This week on Science Weekly with Ian Sample we meet science writer and broadcaster Gaia Vince to discuss the profound issues about the human-shaped future of planet Earth raised in her new book Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made.
In her travels she also witnessed ingenious but possibly doomed efforts to offset the worst effects of climate change, including whitewashing a mountain in Peru, creating artificial glaciers in Ladakh and trying to hold back the ocean in the Maldives.
Ian is joined by Nicola Davis, commissioning editor of the Observer Tech Monthly, to congratulate the winner of the £10m Longitude Prize 2014 – antibiotics – and the new millionaire mathematicians created by the Breakthrough prize.
Also, they analyse the pros and cons of taking low-dose aspirin, as new research suggests it may reduce the risk of pancreatic.
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