Royal Society Publishing Podcast
1) Do dolphins think non-linearly?
Tim Leighton talks about his paper in Proceedings A in which they use nonlinear mathematical functions to process the echoes of dolphin-like pulses from targets immersed in bubble clouds successfully ...Show More
2) The Turing legacy
In celebration of Alan Turing's centenary, the Royal Society has published two special issues "The foundations of computation, physics and mentality: the Turing legacy" by S Barry Cooper and Samson Ab...Show More
3) The social network and communicative complexity in animals
Philosophical Transactions B has published a theme issue on "The social network and communicative complexity in animals" which addresses the hypothesis that an important factor influencing the complex...Show More
4) Metacognition
Metacognition can be defined as thinking about thinking and Philosophical Transactions B has just published an issue highlighting the advances being made in research to measure and quantify metacognit...Show More
5) APC tumour suppressor
Most cases of colorectal cancer are linked to mutational inactivation of the Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumour suppressor. In this podcast Mariann Bienz discusses her Open Biology paper 'The Ade...Show More
6) Models in Palaeontology
In this podcast Paul Barrett and Andrew Smith talk about a Special Feature in Biology letters they have guest-edited which brings together a series of papers that showcase how modelling the past is be...Show More
7) The Large Hadron Collider Project
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is opening the way for the search for new phenomena. The Philosophical Transactions A issue "Physics at the High Energy Frontier - The Large Hadron Collider Project" br...Show More
8) Introducing Open Biology
The Royal Society has launched a new journal, Open Biology, which is a fast, open access journal covering biology at the molecular and cellular level. This selective, online journal will publish origi...Show More
9) Brood Parasitism in Greater Honeyguides
The brood parasitic behaviour of the commoon cuckoo is well known, with observations by Edward Jenner back in the 1780s having been publishing in Philosophical Transactions. The African greater honeyg...Show More
10) The Complexity of Sleep
Philosophical Transactions A has published a theme issue The Complexity of Sleep, which looks at the application of complexity science to studying the complex dynamics of the sleeping brain is a fast....Show More