Palaeo Ponderings: Can You Dig It?
Did dinosaurs live in herds? Why are mountains pointy? And what's the best preserved mummy? Plus...
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Podcasts de geology
The Earth’s surface is dappled with more than a thousand volcanoes. They mark the edges of...
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Water is essential for life – that we know. But the honeycomb lattice that forms when you chill...
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Water is essential for life – that we know. But the honeycomb lattice that forms when you chill...
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ENCORE The record of the rocks is not just the history of Earth; it’s your history too....
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ENCORE We all may retreat to our protective shells, but evolution has perfected the calcite...
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Pluto, we hardly knew ye. Well, not anymore! Until recently, Pluto and Mars were respectively...
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ENCORE Water is essential for life – that we know. But the honeycomb lattice that forms when...
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Is Life Inevitable? (Rebroadcast)
A new theory about life’s origins updates Darwin’s warm little pond. Scientists say they’ve...
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Water is essential for life – that we know. But the honeycomb lattice that forms when you chill...
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Geology is Destiny (rebroadcast)
The record of the rocks is not just the history of Earth; it’s your history too. Geologists can...
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New Water Worlds (rebroadcast)
New Water Worlds The seas are rising. It’s no longer a rarity to see kayakers paddling through...
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Above the Arctic Circle, much of the land is underlaid by permafrost. But climate change is...
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Canadian lake could mark the start of new geological epoch
Plutonium from nuclear weapons, industrial waste, and human activity more broadly have left such...
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The mysteries of volcanoes: what’s going on beneath the ground in Iceland?
As Iceland braces for a volcanic eruption, Madeleine Finlay hears from volcanologist Helga...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth with Ta-Shana Taylor
What is the Earth made of? That’s the question at the core (pun intended!) of this episode....
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Goldilocks and the origin of animals - insights from the far north
The Cambrian Explosion is one of the most spectacular episodes in Earth history, with the first...
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The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history?
Human activity has transformed the Earth – but scientists are divided about whether this is...
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Best audio long reads of 2019: the Anthropocene epoch
Have we entered a new phase of planetary history? Human activity has transformed the Earth – but...
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From the archives: the fate of Arctic sea ice
As the Science Weekly team continue their summer break, we’re digging through the archives....
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