Science

15 Sep 09

Discover if scientists think there was a time before time began, and hear about new research into Alzheimer's disease in the latest Inside Oxford Science podcast. 

Inside Oxford Science is presented by Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics and Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and is a regular series of audio podcasts for iTunesU and www.ox.ac.uk The series gives anyone the chance to listen to Oxford University scientists discussing the latest scientific discoveries and stories.

In the fourth edition cosmologist Professor Pedro Ferreira explores the latest thinking about what might have existed before the Big Bang, taking in Phoenix universes, string theory and what we mean by calling time the fourth dimension along the way.

Inside Oxford Science is presented by Professor Marcus du Sautoy

Then press officer and science communicator Dr Jonathan Wood highlights new Oxford research which has revealed that brain scans of young people with a gene associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer's show changes in brain function decades before any symptoms might occur.

What does the gene do and what does this mean? Listen and find out more...

Read more about this podcast in Inside Oxford Science Extra on the Oxford Science Blog.

Inside Oxford Science #4