Science after Brexit
BBC Inside Science
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🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The UK is one of the largest recipients of research funding in the EU. Marnie Chesterton discusses what the future of UK science funding will look like with MP Norman Lamb, who chairs the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, and Ed Whiting, Director of Policy and Chief of Staff at the Wellcome Trust.
Around 4,500 years ago, 90% of the British population was replaced by incomers known as the Beaker people. Across Europe archaeologists have uncovered elements of the Beaker culture - bell-shaped pots, copper daggers, arrowheads, stone wrist guards and distinctive perforated buttons -it's always been a mystery as to whether these finds represent a wave of mass migration or the sharing of ideas between peoples. Now ancient DNA studies show it was both, and for Britain reveal a huge population change which still resonates today.
A new collaboration between an artist and a cyclone physicist commences this week.They joined forces to model Hurricane Katrina and cast its shape into six brass bells. Each bell represents a key moment from the category 5 storm, as it progressed across the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in the United States in 2005. The finished collection will feature in a BBC Radio 4 documentary later this year.
And how does the moon affect life on earth? specifically worms - we unearth a species of worm that times its mating ritual by the waxing and waning Moon.
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| 0:35.8 | broadcast on the 22nd of February 2018. I'm Marnie Chesterton stepping |
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| 0:47.6 | This is the program that brings you the latest from the world of science and this week we'll |
| 0:51.4 | be tracking the movements of the Bell Beaker people who 4,500 years ago changed Britain forever. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll also be tracking Hurricane Katrina by casting it as a bell and that level of precision playing is why I was never |
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| 1:13.0 | But first, I'm recording this from the shadows of Big Ben because today a load of eminent scientists are meeting here at the institution of Civil Engineers for a Science and Innovation |
| 1:25.8 | Summit hosted by the Commons Science and Technology Committee. The short of it is |
| 1:30.6 | lots of UK science is currently funded by European pots of money. |
| 1:35.0 | What are the options for seamlessly continuing UK research whilst withdrawing from the European Union? |
| 1:41.0 | The Select Committee, made up of MPs of all parties |
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