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May 8, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks |James Fodor |Andreessen Horowitz
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
Volcanoes are pretty amazing! But how do they work on other planets? Take Mars – it has the largest volcano in the solar system! But volcanologist Tamsin Mather reveals that the red planet is now considered geologically dead, with no volcanic activity for around 500 million years. How do we know how this volcano formed then? Well, space missions have put probes and landers on Mars’ surface, providing evidence of a long lost hot spot beneath the surface. What about the rest of the solar system?
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
We are out in the wild today talking to bees!In this behind the scenes episode, we visited Dr Rachel Parkinson’s bee recording studio to see insect neuroscience research in action. You might know that honeybees communicate with each other using the waggle dance, a minute choreography that shows other bees the way to the flower buffet. But little is known about how bumblebees communicate.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
Cats are pretty adorable! Those big eyes, fluffy paws and cheeky personalities mean that most people find felines cute. But what is the science behind this reaction? Neuroscientist Professor Morten Kringelbach reveals how special technology can track what happens to signals in the brain in response to sounds and images of babies and small animals. In just a thousandth of a second, our brain decides that something is cute.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks |Markus Voelter |Nora Ludewig
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
Have you ever considered when kissing first started? Who, or what, first decided that this was a good way to show affection? Ancient historian, Troels Pank Arbøll, and hedgehog researcher, Sophie Lund Rasmussen, joined forces to attempt to find an answer. Cuneiform scripts, which are the world’s oldest written text, have the first mention of romantic kissing in a mythological narrative dating back to 2500 BCE. But animals can also help us to answer this question.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
How do we battle the energy use and soaring costs required to keep our homes warm? We spoke to Dr Brenda Boardman from the Environmental Change Institute about the best ways to keep out the winter chill. Did you know that draughts not only let cold air in, but they also push the warm out of your home? And that sitting or sleeping next to external walls can make you colder?
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
If you are curious about how your brain really works this is the podcast for you! Hosted by physician Dr. Ginger Campbell (2022 Podcast Hall of Fame) from 2006-2023, Brain Science explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brain makes us human. It features conversations with leading scientists and philosophers and is "the podcast for everyone who has a brain" because Dr. Campbell makes neuroscience accessible to listeners of all backgrounds. Over 10 ...
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
player.fm | Fiona Jones |Oxford Sparks
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