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January 2008 to current broadcast

• 15 May 2008: Audio (mp3 file)
  Squid eyes, anti-flu drugs, ice core bubbles that reveal ancient climate cycles and economist Jeffrey Sachs on the 'crowded planet challenge'.
• 15 May 2008 Podcast Extra: Audio (mp3 file)
  In this extended interview with economist Jeffrey Sachs, find out why he remains optimistic in the face of our ailing planet.
• 08 May 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  The wonderfully weird platypus genome, fat cells and why it's hard to stay slim, and the gene that makes men male.
• 1 May 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  How eye components regulate our internal clock and act as a chemical compass, the missing 'memristor' and a worrying 'flight of talent' from academic science.
• 24 April 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Beetles that contribute to global warming, the solution to a cosmic mystery, conjurer and sceptic James Randi, and why space exploration deserves government funding.
• 17 April 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  James Watson's genome, an 'elixir' for blood cells, the latest step in quantum computing and 'Science 2.0' - scientists get involved with new technologies on the web.
• 10 April 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Blood cell lines redrawn, light that squeezes through holes smaller than its own wavelength and how Amazon air mops up pollutants.
• 03 April 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Genes and the risk of lung cancer, seeing in 3D, combing the skies for 'other Earths', Antarctic dust, and the IPCC's climate policy is 'too optimistic'.
• 27 March 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  The oldest European, a puzzle over how RNA interference works, the evolution of complexity and a call for temperance in debates of evolution vs creationism.
• 20 March 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Punish and be damned; an organic compound on an exoplanet; a scientific study of incompetence; and water, water everywhere.
• 13 March 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Cows, sheep and their parasitic worms, animals in the lab, and combating deforestation in the Amazon.
• 6 March 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  A 'doomsday' seed bank in Svalbard, the last pieces of the CERN jigsaw puzzle, a new method for brain-reading and Creationism in Texas.
• 28 February 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Malaria prevention in Zambia, marine predator food-finding behaviour, rare massive stars and doomed climate change policies.
• 21 February 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Self-healing rubber, a Martian delta recreated on Earth, highlights from the AAAS meeting in Boston and Darwin's American pen pal.
• 14 February 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  The evolution of echolocation in bats, the researchers who turned speed dating into science, why some breast cancers develop resistance to therapy, and power dressing; how your clothes could soon be powering your mobile phone.
• 07 February 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Star Wars style 3D holograms, watching Alzheimer's disease developing in the brain, Darwin's enduring legacy and our PODium speaker wonders what's on the horizon of scientific research?
• 31 January 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  A pair of giant earthquakes, more hurricanes in the Atlantic, two pieces of flu research that don't quite match up and cognitive enhancing drugs for scientists.
• 24 January 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  There's more carbon in Ol' Man River, we're getting older, faster, the inside story on the US military's research arm and scientists are publishing more papers, but how many are duplicates?
• 17 January 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  Brain cells that help songbirds to sing along, a new target for anti-HIV drugs, a clever chemical trick for manipulating uranium and scientific protagonists in novels — our PODium speaker asks why there aren't more of them.
• 10 January 2008: Audio (mp3 file) | Text (html)
  A baby planet, magnetic monopoles, how Down's syndrome protects against cancer and a potential drug target for parasitic diseases such as toxoplasmosis and malaria.

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