness?
25:05 David Shukman, Science Editor for BBC News, Tim Palmer FRS, Professor of Climate Physics, and Liz Howell, Head of BBC Weather on predicting and reporting adverse weather,
32:57 Dr Rachel Pearson answers, Why Science?
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
March 2013 - Spring Smörgåsbord
March
2013 - Spring Smörgåsbord
In this episode, we will find out why our fingers wrinkle in the bath, the science of British Sign Language, and what a former President of the Royal society thinks about the role scientists can play in science education.
00:28 Sir Martin Rees, former PRS, on SCORE and science education,
05:55 Professor Gordon Plotkin, winner of the 2012 Royal Society Milner Award, on the symantics of programming language,
08:58 Professor Bencie Woll, on British Sign Language,
16:47 Dr Tom Smulders, Biology Letters paper author, on wrinkly fingers,
21:02 Sir Martin Rees, answers why science?
In this episode, we will find out why our fingers wrinkle in the bath, the science of British Sign Language, and what a former President of the Royal society thinks about the role scientists can play in science education.
00:28 Sir Martin Rees, former PRS, on SCORE and science education,
05:55 Professor Gordon Plotkin, winner of the 2012 Royal Society Milner Award, on the symantics of programming language,
08:58 Professor Bencie Woll, on British Sign Language,
16:47 Dr Tom Smulders, Biology Letters paper author, on wrinkly fingers,
21:02 Sir Martin Rees, answers why science?
Thursday, February 28, 2013
February 2013 - The Secret Life of Life
February
2013 - The Secret Life of Life
In this episode, we will span both the big and small, finding out more about our solar system and our genes. We hear about a mission to find life on one of Saturn’s moons and a quest to find the secrets of life and disease inside the human genome.
In this episode, we will span both the big and small, finding out more about our solar system and our genes. We hear about a mission to find life on one of Saturn’s moons and a quest to find the secrets of life and disease inside the human genome.
00:20 Professor Michele Dougherty,
Discovery of a dynamic
atmosphere at one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus. (Public Lecture)
04:16 Dr Ewan Birney, What can we learn from our genes? (Café Scientifique)
08:24 Professor Adrian Bird, Genetic, Epigenetics and disease. (The Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize lecture)
11:30 Prof. Dougherty: Why science?
04:16 Dr Ewan Birney, What can we learn from our genes? (Café Scientifique)
08:24 Professor Adrian Bird, Genetic, Epigenetics and disease. (The Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize lecture)
11:30 Prof. Dougherty: Why science?
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
January 2013 - Happy new year from the Royal Society
January
2013 - Happy new year from the Royal Society
In the first episode of 2013 we present a scientific smörgåsbord of recent Royal Society happenings. We look inside volcanoes at a Café Scientifique and into ponds with a school benefitting from one of our Partnership Grants. We also hear from some of our University Research Fellows and an author from one of our recent journals.
(00:35) Thames Ditton Junior School.
(02:28) What's going on inside volcanoes? Dr Alison Rust.
(06:24) University Research Fellows: Chris Aldridge (UCL) and Eddie Cussen (University of Stratchlyde).
(12:20) Why Science? Professor Michael Elphick (Queen Mary, University of London)
In the first episode of 2013 we present a scientific smörgåsbord of recent Royal Society happenings. We look inside volcanoes at a Café Scientifique and into ponds with a school benefitting from one of our Partnership Grants. We also hear from some of our University Research Fellows and an author from one of our recent journals.
(00:35) Thames Ditton Junior School.
(02:28) What's going on inside volcanoes? Dr Alison Rust.
(06:24) University Research Fellows: Chris Aldridge (UCL) and Eddie Cussen (University of Stratchlyde).
(12:20) Why Science? Professor Michael Elphick (Queen Mary, University of London)
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