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02/08/2012

A look at phonics and neuroscience, maths and the epic classics, and animal empathy.

• 30 mins

06/08/2012

Quentin Cooper reports on the latest surface rover mission to Mars, NASA's Curiosity.

• 30 mins

16/08/2012

How a child with total paralysis could kick a football using a brain-controlled suit.

• 30 mins

23/08/2012

Quentin Cooper investigates Mars, bomb-proof make-up, toilets of the future, and bird song

• 30 mins

30/08/2012

Piano tuners' brains, exo-planets and chimp justice. Quentin Cooper presents science news.

• 30 mins

06/09/2012

Quentin Cooper features some of the highlights of the British Science Festival in Aberdeen

• 30 mins

13/09/2012

Quentin Cooper explores how online social pressure can increase voter turnout.

• 30 mins

20/09/2012

Climate computer modelling and its use in determining future UK energy policy.

• 30 mins

27/09/2012

Quentin Cooper visits the Gravity Fields festival in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

• 30 mins

04/10/2012

Retractions - what happens when published research is wrong? With Quentin Cooper.

• 30 mins

11/10/2012

The Nobel Prizes for 2012; the science and the glory.

• 30 mins

18/10/2012

What is the scientific evidence behind the badger cull?

• 30 mins

25/10/2012

Six-year sentences handed to Italian earthquake specialists for bad L'Aquila advice.

• 30 mins

01/11/2012

Gareth Mitchell investigates energy storage solutions and the threats to our woodlands.

• 30 mins

08/11/2012

Coffee extinction, evidence of the earliest human society, and migratory birds dying.

• 30 mins

15/11/2012

Quentin Cooper looks at the idea of converting power stations to burn wood from trees.

• 30 mins

22/11/2012

Quentin Cooper investigates the science in the news and the news in science.

• 30 mins

29/11/2012

UK Energy Bill, rat cull in South Georgia, the powers of olive oil, and Romantic Chemistry

• 30 mins

06/12/2012

How science can save boring climate talks and an interview with DNA pioneer James Watson.

• 30 mins

13/12/2012

Science cash prizes, science in The Hobbit, and solving an archaeological hoax.

• 30 mins

20/12/2012

Unintelligent IQ tests, frozen Lakes, human life on Mars, and Santa stuck in a chimney.

• 30 mins

Unsung heroes of Science

Quentin Cooper and guests discuss unsung heroes of science.

• 30 mins

Norovirus; Superheroes; Army underpants

Winter vomiting, superhero physics and why military scientists design underpants.

• 30 mins

Kepler; Arctic Drilling; Sexy Brain Regions

Exoplanets, near-Earth asteroids, Arctic drilling and the most popular brain research.

• 30 mins

Smog; Exploding stars; Animal-free research

Quentin Cooper looks at the smog in China, alternatives to research on animals, and novae.

• 30 mins

Noise and plane design; Birdflu; Dogs; Mackerel

How to design a new plane, bird flu, dog domestication and mackerel.

• 30 mins

High speed rail; Radioactive waste; Universe within us; Quantum Biology.

High-speed rail; Radioactive waste; Universe within us; Quantum Biology.

• 30 mins

TB vaccine, satellites, Lake Ellsworth, Antarctic station

Quentin Cooper looks at failures in science and lessons learnt in new TB vaccine trials.

• 30 mins

Coronavirusl: Horsemeat: Blackbirds; DNA

The new corona virus - has it really mutated to be able to jump between humans?

• 28 mins

Viruses; DNA: Identical Twins: Dark Energy,

Why does a virus manage to infect us and make us ill so quickly?

• 30 mins