Hello you this is the podcast of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first broadcasts on the

19th of January 2017 I'm Adam Rutherford

Radio 4 is currently bulging with science monkey cage is back with a vengeance, science stories are on with a vengeance,

and Jim Alcalalei is back with a vengeance on the life scientific. Inside science is of course on every

week so no vengeance required.

I don't really know what vengeance means anyway, here we go.

If you've got a January cold and are currently trying to expel various viruses, we talk to the people who want to put viruses

into you and with good reason their mission to search and destroy cancer cells.

And mice are not men or women, but we use them all the time to understand disease and develop therapies.

So we're taking a look at animal research and the validity of using mice and rats as models for us.

And we say goodbye to the last man on the moon.

Houston, I could even see Poppy right where we're going to set this baby down.

Man, Gordo, this is absolutely spectacular.

Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan who died on Monday.

But first, news in this week that the British Antarctic survey is to pull all staff out of its Hally 6 base in March for safety reasons.

The Hally base is a fabulous piece of space-age looking tech, living quarters and laboratories

all arranged to look like a giant caterpillar

and it's positioned on the brunt ice shelf which is floating on the Weddle Sea

in Antarctica.

Their British polar researchers and their colleagues make observations and run experiments that look at everything

from space weather to global warming. So the announcement that they're all being evacuated is quite a big deal.

Hilmar Goodmanson is a geologist from the British Antarctic survey and he's on the line from

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