For Dear Science we talk about retracted research, germ infested hand dryers, and the latest Breakthrough award - which is worth more than the nobel prize.
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).
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 mātou ki a Marcus Jones mō te Ao Putaiao, e pā ana ki ngā whakawhiwhinga me ngā haumātakataka. For Dear Science with AUT's Marcus Jones, we talk about Pulsars and Nobel Prizes, and hurricanes and cyclones.
While Allan is away in Tuscany enjoying sun and wine, we gather in our little studio with Marcus Jones, also professor of Chemistry at AUT, to talk about science.
And today, we cover a tiny air leak that could have proven very dangerous for the International Space Station. We also talk about daylight saving: why? what? and is it really necessary? Finally, we wonder why finding an adequate substitute for salt is so tricky, and discover that MSG might be the answer (!)
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we are talking about how we are capable of smelling, dodgy psych studies, and a botched execution in a Nebraska state which may be due to the drugs used.
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we talk about why people are left-handed, the potential waste that contact lenses represent, and using oxygen to kill infections.
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