95bFM: Dear Science

This week on Dear Science, Allan delves into why it's more efficient to send woman to space with a potentially multi-million dollar difference. We also explore a deer tooth pendant that thanks to DNA we now know who owns it...  

This week on Dear Science the Tuesday Wire team (Beth and Milly) sit down discuss cats in all thier pawsomeness with Joel Rindelaub. From the dreaded zoomies, to deciphering humans when they're talking to each other than to them all the way to some cat conservation advice (keep them inside!!). This is the cat special of Dear Science ˶^•ﻌ•^˵

This week on Dear Science Allan Blackman joins the Tuesday Wire team in the studio to discuss accidental scientific discoveries! Accidents from scientists licking thier fingers to find new artificial sweetners, to Uranium being left in drawers, all the way to the worlds first antibiotic, we are delved into the world of the most wonderful accidents in the lab that changed science forever. 

This week on Dear Science Joel Rindelaub brings us an exciting topic all to do with the amazing anatomy of the female. Join Milly, Beth and Joel as they discuss the clitoris across the animal kingdom from dolphins to humans. 

This week on Dear Science, Joel Rindelaub joins Milly and Beth to talk all things science news. From outer space, with the precursor to DNA being found on asteroids, to altered states where gorillas spin around to get high, and back down to earth where scientists have found a way to allow two male mice sucessfully procreate.

This week on Dear Science Joel brings the listeners a fungi special, making a better name for fungi than the hit TV series The Last of Us has. From being forest farmers, food sources and carbon soakers, to in our everyday medicines keeping us alive, Joel delves in to the special world of fungi and all they have to offer!

This week on Dear Science, Beth and Milly talk to Allan Blackman about all things cutting-edge. New research reveals that too much of a good thing can be bad, with scientists proving that oxygen in high amounts can cause cell damage. A new discovery in the world of insulin has shown that the medicine used to treat type one diabetes could be made even more effective, and finally, scientists edge closer to a new room temperature superconductor - however not without some doubts. 

This week on Dear Science Milly and Beth are joined by Joel Rindelaub the day after his birthday to talk all things science! Sleep masks are proven to work in a study exploring human sensitivity to light, then it's out to space where the James Webb telescope has made some more puzzling discoveries: this time it's galaxies that are far bigger than we thought they would be, and finally finishing off with the fact than anyone can be good at maths, we just need good teachers + tutors + working hard. 

This week for Dear Science, Milly and Beth are joined by Allan Blackman in the studio to talk about the controversial Theraputic Products Bill, which passed in a landslide vote in parliment however, has been met with thousands of submissions against. Allan also shares some fantastic news about a 19-month-old whose life has been saved by a revolutionary genetic intervention, as well as an exciting prospect of medicines being able to counteract poisoning by smoke inhalation.

This week on Dear Science, Joel Rindelaub chats about animals doing drugs — from pufferfish-passing dolphins to mushroom munching reindeer.