Chris Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Aug
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And you're talking about flying aircraft through these things.
About um twenty years ago I interviewed a journalist who managed to get aboard an aircraft that flew through Hurricane Katrina and and actually went through the eyewall many times.
And he said ironically, as there were people being thrown around in the cabin, scientists trying to make measurements, they did have a fasten your seatbelt sign that came on and off.
So everyone was having a good laugh at that.
But you're so you're gonna fly over the plume and and use radar and other instruments w
Is this to sort of try and see effectively the a the anatomy of what's going on inside that cloud and the air currents and the relative velocities, where th things are moving and how fast?
What will you do with the data?
Is it the end goal to build some kind of big model of how this can happen so that when we get outbreaks of fires like this, people can say, Well we we've got almost like a weather forecast for what the fire's gonna do so that we can predict where the resources are gonna need to be, where we evacuate people.
I mean, is that ultimately the goal of of of this?
Nature is an incredible force to be reckoned with, isn't it?
Derek Mallier there from the Inspire team following pyrocumulo nimbus clouds across the US this summer.
Surgery is often the first step in treating glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer.
But even the most skilled surgeon can't remove every cancerous cell, and the tissue left at the surgical margin is usually where the cancer returns.
But now scientists have uncovered a promising way to close this gap by using drug wrapped nanoparticles that can sneak into the brain post op and
and blitz any residual cancer.
It's the brain child of Manchester scientist Tom Kisby.
How are you trying to surmount this?
So you take advantage of the fact that the blood brain barrier is temporarily dismantled by the surgical intervention to remove the tumour, and so you can use that window of opportunity to sneak these particles in there.
What's in the particles then that makes them want to home into that bit of the brain?
And therefore you're gonna concentrate them where the action was, which means you g if you have a drug in there, it would concentrate where the action was, you minimize side effects in the rest of the body and you get the drug where it does crucially need to go to mop up any stray cancer your surgeon's left behind.
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