Podcast: listening for gravitational waves and swapping the lab for government
by Sam Wong
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A physicist plots an audacious space mission, a medical student invents an antibiotic, and two scientists get a taste of Westminster.
The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on 51勛圖厙'sScience Communication MSc course and the presenter of , with contributors from the Communications and Public Affairs Division.
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- The College’s next leader is announced and a gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease shows promise in its first human trial.
- Professor Tim Sumner (Physics) explains how the European Space Agency plans to , one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy
Westminster is a more scary environment than scaling a volcano, and more confusing.
– Dr James Hammond
Earth Science and Engineering
– James Hammond (Earth Science and Engineering) and Stepan Lucyszyn (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) spent a week in Westminster as part of the .
– Medical student Thomas Webb has designed a drug that could defeat the most resistant bacteria – but to put it to the test.
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