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BBC Inside Science: US shutdown; Nobels; New climate science; Airport heart attack headlines

10/10/2013

US shutdown; Nobels; New climate science; Airport heart attack headlines

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, US shutdown; Nobels; New climate science; Airport heart attack headlines

With the US government on lockdown, Dr Adam Rutherford considers the risks for science.

American science is on lockdown. Dr Adam Rutherford considers the risks for US and international science projects, and reviews the annual Nobel Prize jamboree.

The US has shut down government science with potentially devastating results for American and international science projects. Many individual scientists are banned from talking but Matt Hourihan from the American Association for the Advancement of Science tells Dr Adam Rutherford about the serious consequences of the political squabble.

Roland Pease gives the low down on this week's Nobel Prizes including the much anticipated Physics gong for Peter Higgs' for his eponymous boson.

Marnie Chesterton reports on the new iCollections at the Natural History Museum where butterflies collected 150 years ago are shedding new light on the changing British climate. 

And after studies this week linked cardiovascular disease to aircraft noise, Kevin McConway, Professor of Applied Statistics at the Open University quantifies the risks of complex science being distorted by simple headlines.

Producer: Fiona Hill.

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