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UnavailableClimate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9
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Climate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9

FromBBC Inside Science


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Climate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9

FromBBC Inside Science

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Mar 30, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Following yesterday's US House Committee on Science,Space,and Technology's controversial hearing on scientific method and climate change, Adam Rutherford meets atmospheric scientist Professor Michael Mann after he emerged from the heated debate and who's just published a new paper suggesting a direct link between extreme weather and greenhouse gases via a particular behaviour of the jet stream across the northern hemisphere

How has intelligence evolved? For over 2 decades the idea has prevailed that primate brain size and intelligence has been driven mainly by complex social hierarchies. But a new study by Alex DeCascien of New York University suggests that diet is a better predictor of brain size.

This month is the 6th anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated much of Japan's coastline. Roland Pease reports on new research that aims to embrace uncertainty to improve quake forecasting

And we hear how you can join in the search for the missing mysterious 9th planet of our solar system. Adam Rutherford hears from astronomer Brad Tucker on Walkabout at the Mount Stromlo Observatory in New South Wales

Producer: Adrian Washbourne.
Released:
Mar 30, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.