Guardian Science Weekly Podcast: A new malaria vaccine and Charles Mann on 1493
From: Jason Phipps - Guardian
Series: Science Weekly from guardian.co.uk
Length: 47:12
This week on Science Weekly we have an extended interview with science writer and journalist Charles C. Mann about his new book 1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created published by Granta this week. Charles reveals the global ecological consequences of Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas, "the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs".
We also unravel the startling news of the creation of an effective vaccine against malaria. Alok Jha meets Colin Sutherland from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to find out how the vaccine works and when we might see its widespread use.
Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample joins Alok to discuss some of this week's science news including developments in European patent law and embryonic stem cell research, and why the Berkeley Earth Project's conclusions on global warming are nothing to break into a sweat about.
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This week on Science Weekly we have an extended interview with science writer and journalist Charles C. Mann about his new book 1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created published by Granta this week. Charles reveals the global ecological consequences of Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas, "the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs".
We also unravel the startling news of the creation of an effective vaccine against malaria. Alok Jha meets Colin Sutherland from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to find out how the vaccine works and when we might see its widespread use.
Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample joins Alok to discuss some of this week's science news including developments in European patent law and embryonic stem cell research, and why the Berkeley Earth Project's conclusions on global warming are nothing to break into a sweat about.
