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From batteries to distant worlds

From batteries to distant worlds

FromScience In Action


From batteries to distant worlds

FromScience In Action

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Oct 10, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Nobel prizes this week went to a range of discoveries that you might be familiar with, in fact you might be using one of them right now – the lithium ion battery. The scientists credited with its Invention got the chemistry prize. And the tantalising prospect of life on other planets plays into the physics prize win.

And we also see what salamanders have to offer in the treatment of arthritis


(Picture: Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-452b and its parent star Kepler-452. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/Science Photo Library)

Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Julian Siddle
Released:
Oct 10, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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The BBC brings you all the week's science news.