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BBC Inside Science

Net Zero

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Far away and not enough, those are criticisms of the government’s latest net zero initiative – a plan to reduce emissions . We ask Jim Watson Professor of Energy Policy and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources for his assessment. And there’s money to be made from private health testing, the growth of Covid testing has been followed by an upsurge in private screening for cancer in particular, but how useful is it really? BBC Health correspondent Matthew Hill takes a look. Every cell in out body carries an electrical charge. In her new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome, Sally Adee discusses how this facet might be harnessed for the detection of illnesses, medical treatments and whether it will allow us to develop hidden powers. The World Wood Web is a concept showing how trees communicate with each other through an underground fungal network. The idea was first proposed by Suzanne Simard, Now professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, who tells us how she came up with the concept and about her work on the hidden relationships of trees.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He's a rule breaker, a trend setter. He reshaped art and redefined graffiti.

0:07.4

How does he smell?

0:08.4

Like paint.

0:09.3

Has he got any distinction features?

0:10.8

His anonymity.

0:11.9

But who is he?

0:13.2

What's his name?

0:14.1

Banksy.

0:15.0

Apparently I've met him twice.

0:16.5

The Banksy story.

0:18.0

Banksy's work is always about the human spirit versus establishment.

0:24.2

Listen on BBC Science.

0:27.4

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:32.2

Hello and welcome to this edition of Inside Science.

0:35.3

Brought to you in a week where the Institute of Physics tried to stop people from calling

0:39.6

scientists boffins.

0:41.5

The tabloid daily star splashed this on their front page with the line, boffins want to ban the word boffins.

0:49.5

Anyway, in boffin land, you'd think that a blood test that could tell if you have cancer

0:54.6

cells in you would be unquestionably a good thing, but as we'll be finding out, the science

1:00.3

isn't so clear cut.

1:02.4

Also, sparks will fly as we shine a light on the electrome, our under-acknowledged electric

1:08.8

lives.

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