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BBC Inside Science

The state of nature in the UK

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode Victoria Gill speaks to Nida al-Fulaij, conservation research manager at the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, about the UK’s new State of Nature report. Climate change, habitat loss and intensive agricultural practices have been blamed for the decline in species. But all is not lost. Victoria pays a visit to an eco-friendly farm and finds out how innovative agricultural practices can boost wildlife in the UK’s fields. We’re kicking off our series of programmes covering The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. Chair of the judges is Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling at the University of Oxford. He gives us a rundown of this year’s shortlisted entries. This week, scientists at CERN in Switzerland announced they have observed how antimatter behaves in the presence of gravity. Particle physicist Jeffrey Hangst, who led the Alpha experiment, tells us why this is a big deal. We also have the latest on OSIRIS-REx mission, the first NASA mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The capsule parachuted down into the Utah desert this week. It contained a precious cargo of rock and dust samples taken from an asteroid named Bennu. Jon Amos, the BBC’s science correspondent is in Utah and witnessed the return. He tells Victoria all about it. BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University. Presenter:  Victoria Gill Producers: Hannah Robins, Harrison Lewis, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Editor: Richard Collings    Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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really dig into them.

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0:23.4

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0:25.6

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0:29.3

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0:36.9

Hello you wonderful curious minded people.

0:39.2

This is the podcast edition of BBC Inside Science,

0:42.0

first broadcast on the 28th of September 2023.

0:45.5

I'm Victoria Gill.

0:48.0

This week we're solving some of the mysteries of our universe.

0:52.7

You know, why is the universe made of matter and not antimatter?

0:56.0

It's like half the universe has gone missing.

1:00.0

And we're finding out what research is a planning to do with a four and a half

1:03.6

billion year old chunk of asteroid when they get their hands and their scientific instruments on it.

1:09.0

Touchdown of the Osiris Rex Sampler turn capsule,

1:11.7

a journey of a billion miles to asteroid Bennu and back has come to an end.

1:17.0

More on the remarkable recovery of that sample from the asteroid Bennu shortly.

1:21.9

And we're delving into new science writing that's far more thrilling and much more

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