Back from the Dead

Our antibiotics are failing us. In 2025, the UK Government said antibiotic resistance (AMR) contributes to more than 35,000 deaths each year in the UK. Emergency doctors say they are losing patients on a regular basis when they run out of ways to treat them. Antibiotics have save ...  Show more

Have you ever been told you aren't good enough to do something, then gone ahead and proved the naysayers wrong by doing it anyway - in glorious, headline-grabbing style? That is the satisfying story of Dr Dean Lomax. Dean grew up in Doncaster with a passion for fossils but after ...  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