Back from the Dead

Imagine looking at a map of a city you thought you knew inside-out, only to discover a collection of tightly knit neighbourhoods that nobody had ever realised existed... Edith Heard has achieved something rather similar with DNA.Edith is a leading expert in epigenetics: put simpl ...  Show more

What do you do when your childhood dream of becoming an astronaut is grounded at the final hurdle?If you’re physicist Ginger Kerrick, you go on to help run the missions instead.After failing the medical of her astronaut application process, Ginger went on to become Nasa’s first n ...  Show more

On World Parrot Day, Brent talks to Francois La Grange, a scientist working with the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots, an organization working to reintroduce the spix macaw into the wild.  The spix macaw is currently extinct in the wild. See omnystudio.com/l ...  Show more

Australia is home to a kind of bird that is the second largest in the world and can kill a human being, making it the closest living version of a velociraptor? Of course it is!

Researchers put this ancient critter through a subzero gauntlet to learn more about what happens to their internal clock while surviving the extreme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Alice Irizarry and Patrick Woodward talk about a most interesting bird and what was done to keep it from becoming extinct. https://spotlightenglish.com/science-and-technology/the-great-bustard-returns/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app ...  Show more