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18/12/2012

Radio Wales' weekly exploration of science and technology. This week, Adam Walton and three guests review the big science stories of 2012.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Dec 2012 06:30

Review of the Year 2012

This week Adam and guests look back over the major science stories of 2012. And it’s been an eventful year with a robot on Mars, a transit of Venus and the discovery of the God Particle. Joining Adam to review a year in science are:

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Space scientist and one of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sky at Night team, Dr. Chris North from Cardiff University. Chris’s top stories of 2012 were the successful landing of the on Mars and the which occurred in June;

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Aberystwyth University aquatic biologist Dr. Pippa Moore. Pippa’s science story is climate change and its relation to the year’s events. Pippa also chooses CERN’sÌýdiscovery of a particle consistent with the long-trumpeted ‘God particle’, the ;

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Dr. Tom Crick, senior lecturer in computer science at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His favourite stories are the success of the , an affordable computer which aims to reignite schoolchildren’s interest in programming, and the launch back in March of the new .

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  • Tue 18 Dec 2012 18:30
  • Sun 23 Dec 2012 06:30

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