Episodes 10
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Moderate
Since Sep 2023
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Quarterly
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Episodic
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Catch up with some of the cutting edge science from the Cambridge University Press Prisms suite of open access science

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Recent Episodes

Insect extinctions, and AI shot in the arm for drug design

Jun 05, 2025 37m

In episode 10 of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast, the shocking finding that as many as 2 invertebrate species are going extinct each week in Australia: what can be done? Also, the shot in the arm that…

What climate change does to kelp forests

Apr 03, 2025 32m

In this episode, how climate change impacts kelp forests, selecting for less animal-friendly variants, refining AI models for better water infrastructure design, classifying extinct marine megafauna…

Personalised medicine, droughts, and dryland research

Dec 24, 2024 31m

Personalised medicine and gene screens for disease, why dinosaurs disappeared, planning for droughts, and new vistas in the drylands arena... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme…

Future cancer care, and the cost of large animal extinction

Oct 25, 2024 36m

In this episode, why approaches to cancer care need a pro-active approach in future, the opportunities arising for the cancer vaccine space, competency-based medical training, the environmental costs…

Microbiomes control blood pressure, and the cost of water

Jul 31, 2024 36m

This month, evidence that the microbiome is controlling blood pressure - so will we treat hypertension with probiotics in future? Also, plastic is everywhere and an urgent environmental threat, but…

Making waves about coastline conservation, and plastic waste

Feb 14, 2024 35m

This month the connections that human inhabitants have to the coast, why we're still in the middle of a worsening extinction crisis despite international laws and treaties designed to protect nature,…

Plant mass extinctions, and getting mental health help

Nov 30, 2023 33m

In this episode, delivering mental health help in the community, what seabirds can reveal about ocean plastic pollution, how plants are affected by mass extinction events, involving indigenous people…

Recycled plastics pollute food, and the value of water

Nov 10, 2023 37m

Better awareness of the precious resource that is water, getting a grip on coastal ecosystems and the impact of pollution, why recycled plastics are a threat for food packaging and kitchen utensils,…

Wildlife Trade Extinctions and 21st Century Psychology

Oct 20, 2023 37m

This time we hear how many species are being driven to extinction by human trade, why clinical psychology needs an update for the 21st Century, how non-specialists can help to plug the gap in mental…

Newborn Genomics and Mass Extinctions

Sep 30, 2023 27m

This is the launch episode of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast series, showcasing cutting-edge science from Cambridge University Press. In this edition, Chris Smith asks if we should be sequencing the…

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