ResearchPod
Episodes
Revisiting the collapse of the Alexander L Kielland platform
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
40 years ago, the Alexander L Kielland oil platform suffered a catastrophic structural failure and sank into the North Sea, with 123 of the crew onboa...
What makes Mozartās Clarinet Quintet what it is?
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a great work of music what it is? What integrates a given piece as one coherent whole? It may help to step back and ask what makes any give...
Examining air pollution using citizen science
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Air pollution directly contributes to a host of health concerns, and is of increasing concern in highly industrialised cities. For insights beyond air...
Physics, philosophy, and the emergence of life
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite best efforts, the origin of life on Earth remains an open mystery. In a recent analysis bridging physics, evolutionary biology and the philoso...
Engineering algae for photosynthetic fuel
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Nanette Boyle leads a lab which uses genetic engineering to design photosynthetic organisms capable of producing sustainable fuels and chemicals .H...
Picky eating: Factors affecting feeding
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many toddlers and infants go through a phase of picky eating ā this wonāt come a surprise to anyone, and is probably an intimately familiar story ...
Faith and forgiveness
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us will have heard the phrase "To err is human, to forgive divine", but personally internalising and scientifically measuring that f...
Environmental expeditions and arctic assessments
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The melt and recession of glaciers has been an environmental concern since the early 1900s, and make up a large part of the measurement and communicat...
How Our Brain Turns Language Into Meaning
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jack Gallant from the University of California, Berkeley, tells us how his team are building an atlas to the semantic system and revealing h...
Circular economies and social services
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Life in a modern, interconnected world has delivered miraculous advances in communications, technology and trade. It is also becoming widely acknowled...
Bionic hearts: Ageing, exercise and mobile monitoring
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Heart disease comes in many shapes and sizes ā the most serious cases requiring serious interventions to save the patients life, and none are more s...
Deciphering Brexit: A linguistic approach
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since entering the public sphere in 2016, Brexit has been an issue shaped by, and at whims of, media coverage. That contents of that coverage have mor...
Natural History Collections In The Digital Age
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Gunnellās work focuses on the collection, management and preservation of vertebrate fossils while his research aims to understand the origin and ...
Robots Take Ultrasound To The Fourth Dimension
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Floris Ernstās research investigates the potential for using robots and novel 3D-imaging technology to carry out ultrasounds within the so...