Welcome back, you wonderful insightful creatures!Guess what! Here is another VERY SPECIAL episode! The third and last of our 3-episode miniseries made in collaboration with Cochrane, the international charitable organization… Read More »TSB-Cochrane series Ep3 – How should we assess scientific information?-w/ Eleanna, Katja & Jack Nunn
Welcome back, you sciency science-lovers!This is another VERY SPECIAL episode! The seconf of out 3-episode miniseries made in collaboration with Cochrane, the international charitable organization promoting evidence-informed health decision-making, by… Read More »TSB-Cochrane series Ep2 – Systematic reviews -w/ Giuliano, Elmo & Fiona Stewart
Welcome back, you sciency science-lovers!This is a VERY SPECIAL episode (I know… ALL our episodes are special, but this is even more special!)because it’s the first of a 3-episode miniseries… Read More »TSB-Cochrane series Ep1 – Cochrane reviews in times of COVID-19 – w/ Tomàs, Lea & John Lavis
Who would have thought that scientists can actually make a CT-Scan to see the “inner organs of the Earth”?
With seismic imaging scientists are looking inside the Earth trying to figure out what material is beneath our feet without digging a hole!
Lost in another ugly Facebook comments section? Online trolls and hate speech have unfortunately become commonplace encounters in our everyday lives. Our guest this week is the wonderful Annina Claesson (Twitter @AnninaClaesson, Instagram @thenannis), a grad student in Science Po in Paris and a freelance journalist and writer.
Welcome back to The Science Basement Podcast!
Yep, that’s right! We are back!
New team, new hosts, but same energy!
Our guest this week is Giuliano Didio, who is a PhD student at the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) of the University of Helsinki. He works on the magical world of brains! Did you know that the common saying that kids learn things faster is actually true? That’s because the infant brain is very “plastic”. Listen to this episode to learn what brain plasticity is and how to increase brain plasticity in adults!
Our guest this week is Markku Alho, who is a PhD student at Aalto University. He works on plasma modelling of solar wind interactions with several bodies in space. In this episode, we focus mostly on the Moon and how the solar wind “bombards” its surface, but we also talk for example about Venus, Mars, and comets!
According to 2020 estimates, breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer. Many cutting-edge strategies for treating breast cancers involve using the body’s natural… Read More »What Can the Immune System Do Against Breast Cancer?
The night before my flight, I couldn’t sleep. Tossing and turning in bed, I tried in vain to quiet my mind and get a few hours before leaving for the airport at the awful hour of 5 am.