Welcome to the first Science Weekly of 2008. Alok Jha and the team are on hand to gaze into their quasi-mystical balls and speculate on what will be the biggest scientific happenings over the next 12 months
Ian Sample explains the intricacies of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - will CERN discover a whole new realm of physics when, eventually, it turns on its new toy? Ian is also on hand to discuss synthetic biology. What exactly is it, and will it come alive in 2008?
Elsewhere in the show, Bobbie Johnson (he of the Tech Weekly podcast) gets excited about a new space race and a supercomputer called HECToR. And Guardian environment correspondent David Adam ruminates on whether, with a new president at the helm in the US, international climate change agreements will finally be enacted there.
Finally, Jonny Berliner, the Science Weekly troubadour, gets out his guitar and kazoo to give us his thoughts on the future.
