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Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: 19/08/2010

19/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 19/08/2010

Gareth Mitchell explores DIY on the International Space Station, hot cities and wolves.

Gareth Mitchell explores DIY on the International Space Station, why our cities are hotting up, monitoring the German wolf population and why we don't listen to scientists.

Gareth Mitchell presents this week's digest of science in and behind the headlines. In this edition; DIY on the International Space Station, will astronauts have to be doing more of this work in the future? It's getting 'Hot in the City' - the latest predictions suggest our cities could be 10 degrees warmer than the countryside by the end of the century, Gareth explores the possible solutions. Can you prove anything with science? Gareth talks to scientists about why we ignore any science we don't agree with and fail to act on anything we do believe in; and monitoring the wolf population in Germany.
The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz.

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