Nicola Davis

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498 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Aug

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Science Weekly · The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

the Lime Regis Museum and people associated with it have written to their local MP, who's written on to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, to ask for a change to export licenses.

It's not about stopping the sale or or preventing every fossil from being sold.

I think that's important to say.

It's not not that.

I think there's just a some people are hoping

that there could be more checks and balances so that the biggest and most important things can be kept here.

And indeed there are efforts underfoot from some countries, so for example, Brazil and Mongolia, if you find a fossil there now, that belongs to the state and it's very difficult to export that.

And there have been cases of fossils h being repatriated back to those countries that have been found to have been essentially smuggled and sold abroad.

So countries are taking different

approaches.

Particularly, you know, the the global south a lot of fossils were found and were then

just taken and sold and and obviously that again is about sort of that cultural heritage and and who owns those fossils.

So again, I think that there are questions not just in the UK but around the world about how do you handle this?

another comb of the beach.

Science Weekly · Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode three – a bag for life · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Hi, I'm Nicola Davis, a science correspondent here at The Guardian, and this is the final episode of a special Science Weekly miniseries, A Scottish Tea Mystery, Episode 3, A Bag for Life.

When Food Standard Scotland investigator Stuart Wilson had collected all the information he could on Tam O'Brien and his supposedly Scottish teas, the evidence pointed one way.

Neither the tea plants nor the vast majority of those finished products were genuine.

The plants had arrived in Scotland from the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy, and Professor David Burslem had explored the origins of the processed teas, confirming most clearly did not come from Scottish soils.

And so Stuart set about finding out where they had come from.

It wasn't just hotels and shops that had received fraudulent tea from Tam.

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