Sam Pollock puts listeners' questions to a panel of scientists in the first of a new series of programmes
Panel:
Robert Boyd , Harry Collier
Peter Sykes , G. P. Wells
What has been in the papers recently? Russian biologists sacked: cosmic rays interrupt radio again: a new flat TV tube: jet planes approach the heat barrier: the path of the Earth's first artificial satellite.
More information about such events, and what scientists themselves think about them, will be heard in the answers given to questions about science, technology, and so on, sent in by listeners.