This week on the show Kevin Fong meets New Scientist editor-in-chief Jeremy Webb to discuss the magazine's compendium of articles on the theme of nothing. Entitled, appropriately enough, Nothing, the book probes everything from dark matter and consciousness to ditchwater and the digestive tract of snakes.
Kevin is sitting in for Alok Jha, who is in the Southern Ocean with the 2013 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Click here to follow Alok's Antarctica Live blog.
Kevin is joined by Observer Tech Monthly commissioning editor Nicola Davis and Kerri Smith from Nature magazine (presenter of the very fine Nature podcasts) to take a look at the past week's science news, including new research into traumatic brain injuries, the role of genetics in educational achievement, and why life on the ocean was not easy for the ancient flying reptile, the pterosaur.
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