Wetlands and the Carbon Cycle - Hot Rocks

Quentin and scientists measure the exchange of methane between plans and the atmosphere.

• 30 mins

Plague in the Great Gerbils of Kazakhstan - Eternity and the Earth After Us

Quentin Cooper discusses the transmission of plague through gerbil populations.

• 30 mins

Potato Science - Fermi Problems

Quentin Cooper discovers the value of sensible mathematical and scientific estimations.

• 30 mins

Climate and Culture in Disko Bay

Quentin Cooper joins scientists, artists and musicians on a research cruise to Greenland.

• 30 mins

Student Space Projects - Did the Earth Freeze Over?

Quentin Cooper learns about student contributions to front-line space projects.

• 30 mins

Medical Micro Machines - The Superorganism

Quentin Cooper investigates the nature of superorganisms.

• 30 mins

Neutrons Probe Spider Silk Secrets - Concrete Canvas & Emergency Shelters

How neutrons are revealing the secrets of materials, from spider silk to Samurai swords.

• 30 mins

Morphic Fields - Social Evolution

Developments in evolutionary psychology and how it can help policy-makers.

• 30 mins

Up, Up and Away! - Iron in the Sea

Quentin Cooper hears about ambitious balloon flights carrying a special telescope.

• 30 mins

Pheromones at Fifty - Ponds for Life

Quentin Cooper finds out if humans can sense pheromones.

• 30 mins

The Evolution of Language - The Great Frost of 1709

Quentin Cooper investigates the cultural and genetic evolution of language.

• 30 mins

Emil Abderhalden - The End of Gaia

Quentin Cooper tells the story of biochemist Emil Abderhalden.

• 30 mins

Darwin and the Eye - Kepler’s New Astronomy

Quentin Cooper hears about the latest remarkable example of natural selection.

• 30 mins

Nature’s Best Kept Secret

Quentin Cooper hears about the DNA reading machine, the ribosome.

• 30 mins

Medical Isotopes - The End of Harappa

Quentin Cooper hears about problems in the supply of medical isotopes.

• 30 mins

Science Question and Answer Special

Quentin Cooper puts listeners' science questions to a panel of experts.

• 30 mins

02/04/2009

Quentin Cooper talks to Explorer Pen Hadow from his arctic ice expedition.

• 30 mins

09/04/2009

Forty years after the first British Concorde flight what happened to the supersonic dream?

• 30 mins

16/04/2009

Quentin Cooper samples the delights of the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

• 30 mins

23/04/2009

How machines are learning to recognise and express emotions.

• 30 mins

30/04/2009

Science behind the potential flu epidemic emanating from the Mexican 'swine' flu outbreak.

• 30 mins

07/05/2009

Quentin Cooper looks at the 'Two Cultures' divide in goverment.

• 30 mins

14/05/2009

Quentin Cooper reports on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.

• 30 mins

21/05/2009

Quentin Cooper looks at the maths of scrappage and the science of the missing link.

• 30 mins

28/05/2009

North Korea's nuclear ambitions, the causes of the 1930s 'Dustbowl', and tool-using rooks.

• 30 mins

04/06/2009

Quentin Cooper reports from the Cheltenham Science Festival.

• 30 mins

11/06/2009

Low-energy housing, cancer DNA, Swine Flu, plus stories of impending planetary collision.

• 30 mins

18/06/2009

Quentin Cooper checks out microbes, maths behind football's calendar and Leominster's air.

• 30 mins

25/06/2009

Quentin Cooper champions chimp culture, measures dinosaurs and dissects elections.

• 30 mins

02/07/2009

Quentin Cooper reports from the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2009.

• 30 mins