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How do we smell, again? - part 1

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 1, 2024 7:00 PM

Gravity Maverick - part 2

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 10, 2023 8:56 PM

Waluigi Alignment

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 17, 2023 5:31 PM

Spinal Fusion

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 31, 2022 4:51 PM

Superworm and fake human meat

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 25, 2022 6:11 PM

Nuclear waste storage

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') This program was first broadcast in 2007, but the science is still valid, and the technology hasn't improved. A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special. We look at the breakdown of nuclear waste storage materials...

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 31, 2022 5:16 PM

Life on Mars

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 10, 2020 11:51 AM

Pheromones and robot noses

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 13, 2020 2:45 PM

How do we smell?

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 6, 2020 11:39 AM

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 26, 2019 4:51 PM

Seahorse sex and smart looms

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 30, 2016 11:37 AM

Synthetic Biology De-extinction

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 27, 2015 1:06 PM

Mapping Robots and printed houses

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 28, 2014 10:37 PM

Powdered alcohol and Money part 2

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 21, 2014 1:41 PM

Pet CSI, treasure maps and cartilage

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 31, 2014 7:00 PM

2013 Ig Nobels and Willpower

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 30, 2013 6:43 PM

Voyager 1 and the Multiverses

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 24, 2012 4:50 PM

LOLcat censorship and Future Journeys

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 23, 2009 6:30 PM

Nuclear Waste: Safe for 240,000 years?

play now A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special. We look at the breakdown of nuclear waste storage materials with time, and the problems associated with cleanup of the Maralinga nuclear test site. Dr Ian Farnan, University of Cambridge, talks to...

Posted by Diffusion on November 15, 2007 12:09 AM

NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs.

NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs. NASA crew at the International Space Station are finding problems with their space suits, or so reports New Scientist magazine this...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 28, 2004 3:08 PM