Take away Science - Audio
From robot surgery to nation-wide hunts for stripy snails via Michael Faraday, The Open University's new podcast series caters to all tastes.
Take-Away Science is about anything and everything interesting in science.
Featuring interviews with practising scientists at the cutting edge of research, television science presenters and students starting out on their degrees, the OU Science Faculty bring their unique perspective on science today to you with each episode. Each interview is recorded by OU staff and the podcast is hosted by Rough Science's Dr Mike Bullivant.
These podcasts are brought to you by The Open University's BLAST! project: http://blast.open.ac.uk
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2010
Research Stories
In this podcast we find out about fascinating research projects throughout the UK. Patricia Ragazzon chats to researchers from the University of Nottingham about innovations in nanotubes and David Sm…
00:20:16 |
Fri 12 Dec 2008
It's Elementary: A Chemist's View
This podcast explores life at The Open University's Department of Chemistry and Analytical Sciences. We meet Dr Sotiris Missalidis, whose research into chemistry has contributed to one of our new cou…
00:16:10 |
Fri 12 Dec 2008
Life sciences: Evolution in snails, the perils of looking after snakes and scientists on television
In this podcast we meet a herpetologist, or snake expert, from Wales and discuss genetic coding in snakes and research developments. We also meet David Robinson, a biologist and Senior Lecturer at th…
00:20:57 |
Thu 27 Nov 2008
Science perspectives: from an OU student, to outreach and cutting-edge research
In this podcast, we meet Professor Tom Lane, President-elect of the American Chemical Society and discuss why scientists should get involved with outreach. We return to The Open University's Dr Mark …
00:22:40 |
Mon 10 Nov 2008
Earth Science Rocks!
In this earth science themed programme, Dr Sarah Davies delve into a fantastic project - Enabling Remote Activity - which helps mobility-impaired students take part in field work. Wes Fraser also cha…
00:23:18 |
Tue 28 Oct 2008
Science: from the lab to Second Life and across the world
We talk to Sue Stocklmayer from the Australian National University about the joys and pitfalls of international science communication; and to Rough Science's Dr Jonathan Hare about his research into …
00:25:04 |
Tue 07 Oct 2008
Science in Second Life, using robots in surgery and Walking with Robots
Warning: this Take-Away Science episode involves more than a hint of technology. We chat to Becca Wilson and Oliver Butters about their virtual space science project with school students. We also m…
00:25:11 |
Fri 26 Sep 2008
The Large Hadron Collider, the moon and some space scientists' heroes of science
In this physics and astronomy episode we chat to Dr Tara Shears just before the LHC was switched on in September 2008; catch up with two space scientists to find out about their heroes of science; an…
00:17:54 |
Mon 22 Sep 2008
Toxicology, more about life on Mars and children's author Philip Ardagh
We meet children’s author Philip Ardagh for a chat; find out more about Mars and discovering life on Earth in some of the most unlikely places; and we catch up with an Open University graduateto lear…
00:19:16 |
Mon 15 Sep 2008
Life on Mars, controlling disease and 3D printers
We discuss life on Mars with Open University scientists; getting into science and the future of disease control with epidemiologists at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition; and find out about incredi…
00:18:55 |
Mon 15 Sep 2008
Women in science today, a latter-day heroine and forensic science
In this podcast we catch up with Professor Kathy Sykes at the 2008 Cheltenham Science Festival and find out about her heroine of science; we meet Dr Christine Heading, an OU Associate Lecturer, who h…
00:19:08 |
Mon 18 Aug 2008
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