This episode explores new research, which has found that rainforest protection reduces the number of respiratory diseases. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Rainforest’ by Teresa Mei Chuc here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has observed warm ocean water moving beneath the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica, where it contributes to ice melting. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Ice' by Gail Mazur here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that bats use an acoustic cognitive map for navigation. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Bats' by Luke Hathaway here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that human actions cause insect colour change. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Insect’ by Annie Finch here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that tropical mammals react to changes in lunar light. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Moonlight’ by Paul Verlaine here.   --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Near-Earth Object’ by John Shoptaw here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that drier winter habitat impacts songbirds’ ability to survive migration. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Migration’ by Ira Sadoff here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that burying wood in the right environmental conditions can stop its decomposition and help curb carbon dioxide emissions. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Wood’ by Richard Brautigan here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that the long-range transport of dust enhances oceanic life. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Dust’ by Dorianne Laux here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that flowers use adjustable petal designs to attract pollinators. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Flowers’ by Wendy Videlock here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that excessive light pollution may increase risk of Alzheimer's. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read “Alzheimer’s” by William J. Harris here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has observed a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Universe’ by Steven Schnur here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that meteor showers shed light on where comets formed in the early solar system. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Meteorite’ by Randall Jarrell here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research which has found that underground acoustics amplify soil health. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘This Soil’ by Alice Corbin Henderson here.   --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that nature is at risk in the hunt for the perfect selfie. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie’ by Becca Klaver here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has studied how the rising earth in Antarctica will impact future sea level rise. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica’ by Bernadette Mayer here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has investigated the iridescent evolution of birds. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Birdsong' by Joanie Mackowski here.   --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that even 10 minutes of nature exposure is likely to yield benefits for adults with mental illness. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Wildlife Management III’ by James Galvin here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that unprecedented warming threatens earth’s lakes and their ecosystems. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Lake Cycle’ by Jessica Nelson North here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that painting roofs white is effective at cooling cities at scale. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Heat' by John Gould Fletcher here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that meteorite impact rate on Mars can help date planetary surfaces. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Meteorite’ by Randall Jarrell here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that dense, swirling winds help supermassive black holes grow. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Effects’ by Nick Laird here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that restored rat-free islands could support hundreds of thousands more breeding seabirds --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Baiting Bush Rats’ by Anthony Lawrence here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has identified the gene that enhances some of the properties of lavender. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read  'Lavender' by Mary Enslow here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that mussels downstream of wastewater treatment plants contain radium. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Merrymakers in a Mussel Shell’ by Holly Corfield Carr here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has used wobbling stars to find new exoplanets. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘In the Planetarium’ by James Doyle here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has investigated how heatwaves are affecting Arctic phytoplankton. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Invitation’ by Aimee Nezhukumatathil here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Snowfall' by Ravi Shankar here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that a magnetic field collapse may have triggered the emergence of animals on Earth. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Moon’s Magnetic Field Once Came from an Asteroid’ by Rebecca Morgan Frank here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that women and shepherds historically reduced wildfire risk in Central Italy. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Leaves’ by Ursula K. Le Guin here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that toxic chemicals from microplastics can be absorbed through skin. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Plastic: A Personal History’ by Elizabeth Bradfield here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that Africa’s flamingos are threatened by rising lake levels. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Flamingo Watching’ by Kay Ryan here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that four in five bird species cannot tolerate intense human pressures. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Birds’ by Linda Pastan here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that common water pollutants cause heart damage in fish. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Water Devil’ by Jamaal May here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that signs of life could be detectable in single ice grains that are emitted from extraterrestrial moons. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Ten Moons’ by Sasha Dugdale here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth   

This episode explores new research, which has used ancient tree rings to reconstruct the climate records of North China. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Trees’ by Mark Haddon here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that fishing for oil and meat drives deepwater shark and ray decline. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Sharks at the New York Aquarium’ by Charles Martin here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that deforestation exacerbates the risk of malaria for the most vulnerable children. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Mosquito Music’ by Philip Gross here --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that cloud clustering causes more extreme rain. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read  'Clouds' by Caroline Forché here.   --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has looked to neutron stars to reduce nuclear waste. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Near the Desert Test Sites (Palm Desert, California)’ by Sherod Santos here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has detected the faint light of stellar corpses beside predator stars. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Stars’ by Marjorie Pickthall here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that climate change likely triggered pandemics in antiquity. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Return to Rome' by Stanley Moss here.   --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found confirmation of an ancient lake on Mars. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Here’s Mars’ by William H. Dickey here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that Alpine glaciers will lose at least a third of their volume by 2050. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Exit Glacier’ by Peggy Shumaker here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has discovered an Earth-sized planet in ‘our solar backyard’. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'The Planet' by Josephine Jacobsen here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has revealed the mysterious missing component in the clouds of Venus. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Venus’ By D. Nurkse here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that particulate matter affects both the molecular functions and physical shape of lung cells. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'The Orange Alert' by Douglas Kearney here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth 

This episode explores new research, which has found that vulnerable populations face flood risk in most African countries. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Drought' by Tsitsi Ella Jaji here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   X: @samillingworth