December 2012 - Science in Industry and Romance in Chemistry

December 2012 - Science in Industry and Romance in Chemistry
In this month’s episode: hear from the winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, find out about our forthcoming Year of Science and Industry and explore the new Royal Society exhibition: Romantic Chemistry.

(00:16) James Gleick, winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
(02:21) Simon Campbell, Year of Science and Industry coordinator.
(04:48) Professor Tim Leighton, winner of The Brian Mercer Award for Innovation in 2011.
(06:19) Professor Vincent Walsh, Royal Society Industry Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.
(09:25) Romantic Chemistry with Martyn Poliakoff, chemist and foreign secretary of the Royal Society.

November 2012 - The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize

November 2012 - The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize
This month’s episode celebrates the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. We hear from the children and adults who took part in the judging process, the shortlisted authors and the winner, Robert Winston.

(00:39) Mark Champkins, Inventor in Residence at the Science Museum and one of the judges, with Alex Frith, author of shortlisted ‘See inside Inventions’
(02:13) Young judges at Northlands School
(05:23) Robert Winston, winning author of ‘Science Experiments’
(06:08) Clive Gifford, author of shortlisted ‘Out of this world: all the cool bits about space’
(07:20) Richard Platt, author of shortlisted ‘Plagues, pox and pestilence’
(09:03) Christiane Dorion, author of shortlisted ‘How the weather works’
(10:23) Richard Dawkins, author of shortlisted ‘The magic of reality’

October 2012 - Scientific Heroines and Heroes

This month: discover how the Royal Society are trying to tackle the lack of information about scientific Heroines on Wikipedia and hear what this year’s Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medwar Lecturer had to say about scientific Heroes. We also learn about handling uncertainty in weather and climate prediction.

(00:26) Dr Roger Highfield: Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group and this year’s Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medwar Lecturer.
(10:11) Professor Uta Frith FRS: scientific heroine and new Wikipedia editor.
(13:13) Professor Tim Palmer FRS: Chair of the Royal Society Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting on handling uncertainty in weather and climate prediction and Liz Stephens who spoke at the meeting.

September 2012 - Science Policy and Poetry

In this month’s podcast we hear from the chairs of two of the Royal Society’s recent science policy reports; on Shale Gas Extraction and Science as an Open Enterprise. We also discover the fine scientific illustrations of the poet Edward Lear, featured in our current exhibition.
Robert Mair: Chair of the Shale Gas Extraction Report (00:40)
Geoffrey Boulton: Chair of the Science as an Open Enterprise Report (04:27)
Jonathan Ashmore: Chair of the Library Committee (08:57)

August 2012 - The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

If you missed any or all of our Summer Science Exhibition, this month’s podcast revisits a few of the highlights. Find out how insects smell, discover the drowned landscape of Doggerland, and ask some lichen, how clean is my air?

July 2012 - A Summer of Science

The best of the science festival season. Here at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, explore both the evidence and entertainment value of forensic science; and meet mathematical adventurer Alex Bellos and climate evolution expert Mark Maslin at the Cheltenham Science Festival.

June 2012 - Science Writing

Find out what it takes to write science books from one of the judges of the Royal Society's annual prize, Jasper Fforde and author of Chasing Venus, Andrea Wulf. Also, Tim Bliss uncovers the mysteries of memory.

May 2012 - Science in schools

Join us at the SCORE conference as Dr Becky Parker explains the importance of scientific research within schools, and hear from the pupils of Britannia Village Primary School as they tell us about their own Partnership Grants research project on chickens. One of our Industry Fellows also describes the impact of his fellowship.

April 2012 - People and Planet

Join Nobel Prize winner Sir John Sulston FRS as he explains the findings of the Royal Society's latest major policy study, People and Planet, and find out all about the book that Samuel Pepys called "the most ingenious book that I ever read".

March 2012 - A galaxy of science stars

An intergalactic line up of guests this month, starting with Dr Zita Martins - who uses meteorites to look back in time - followed by Dr Chris Lintott of BBC One’s Sky at Night programme (recent winner of the Royal Society Kohn Award) and finishing off with Royal Society Foreign Secretary and YouTube superstar Professor Martyn Poliakoff.

February 2012: Computing past and present

This month, we’re looking at computing past and present, as we speak to two eminent figures from the world of computing, as well as hearing about the treasures of the Royal Society library.

January 2012: Partnership grants and more

This episode is all about education as we hear from some of the students and teachers who have been taking part in the Royal Society's Partnership Grants scheme.  Also, Professor Athene Donald, Fellow of the Royal Society and Chair of the Royal Society’s Education Committee fills us in on why she’s not your average physicist.