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BBC Inside Science

Mapping the universe

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A rocket launch, super-massive black holes and ghost particles! This past week’s scientific findings are testament to how hard-at-work cosmologists and physicists have been seeking out the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the rules that govern it. Professor of Cosmology at UCL, Andrew Pontzen, joins Marnie Chesterton to discuss the lot of them. Euclid took to the stars on Saturday, carrying a wide-angle space telescope that promises the opportunity to create a far larger and accurate 3D map of the universe to anything ever seen before. Gravitational waves detected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOgrav) provide insight into the role black holes play in galaxy formation. And neutrinos recorded in the remote ices of Antarctica have been detected from the centre of our Milky Way. Dr Stuart Farrimond also joins us for the next few weeks with his pitch on the science of gardening. He’ll be digging up facts and tips that will help make the most out of summer blooms. This week Stu unearths how the pH of your soil could be hindering the flowerbeds. And visit a Welsh quarry with reporter Ella Hubber to hear how a mere 462 million years ago new species were exploding onto the scene. Palaeontologists Dr Joe Botting and Dr Lucy Muir stumbled across the most abundant and rare deposit of soft bodied fossils on record, scoring an archaeological jackpot! Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Harrison Lewis Content producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Assistant producer: Robbie Wojciechowski Editor: Richard Collings

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to Woman's Hour.

0:04.0

I never would have dreamed of going out and playing in front of thousands of people all

0:07.8

around, you know, center court.

0:09.4

The daily podcast featuring women's voices.

0:12.1

It seems that I'm a threat and they scared all women like me who can say no to this barbaric

0:17.6

regime talking about women's lives.

0:20.1

You're doing what every other girl is doing, just going out at night, having fun and they

0:25.2

again, villainized us for it.

0:26.9

Woman's Hour.

0:27.9

First, on BBC Sounds.

0:30.2

This is the podcast for Inside Science, first aired on the 6th of July 2023.

0:35.5

I'm Marnie Chesterton.

0:37.8

It's been an eventful week in science land, and over the next half hour I'm going to give

0:42.4

you the cliff notes on telescopes in space, massive black holes, and an experiment at the

0:47.8

South Pole drilled into a kilometre-sized cube of ice.

0:52.1

I say I'm going to, but truthfully, I'm delegating that job to someone actually qualified.

0:57.5

UCL's Cosmology Professor Andrew Ponson.

0:59.9

Hello, Andrew.

1:00.9

Hello.

1:01.9

And for those of you who prefer your science closer to your backyard, we've got that

1:05.5

too, with our Science of Gardening series.

1:08.1

pH is something that Gardener's love to talk about.

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