176 - A New Way to Fight Super Bacteria

On today’s episode: Raindrops hold little lightning bolts that are damaging your car. The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded for 2026. All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESRaindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds | Ars Technic ...  Show more

On today’s episode:The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched! Carbon dioxide is making our carrots less nutritious. All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESNASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data'The apple you eat isn't the apple your ...  Show more

The looming danger of antibiotic resistance may have fallen out of the public consciousness but is still very much in the mind of those in public healthcare and research. As promising new research is published, the University of Birmingham’s Laura Piddock and GP Margaret McCartne ...  Show more

Since antibiotics were first discovered, bacteria have been evolving to outsmart them. But today, the latest science is rising up to meet the challenge. This season of Science Will Win is exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can help the scientific community overcome one ...

Today, Claudia Hammond and her panel of experts focus on what’s been called “the silent pandemic”, the threat to modern medicine of anti-microbial resistance or AMR.Infections are increasingly resistant to live-saving drugs like antibiotics and many believe the very future of mod ...  Show more

We are on the precipice of a looming crisis. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the evolution of deadly pathogens like bacteria and fungi to resist all current antimicrobial medicines. In this episode, we talk about how the dwindling supply of new antibiotics is fueling this silen ...  Show more