Ergebnis für "Airborn" in Wissenschaft & Technik

In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. We travel to the tops of mountain glaciers, where Louis Pasteur caught germs from the air, and follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds, where they conducted groundbreaking experiments.

In Air-borne, Carl Zimmer, Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh and science columnist for The New York Times, traces the history and pre-history of the young science of aerobiology, from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of microbes under his hand-made microscopes in the seventeenth century to Darwin’s revelation, while aboard the Beagle in the middle of the Atlantic, that this invisible life can soar across the planet – he found sixty-seven different North African species that had travelled thousands of miles from the Sahara.

In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes listeners into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping's remarkable history, and explains why their services are more essential than ever before.

In this educational podcast series, our host Clare Taylor talks with the members and partners of ESWI, the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza about their work with acute respiratory viruses such as influenza, sars-CoV-2 and RSV. Clare unearths career choices and paths discovering what brought these distinguished members to become experts in their respective fields. As listeners, we get acquainted with the fascinating world of viruses while she asks thought-provoking questions on issues ranging from how to keep viruses at bay, how vaccines work, why vaccination is important to ...

In deze podcast hoor en leer je alles over de oceaan: van de geheimzinnige diepzee tot de bevroren poolzee, met de meest wonderbaarlijke levensvormen. Ontdek welke dieren leven in de oceaan en hoe deze magische onderwaterwereld cruciaal is voor ál het leven op onze planeet. Freek Vonk neemt je mee op expeditie naar de verste en diepste uithoeken van de oceaan, waar je onder andere leert over oceaanverzuring en vervuiling van de oceaan. Zet je koptelefoon op en dompel je onder in een kleurrijk koraalrif, hoor hoe blauwe vinvissen met elkaar communiceren en daal samen met Freek kilometers af ...