Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Gaia Vince takes you for a mosey around his year's Summer Science Exhibition, held by London's Royal Society. Along the way, PRS Sir Adrian Smith talks of reforming A-Levels and a sorry international science collaboration situation as many european research grants are terminated amidst a Brexit withdrawal agreement stand-offs. The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition is on until Sunday 10th July, it is free to attend and there are many activities and events online too. Presented by Gaia Vince Produced by Alex Mansfield

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0:35.8	Hello, hello, this is the podcast edition of BBC Inside Science,
0:40.4	originally broadcast on the 7th of July 2022.
0:44.0	I'm Guy Evans, and we're out and about this week as we're taking you to the Royal Society in London,
0:50.1	just off the mile, which is hosting its famous summer science exhibition for the first time since the pandemic.
0:57.5	And it's such a treat to be back inside this beautiful building.
1:01.8	And I say lots of people have beaten me too at the place it's buzzing.
1:05.2	There's all ages here, anyone with an interest in science.
1:09.8	There's a pretty eclectic range of exhibits too.
1:12.4	There's a stand-on marine migration, and oh, there's one on space weather.
1:17.2	Oh, this looks cool.
1:19.6	Okay, so I am drawn here by the announcement on your notice,
1:24.8	which says, what would you do with an extra thumb?
1:27.3	And not only that, but you have a 3D printer here that is printing right next to us entire hands.
1:34.5	And I would like an entire hand, but failing that, an extra thumb would be fantastic.
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