Listeners' Science Questions
BBC Inside Science
BBC
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Adam Rutherford and guests oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski, cosmologist Dr Andrew Pontzen and zoologist Dr Tim Cockerill answer the listeners' science questions.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
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| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less searching |
| 0:25.7 | and a lot more watching. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello you and this is a very special edition of Inside Science from the BBC, my name's |
| 0:34.0 | Adam Rutherford and this was first broadcast on the 7th of May 2015. |
| 0:39.0 | While you're all eagerly awaiting the outcome of democracy, we're running our own version of question time, where you have |
| 0:45.5 | asked the questions. We've been soliciting your scientific queries for a few weeks now, |
| 0:49.6 | things that have been bugging you, making you scratch your heads, and boy did you send them in. |
| 0:54.7 | So we've assembled our regular expert panel covering a range of scientific disciplines and |
| 0:59.5 | specialist topics. Unlike question time, these guys have seen the questions beforehand so they're not just making it up as they go along. |
| 1:06.0 | Panel, please introduce yourselves. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Tim Cockrell, I'm a zoologist and I'm really interested in biodiversity and ecology. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Andrew Ponson. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm an astronomer at University College London |
| 1:18.0 | and I'm particularly interested in cosmology, |
| 1:20.0 | how the universe began and what's in it. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Helen Chersky. I'm a physicist at University College London and I study the bubbles underneath breaking waves. |
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