AUT's Allan Blackman joins us again for Dear Science this week. He chats to Ximena about how the man who invented stereo has received a posthumous Grammy award; how Trump's recent comments about uranium sparked a global conversation about the element; and finally about how scientists have just discovered that helium can actually form compounds.
Today on Dear Science, AUT’s Professor Steve Pointing is back with us after his summer break. This week, Steve chats to Ximena about the perfect mixture of components that exist - water, oxygen, the atmosphere & proximity to the sun - which make life viable on planet Earth.
AUT's Allan Blackman joins The Wire again for another week. This week, he talks about a botched lab experiment at a UK university, where two students were given a dose of caffeine equivalent to 300 cups of coffee; a surprise animal that tops the list of the most deadly venomous creatures in Australia; and also about how scientists in the US have managed to create the first piece of solid metallic hydrogen.
AUT Professor of Chemistry, Allan Blackman, is back for another week before Steve Pointing returns in February. Today on the show, Allan chats to Ximena about a tragic story of medical quackery in the UK, where a woman was conned into an expensive 'alkaline treatment' for her breast cancer. They also talk about new discoveries this week of extreme temperatures - astronomers have stumbled across hotter temperatures than were thought possible, while at the other end of the spectrum, the coldest temperature in the universe has been created in a lab.
Today on Dear Science, we have a guest covering Steve - his name is Allan Blackman, he teaches Chemistry at AUT, and he’ll be with us for the next few weeks until Steve gets back in February. Ximena chats to him on the show today about the death this week of the last person to walk on the moon, how the US army want to design biodegradable plant-growing bullets, and also about how it’s just been confirmed that carbon can exceed its four bond limit.
This week on Dear Science Frances Wright talks with AUT professor Marcus Jones about and IPCC report that says human influence on global warming is 'unequivocal', an analysis which reveals that strange turns of phrase may indicate foul play in science, and the explanation of a mysterious dimming of the bright star Betelgeuse.
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