by rendani | Oct 18, 2017 | News, The Science Inside
Japanese researchers have genetically engineered hens whose eggs contain drugs that can fight serious diseases including cancer, so this week’s show focuses on genetics Genetically personalised or precision medicine, when a treatment has been chosen or...
by rendani | Oct 13, 2017 | News, The Science Inside
Computers have become an ubiquitous part of our lives already, but what’s ahead in the future? We talk to Manuel Blum, the Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Fatma Deniz, a PostDoc student at the University of California at...
by rendani | Oct 4, 2017 | News, The Science Inside
North Korea and the USA continue to threatening nuclear war with each other. Tonight’s episode focuses averting nuclear war and treating nuclear waste. Professor Martin Hellman from Stanford University talks about a unique way to avert nuclear war. In...
by rendani | Sep 20, 2017 | News, The Science Inside
Following the hurricanes that have hit parts of North America and Cuba, we find out from Jan Vermeulen, a senior forecaster at the SA Weather Service, what exactly these natural disasters are. Professor Jasper Knight from the department of geography at University of...
by rendani | Sep 12, 2017 | News, The Science Inside
The Kenyan government recently banned the use of plastic bags in that country. This week’s show is on plastic products and the impact they have. We talk to Dr Suzan Oelofse from the CSIR about plastic bag alternatives and recycling our waste. In Unscience, find...
by rendani | Aug 29, 2017 | News, The Science Inside
It’s the Wits University Disability Awareness Week. We look at the assistive technology that helps blind students at universities by speaking to Wits assistive technologist Andrew Sam. Then Willem van der Walt from the CSIR shows us the computer he developed for...
