Brian Nosek discusses the reproducibility project, a crowdsourced collaboration of 270 authors, which attempted to repeat 100 published experimental and correlational psychological studies. When the results of the study were released in 2015 it was a shock to the scientific world: only 36% of the studies replicated, and of those that replicated, many of their results were smaller than those in the original papers. So is there only a problem in psychology or does it go much further? Find out more about Brian's work at the Center for Open Science: https://www.cos.io/

This is the story of a conservationist and explorer. Julian Bayliss discusses his expeditions to the isolated and untouched rainforests of east Africa, in an effort to document and protect their rich biodiversity. We talk new species discovered, mysterious artefacts, and being chased by warthogs and African bees. Find out more about Julian's work here: https://julianbayliss.co.uk/

Fiona Wood discusses the difficulties in treating burn injuries, and describes some of the new techniques that are being used today to reduce infection, scaring, pain, and long term complications. To find out more about the great work being done by Fiona and her collaborators: https://www.fionawoodfoundation.com/fiona-wood  

Michael Boyle Discusses the rise of advanced drone technology, and its impact on conflict. Find out more about Michael's research and publications here: https://www.fpri.org/contributor/michael-boyle/

Iain Kerr discusses the new threats facing whales, including boat strikes, bycatch, resource depletion, environment destruction, plastics, and pollution. He also discusses the possible solutions, including the use of remote controlled drones to do non-invasive sampling of whale health. Find out more about Iain's work at Ocean Alliance here: https://whale.org/

Robert Zubrin discusses the prospects of finding life on mars. Find out more about Robert's work at the Mars Society here: https://www.marssociety.org/news/2020/12/14/an-important-request-from-dr-robert-zubrin/

Lee Cronin discusses his work generating life in the laboratory, and the kind of processes that may have led to the origins of life on earth. Lee is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in the UK. You can find out more about the work being done in the Cronin Lab here: https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/

Robert Zubrin discusses establishing a new branch of human civilization on the Red Planet. Find out more about Robert's work at the Mars Society here: https://www.marssociety.org/news/2020/12/14/an-important-request-from-dr-robert-zubrin/ Find out more about mars direct here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/009457659290130B

Kelly Lambert Discusses the impacts that our experiences and environment might have on our mental resilience, stress, anxiety, and general cognitive function.  Find out more about Kelly's work at the University of Richmond: https://www.kellylambertlab.com/

Dave Goulson discusses the reasons for the decline in insect populations. Find out more about Dave Goulson's work at the University of Sussex at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/goulsonlab/ In 2006 Dave founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust,  which is a charity that aims to reverse the decline in the bumblebee population and can be found at https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/ Dave's Youtube can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbnBys2Hl1T26dzO_nbgbiw Dave is also the Author of a number of popular books which can be found at https://www.amazon.de/Dave-Goulson/e/B001HPXIWY%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share