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2018-01-10

  The Scottish Wildcat

Facing imminent extinction the Scottish Wildcat used to to be found widely across the country. Today the most optimistic population count suggests there are around 315 individual wildcats left and they are only in the north of Scotland. Experts have su... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2018-01-03

  Child Tissue Donation

Would you, could you or should you donate your body to science? That might be a hard enough question to answer but what about donating your children's tissue to research after their death. This is exactly the situation Sarah Gray and her husband found ... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-12-27

  Snow and Ice

An intricate yet delicate six sided crystal floats down to earth. It becomes powerful enough to carve our landscape. It is cold enough to kill us and if it becomes unstable it can move at hundreds of miles per hour. All this, yet that crystal is compos... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-12-20

  The Adolescent Brain

Until recently, it was thought that our brains were fully developed by early childhood. Driven by the assumption that brain growth was pretty much complete by the time a child began school, scientists believed for years that the adolescent brain was ... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-04-05

  Professor Lorna Dawson

A farmer's daughter from Angus, soil has been in Professor Lorna Dawson's family for generations. She just didn't expect her relationship with soil to lead her into a scientific career of solving crime. Now Principal Soil Scientist at the James Hutton ... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-03-28

  Professor Vincent Janik

Underneath the waves of Scotland's seas there is a hive of communication going on. Clicks, shrieks, calls and whistles that can be heard for over 15kms. They are highly developed forms of communication, some evidence even shows local dialects among our... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-03-21

  Fracking

Fracking doesn't just open up rocks, it divides all kinds of communities across Scotland. In January 2015 the Scottish Government announced a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing taking place in Scotland, putting in place ban on fracking shale rock for ... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-03-14

  The Moon

We've been fascinated by it for thousands of years. It was the target of a 20th century technological arms race that would put the first humans in space and on extra-terrestrial soil, sparking exponential advances in spaceflight. Man got there, then ... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-03-07

  Professor Richard Morris

When Richard Morris was a physics student he volunteered to be a subject in a psychology experiment. It triggered a fascination with the brain that led to him become one of the world's leading neuroscientists. His lifetime work has focused on memory ... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2017-02-28

  Soundscape Ecology

The sound of the world around us provides us with key indicators to the health of our planet. How those sounds change over time and in space can show how the well-being of earth is changing, both naturally and through man's impact. Soundscape ecology... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author