Buzz kill
BBC Inside Science
BBC
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As spring and Brexit loom, Adam Rutherford examines what stance the UK might take on neonicotinoids. The pesticide has been shown to harm bee populations by many scientific studies. Now, the largest report of its kind has put pressure on the EU to vote on whether three types of neonics should be banned. Will the UK follow Europe's lead if the ban is legislated?
Fly tipping is a problem faced by most authorities. But conservationists at the Creekside Discovery Centre in Deptford are embracing the carpets and shopping trolleys that have washed up in their creek in south-east London. They even argue that the rubbish provides a safe haven for wildlife. Graihagh Jackson investigates.
Graphene is often touted as a wonder material but now this carbon sheet could be making an unexpected appearance in your bathroom cabinet as hair dye.
The world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and a general relativity. Inside Science examines his scientific legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service. |
| 0:04.7 | Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests. |
| 0:08.8 | Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook. |
| 0:11.2 | Technology doesn't want to be good or bad. |
| 0:15.0 | It's in the hands of the creator. |
| 0:16.7 | It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room. |
| 0:20.7 | If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, |
| 0:24.6 | you're doing the wrong thing. |
| 0:25.9 | Julie, at your service. Listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello you, this is the podcast of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first |
| 0:35.4 | broadcast on the Ides of March 2018 I'm Adam Rutherford very happy to be |
| 0:40.6 | back thank you to Marnie and Garth for keeping the fires burning. |
| 0:44.4 | It is a sad day though to hear of Stephen Hawking's death this week and we'll be talking |
| 0:48.0 | about that at the end of the program. |
| 0:49.8 | But I also want to acknowledge the death of another Titan of science, from my field in fact, which is genetics. |
| 0:55.7 | Sir John Solston was one of the most brilliant and important geneticists of the last few decades, |
| 1:01.0 | who won a Nobel Prize for his work on the genes that regulate the cell cycle, |
| 1:04.9 | but should also be remembered for his immense work in driving the Human Genome Project. |
| 1:10.1 | He was a vocal advocate of making sure that all the data generated by that immense endeavor |
| 1:15.3 | was free to all humankind, which it is to this day. I met him on a few occasions, |
| 1:20.1 | and apart from his incomparable intellectual contribution to humankind, |
| 1:24.0 | he was also a very nice man. |
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