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Podcast Episode 3 | Alexander von Humboldt, a scientist you’ve never heard of

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On our history podcast we feature a very influential scientist that you may never have heard of Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt penguin is named after him.

Podcast Episode 2 | Turning CO2 into rocks

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Turning carbon emissions into rocks. How CarbFix utilises the ability to capture CO2 emissions and turns them into subsurface carbonate mineral.

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Fantastic Women Series – Mary Anning, the original fossil hunter

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Mary Anning was the original fossil hunter, fossil dealer and most importantly palaeontologist, who became famous for her important finds from Lyme Regis.

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Fantastic Women Series – Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin

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Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin was an astronomer, who literally discovered what the universe is made of. She was one of the Harvard Computers.

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Denisovans and extinct sub-Saharan ghost populations

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Anthropology Blog - It seems there were three Denisovan lineages and that we may have interbred with an extinct ghost African basal population.