95bFM: Dear Science

For Dear Science we talk about the IPCC report, DNA testing and magnetic explosions

Lisa Boudet talks to Nicky Hager regarding the allegations of inappropriate behaviour by the NZDF

Justine Sachs talks us through the give a little campaign her and Nadia Abu-Shanab established in response to fines from an Israel court ruling.

And from NZ First, Fletcher Tabuteau gives us his thoughts on the Simon Bridges and Jami-Lee Ross National Party dramas

For Dear Science we talk about the IPCC Report, DNA testing and magnetic explosions.

On Dear Science today, AUT's Allan Blkackman discusses last week's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, new space worlds and viagra.

On Dear Science today, AUT's Allan Blkackman discusses last week's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, new space worlds and viagra.

Allan joins us in studio this week to talk all things Nobel! Prize season is upon us, so we break down this year's achievements in Physics and Medicine. First up are immunologists James Allison and Tasuku Honjo who received the medicine Nobel prize for discovering how to release the brakes cancer puts on the immune system, with dramatically postivie results in patients with melanomas. We then celebrate the third female to ever win the physics Nobel, and the first in 55 years Prof Donna Strickland, alongside Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou, for their groundbreaking work with laserbeams.

Allan joins us in studio this week to talk all things Nobel! Prize season is upon us, so we break down this year's achievements in Physics and Medicine. First up are immunologists James Allison and Tasuku Honjo who received the medicine Nobel prize for discovering how to release the brakes cancer puts on the immune system, with dramatically postivie results in patients with melanomas. We then celebrate the third female to ever win the physics Nobel, and the first in 55 years Prof Donna Strickland, alongside Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou, for their groundbreaking work with laserbeams.

AUT's Allan Blackman is back! After a few weeks working and vacationing in Italy and France, he braves the cold and rain to talk about lab fires (and potential uselessness of Health and Safety procedures), hangry-ness (which he's sceptical about due to lack of anecdotal experience), and gene drives (and whether eradicating a mosquito is alright or not). 

AUT's Allan Blackman is back! After a few weeks working and vacationing in Italy and France, he braves the cold and rain to talk about lab fires (and potential uselessness of Health and Safety procedures), hangry-ness (which he's sceptical about due to lack of anecdotal experience), and gene drives (and whether eradicating a mosquito is alright or not). 

For Dear Science, Marcus Jones joins us for his last week covering Allan and we talk about plastic in the  ocean, predisposed forgiveness, and Ig-Nobel prizes.

E kōrero ana au ki a Marcus Jones mō te Ao Putaiao, e pā ana ki ngā whakawhiwhinga (awards), ngā haumātakataka. For Dear Science with AUT's Marcus Jones, we talk about Pulsars & Nobel Prizes, and hurricanes and cyclones.