Big Science FM: The Mathematics of Donkey Kong
What is it about video games that makes them so addictive? Do we play these things not because they are easy but because they are hard? How hard are t...
Big Science: What's the Big Idea? From Resonance FM
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Big Science FM began as an experiment borne of a belief that the laws that govern the Universe are simple. Fantastical, astonishing, often unbelievable, but ultimately comprehensible to anyone who wants to understand. For an hour each week, Dr Ed Gerstner and guests explore the ideas that make the Universe tick.
Big Science FM: Medicating morality
Can racism be treated with heart drugs? A recent study suggests so. Does this mean that we can alter a person's moral values with drugs? And what othe...
Big Science FM: Teaching relativity to your dog
Dogs were the first sentient beings to venture into space. Yet, they know surprisingly little about physics. Chad Orzel, professor of physics at Union...
Big Science FM: Drug discovery crowdsourced
There are several ways that the public can contribute to the world of scientific exploration. We talk to David Baker and Chris Eibens how the networke...
Big Science FM: Newt's in space?
US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich declared that if he were elected president, he would build a manned base on the Moon by 2020. Does th...
Big Science FM: Have we found the Higgs, yet?
The Large Hadron Collider is working better than expected. And it's collected oodles of data. But have they found the Higgs, yet? We ask Davide Castel...
Big Science FM: Neuroscience in the sky with diamonds
Within ten years of the first synthesis of LSD in 1938, it was being used to treat a range of psychiatric conditions, including addiction, anxiety and...
Big Science FM: The trouble with neutrinos
In September, physicists announced results suggesting that beams of neutrinos were travelling from Switzerland to Italy at faster than the speed of li...
Big Science FM: How to build a brain
IBM's BlueGene supercomputer can carry out a similar number of operations per second as the brain of a rat. But while a rat's brain takes up a half a ...
Big Science FM: It's a Small World after all
In 1929, Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story suggesting that everyone is connected to everyone else by six or seven degrees of separation. In 1967, S...