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The Impact of Higgs Boson Discovery

Physicist Jonathan Butterworth on the predictions of the Standard Model, new excitement about physics and future experiments beyond the Standard Model

Laws of Growth and Natural Selection

Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on adaptive radiation, Darwin's finches and allopatric speciation

Meteorologist Chris Brierley on the Southern Oscillation, the background state of the Pacific Ocean and why it’s so hard to model El Niño

Music and Brain

Psychologist Lauren Stewart on congenital amusia, earworms and how music affects mental and physical health

Superfluidity of Light

Physicist Marzena Szymanska on the properties of photons, fluids of light and whether it’s possible to make a solid light

Animals and Human Communication

Linguist David Adger on sound processing in animals, bonobo Kanzi and the nature of linguistic differences between animals and humans

Cultural Evolution of Altruism

Philosopher Jonathan Birch on memes, cultural evolution and the difference in altruistic behaviour between humans and chimpanzees

The Role of Science in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the art market, the ‘American Leonardo’ and why connoisseurship doesn't work in a court of law

Glaciology and Climate Change

Glaciologist Martin Siegert on the history of glacial theory, lake Vostok research and what ice tells us about the Earth’s climate in the past

Earth Observations

Physicist David Southwood on the exploration of the oceans, Earth meteorology and how can we observe climate change from space

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