Allan Blackman chats to Lillian about recovering gold from old tech devices, ice that is nearly as hot as the sun and the ethics around conducting studies on live pig brains.
On todays segment of Dear Science with AUT's Allan Blackman, we talk about a Nazi warship during WW2 damaging the growth of Norweigan trees using chemical smokescreens. Allan takes us into the fascinating world of chemical recycling using enzymes, bacteria and some awesome science. And finally Will thinks its Einsteins birthday anniversary but alas its the anniversary of the day he died, Allan is quite sad about this.
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we talk about power cuts and the science TV series Connections, proteins on old documents that tell us about the environment the writer was in at the time, and the separation of Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Today Allan talks us through some very very distant stars that are also very old. He explains how there is a new black that pretty much almost nearly absorbs ALL light. We talk through the sound your knuckles make when you crack them and mention the rogue space station that finally came down near Tahiti this week.
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we talk about the male contraceptive pill, the prototype space station crashing to earth, and a new moth species that’s been named after Donald Trump.
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we pay tribute to Stephen Hawking, discuss Platypus milk, and a new University campaign with the concept of "unlearning".
On Dear Science with AUT’s Alan Blackman we talk about alcohol prolonging life, the birthday of the father of prebiotic chemistry Stanley Miller and a brand new state of matter.
On todays segment of Dear Science with AUT's Allan Blackman, we talk about how x-rays have discovered the inner workings of Picassos art, how dietry supplement may not be as they seem, and how an ameture scientific photographer has managed to snap the first image of a suspended atom using a standard camera.
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