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BBC Inside Science

Sea Level Rise, Equine Flu, Generator Bricks, Iberian Genes

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 2016 some scientists suggested that with climate change so much ice in Antarctica could melt that the global sea level could rise up to a metre. There would be an "ice apocalypse". Now another group has refined the models and in a paper published this week has concluded that the rise will be lower. Adam Rutherford and lead author Dr Tamsin Edwards of Kings College London discuss the latest research and how policy makers and the public should react to changing results from ice sheet studies. All race meetings in the UK have been cancelled today following the discovery that three horses have been diagnosed with equine flu, despite having been vaccinated. Expert on equine flu at the University of Nottingham, Dr Janet Daly, talks to Adam about the disease, how the outbreak has come about and the process of making a new vaccine. What if the walls of your house generated their own electricity? It may sound far-fetched, but one team in the chemistry department of King’s College London is trying to do just that. Reporter Hannah Fisher went to visit Dr Leigh Aldous to discover his invention – a brick, which is hoped to be made out of recycled plastic, that can generate its own electricity. While the project is still in its early stages, it is hoped that the brick will be able to be used in off-grid and remote locations, as well as those affected by natural disasters. Scientists have analysed DNA samples from people living on the Iberian Peninsula to determine their genetic heritage. Results revealed near vertical stripes running from the north of the peninsula to the south, indicating that at this fine resolution, Spanish people are more genetically similar from north to south as opposed to east to west. Dr Clare Bycroft of Oxford University chats to Adam more about how this fits with what we know about Spanish history.

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0:08.8

Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook.

0:11.2

Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.

0:15.0

It's in the hands of the creator.

0:16.7

It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.

0:20.7

If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes,

0:24.6

you're doing the wrong thing.

0:26.0

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0:36.0

Hello You!

0:37.0

This is Inside Science from BBC Radio 4.

0:39.0

First broadcasts on the 31st of January...

0:41.0

No, it wasn't. That was last week. On the 7th of February 2019, I'm

0:46.4

Adam Rutherford, the history of Spain today as told with DNA we cover a thousand years

0:51.1

of invasion, conquest, re-invwest, all mapped out by an incredibly

0:56.1

detailed look at the genes of living Spaniards.

0:59.2

We have an electricity generating brick, one that makes use of the fact that it's colder inside than out, and could be a way of generating power in refugee camps.

1:07.0

And with all the horse races in the UK cancelled today because of an outbreak of equine flu, we take a look at the virus, the horses and how to contain the infection.

1:15.9

But first, humankind's impact on the Antarctic is something we monitor and model very closely,

1:20.8

not least because the frozen south is a good metric by which we can assess the change

1:24.6

in global climate, but also because a warming planet has more obvious and significant effects

1:29.2

down there. No models predicts that there won't be a sea level rise as the climate changes,

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