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Mount Etna
Quentin Cooper joins Open University scientists on Mount Etna.
Titan
Quentin Cooper joins scientists on a beach in search of clues about one of Saturn's moons.
Wetlands and the Carbon Cycle - Hot Rocks
Quentin and scientists measure the exchange of methane between plans and the atmosphere.
Plague in the Great Gerbils of Kazakhstan - Eternity and the Earth After Us
Quentin Cooper discusses the transmission of plague through gerbil populations.
Potato Science - Fermi Problems
Quentin Cooper discovers the value of sensible mathematical and scientific estimations.
Climate and Culture in Disko Bay
Quentin Cooper joins scientists, artists and musicians on a research cruise to Greenland.
Student Space Projects - Did the Earth Freeze Over?
Quentin Cooper learns about student contributions to front-line space projects.
Medical Micro Machines - The Superorganism
Quentin Cooper investigates the nature of superorganisms.
Neutrons Probe Spider Silk Secrets - Concrete Canvas & Emergency Shelters
How neutrons are revealing the secrets of materials, from spider silk to Samurai swords.
Morphic Fields - Social Evolution
Developments in evolutionary psychology and how it can help policy-makers.
Up, Up and Away! - Iron in the Sea
Quentin Cooper hears about ambitious balloon flights carrying a special telescope.
Pheromones at Fifty - Ponds for Life
Quentin Cooper finds out if humans can sense pheromones.
The Evolution of Language - The Great Frost of 1709
Quentin Cooper investigates the cultural and genetic evolution of language.
Emil Abderhalden - The End of Gaia
Quentin Cooper tells the story of biochemist Emil Abderhalden.
Darwin and the Eye - Kepler’s New Astronomy
Quentin Cooper hears about the latest remarkable example of natural selection.
Nature’s Best Kept Secret
Quentin Cooper hears about the DNA reading machine, the ribosome.
Medical Isotopes - The End of Harappa
Quentin Cooper hears about problems in the supply of medical isotopes.
Science Question and Answer Special
Quentin Cooper puts listeners' science questions to a panel of experts.
02/04/2009
Quentin Cooper talks to Explorer Pen Hadow from his arctic ice expedition.
09/04/2009
Forty years after the first British Concorde flight what happened to the supersonic dream?
16/04/2009
Quentin Cooper samples the delights of the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
23/04/2009
How machines are learning to recognise and express emotions.
30/04/2009
Science behind the potential flu epidemic emanating from the Mexican 'swine' flu outbreak.
07/05/2009
Quentin Cooper looks at the 'Two Cultures' divide in goverment.
14/05/2009
Quentin Cooper reports on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
21/05/2009
Quentin Cooper looks at the maths of scrappage and the science of the missing link.
28/05/2009
North Korea's nuclear ambitions, the causes of the 1930s 'Dustbowl', and tool-using rooks.
04/06/2009
Quentin Cooper reports from the Cheltenham Science Festival.
11/06/2009
Low-energy housing, cancer DNA, Swine Flu, plus stories of impending planetary collision.
18/06/2009
Quentin Cooper checks out microbes, maths behind football's calendar and Leominster's air.
25/06/2009
Quentin Cooper champions chimp culture, measures dinosaurs and dissects elections.