The Science and Cocktails Podcast
Episodes
16: Hidden Fungal Communities
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fungi help regulate Earth’s climate and ecosystems by forming underground networks that draw down carbon and provide essential nutrients to plants. ...
15: Polarized Society
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Polarization is spreading through the world wide web in the political arenas as well as in the rest of society. But is polarization a new thing or i...
14: Mapping the brain to understand the physical storage of knowledge
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The secrets of the mind have been investigated at all times, by most people and in most scientific disciplines from philosophy, social science and psy...
13: Coral bleaching. -The Dark Future of the Coral Reefs with Callum Roberts, the great protector of coral reefs
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coral reefs occupy less than 1% of the ocean but are home to 25% of the ocean's species. Unfortunately, nowadays the corals are bleaching. This is bec...
12: How Autism Drives Human Invention
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A while ago Simon Baron-Cohen filled up the big concert hall at the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation with curious and excited Science and Cock...
11: Tracing Algorithms
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Science and Cocktails production funded by The Novo Nordisk Foundation. Contributing Scientists; - Stine Lomberg, Associate Professor and leader...
10: What makes a Murderer. - The biology of violence.
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Science and Cocktails production funded by The Novo Nordisk Foundation. Contributing Scientist; Adrian Raine, Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry a...
9: What is self
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Science and Cocktails production funded by The Novo Nordisk Foundation. Contributing Scientist; Dan Zahavi, professor of philosophy and director o...
8: Gender in Science
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Science and Cocktails production Funded by The Novo Nordisk Foundation Contributing Scientist; Ea Høg Utoft, Postdoc at the Department of Politica...
7: Under the Trees
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The rainforest is a unique ecosystem in a delicate balance. If a larger part of the forest is destroyed the balance will be tipped resolving the whole...
6: The World is Coming to an End
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting much faster than predicted due to several amplifying processes. Jason Box has seen the environmental changes with h...
5: The Pill
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Birth Control Pill has liberated women by making it possible to control when to have children. But using the pill is not without a prize, for many...
4: CRISPR- a tool for human genome modification and so much more..
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CRISPR is an adaptive immune system found in a bacterium and archaea, which is now used as a tool for human genome modification. And technology is dev...
3: Quantum Computers on the rise and the end of human disasters
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The development of Quantum Computers is moving and it is moving fast. Charles Marcus is one of the scientists pushing things forwards and holding the ...
2: Climate Change and Vector-borne diseases
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As global climate change leads to rising temperature and increasing rainfall vectors, like mosquitoes and ticks, carrying deadly diseases, are increas...
1: Loneliness in Coronatimes
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The global interventions to protect populations from the Corona pandemic has had enormous side effects in relation to the general mental health. Becau...