Episodes

  • Shark Magnets, Pink Drinks and the greatest invention of all time!
    May 23 2021

    This episode included the following guests…

    • Dr Julia Stern – University of Gottingen, Germany
    • Brian Keller at Florida State University, founder of the Save our Seas Foundation
    • Grayson Mullen, University of California
    • Professor Yossi Yovel, Tel-Aviv University
    • Dr Sanjoy Deb, Researcher at the University of Westminster
    • Luke Maher, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
    • Professor Danielle George, President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology


    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    17 mins
  • Warp Drive becomes reality and the pastry that cures cancer
    May 16 2021

    This episode included the following guests…

    • Gianni Martire, Researcher at the advanced propulsion laboratory at Applied Physics
    • Tobias Baer, a researcher in the University of Cambridge's Department of Psychology
    • Dr Lukas Wolf, researcher at the Department of Psychology at Bath
    • Tim Olds, professor of behavioural epidemiology at the University of South Australia
    • Mike Benton, professor at the University of Bristol
    • Bernd Nowack, researcher at Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories
    • Hidenori Mizuno of Brain Co.,Ltd


    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production, written and presented by Paul Connolly.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    16 mins
  • Anaesthetic terror, Aggressive dogs, horned crocs and the science of Love Actually
    May 9 2021

    This episode included the following guests…

    • Keyvan Sarkhosh, study leader and first author
    • Salla Mikkola, doctoral researcher from the University of Helsinki
    • Earl Miller, Picower Institute at MIT Professor of Neuroscience and co-senior author
    • Daniel Adan Lopez, Ph.D. candidate in the Epidemiology program at the University of Rochester Medical Center
    • Evon Hekkala, lead author, associate professor at Fordham University and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History
    • Mark Greaves, Senior Production Consultant at Ordnance Survey

    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production, written and presented by Paul Connolly.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    19 mins
  • Why you're always hungry, the Pink Supermoon, billions of T-Rex and a tribute to Michael Collins RIP
    May 2 2021

    This episode included the following guests…

    • Micheal Kueppers – ESA’s Hera Mission
    • Rohan Naidu – Harvard University
    • Vincent Humphry – Climate Scientists at the University of Zurich
    • Professor Charles Marshall – Integrative Biology at the University of California
    • Dr Sarah Berry – nutritional scientist at King’s College
    • Patricia Skelton - astronomy Education Officer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
    • Michael Collins (RIP)

    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production, written and presented by Paul Connolly.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    20 mins
  • Loyal Dolphins, Astronauts in a pandemic & the hunt for Moon Trees
    Apr 25 2021

    This episode included the following guests…

    • Thomas Pesquet is a European Space Agency astronaut - @Thom_astro
    • Josh Ravich, Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Mechanical Engineering Lead and NASA Systems Engineer, Farah Alibah - @farahalibay
    • Dr Richard Weller, consultant dermatologist and Reader at the University of Edinburgh - @EdinUni_MeetCIR
    • Amanda Baughan, doctoral student at the University of Washington- @amanda_baughan
    • Dr Stephanie King Senior Lecturer from Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences
    • Qi Cao, PhD, Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine - @cao_qi
    • Steve Miller, Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) - @royalastrosoc

    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production, written and presented by Paul Connolly.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    17 mins
  • Exploding volcanoes, The Doomsday Glacier and Metorites in Miami
    Apr 17 2021

    This episode included the following guests…


    • Holger Krag, head of European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office.
    • Dr Jazmin Scarlett, social and historical vulcanologist
    • Marcell Cadney, University of California, Riverside
    • Isao Shitanda Associate Professor from Tokyo University of Science in Japan
    • Anna Wahlin, professor of physical Oceanography at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
    • Dr. Kimberly Arcand, visualization scientist for NASA's Chandra X ray observatory
    • Jay O’Brien, reporter at CBS 12 news in West Palm Beach Florida



    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production, written and presented by Paul Connolly.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    22 mins
  • Hallucinating mice, Black Hole Suns and Much ado about Muons...
    Apr 11 2021

    This episode included the following guests…

    • Michael Levin, Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
    • Adam Cabbage. Professor of neuroscience and psychiatry - Washington University, St. Louis
    • Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Professor of psychology and department head at East Tennessee State University
    • Christopher Kuhn, Supervisor at the Technical University of Munich
    • Associate Professor Charlie Huveneers, Shark Scientist
    • James Paynter, University of Melbourne
    • Dr Harry Cliff, Particle physicist at the University of Cambridge

    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production, written and presented by Paul Connolly.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    18 mins
  • Asteroid Alert, Space Wine, Machines that read minds, the Perils of harsh Parenting and Croc-o-dolphins...
    Apr 4 2021

    This episode included the following guests…

    · Detlef Koschny, ESA Planetary Missions Division,

    · Nicolas Gaume – Founder and CEO of Space Cargo Unlimited

    · Jarno Tuominen, Senior Researcher, University of Turku

    · Dr Sumner Norman, a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech

    · Thomas L. Stubbs - Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bristol

    · Dr Sabrina Suffren, University of Quebec

    · Professor Chung-Pei Ma, University of California, Berkeley.

    The Science 7 is a weekly podcast that gets you up to speed on the biggest stories in Science every week.

    It’s published every Sunday and is a Daft Doris Production, written and presented by Paul Connolly.

    It’s part of the Smart 7 podcast family, which include The Smart 7, The Smart 7 Ireland Edition and The Sport 7…

    Contact us at www.thesmart7.com or on twitter @thesmart7pod

    Please do like and follow and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a favourable review.


    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Show More Show Less
    21 mins