The Cambridge Prisms Podcast
Catch up with the cutting edge discoveries from the Cambridge University Press Prisms suite of open access science
- Update frequency
- every 68 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Insect extinctions, and AI shot in the arm for drug design
In episode 10 of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast, the shocking finding that as many as 2 invertebrate species are going extinct each week in Australia: what can be done? Also, the shot in the arm that A…
00:37:11 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
What climate change does to kelp forests
In this episode, how climate change impacts kelp forests, selecting for less animal-friendly variants, refining AI models for better water infrastructure design, classifying extinct marine megafauna …
00:32:01 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
Personalised medicine, droughts, and dryland research
Personalised medicine and gene screens for disease, why dinosaurs disappeared, planning for droughts, and new vistas in the drylands arena... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme…
00:31:00 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
Future cancer care, and the cost of large animal extinction
In this episode, why approaches to cancer care need a pro-active approach in future, the opportunities arising for the cancer vaccine space, competency-based medical training, the environmental costs…
00:36:04 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Microbiomes control blood pressure, and the cost of water
This month, evidence that the microbiome is controlling blood pressure - so will we treat hypertension with probiotics in future? Also, plastic is everywhere and an urgent environmental threat, but i…
00:36:54 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Making waves about coastline conservation, and plastic waste
This month the connections that human inhabitants have to the coast, why we're still in the middle of a worsening extinction crisis despite international laws and treaties designed to protect nature,…
00:35:53 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Plant mass extinctions, and getting mental health help
In this episode, delivering mental health help in the community, what seabirds can reveal about ocean plastic pollution, how plants are affected by mass extinction events, involving indigenous people…
00:33:21 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Recycled plastics pollute food, and the value of water
Better awareness of the precious resource that is water, getting a grip on coastal ecosystems and the impact of pollution, why recycled plastics are a threat for food packaging and kitchen utensils, …
00:37:28 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Wildlife Trade Extinctions and 21st Century Psychology
This time we hear how many species are being driven to extinction by human trade, why clinical psychology needs an update for the 21st Century, how non-specialists can help to plug the gap in mental …
00:37:29 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Newborn Genomics and Mass Extinctions
This is the launch episode of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast series, showcasing cutting-edge science from Cambridge University Press. In this edition, Chris Smith asks if we should be sequencing the ge…
00:27:53 |
Sat 30 Sep 2023
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