Weekend Variety Wireless With Graeme Hill On Radiolive

Science Report with Physicist and author of Silencing Science, Shaun Hendy. The science behind the meth myth, how long does a neutron live and how the spread of information is ratcheted in favour of the flash universities. Also, Did you know it was now possible for you to explore exoplanets? NASA has set up a data base where you can flick through a collection of artistic expressions of exoplanets. Their surfaces are based on what would be expected to appear from current knowledge. Astronomer Dr Grant Christie joins Graeme Hill to talk the latest in astronomy. This week the two also deepen their discussion around the back-to-front asteroid. This animation shows two clumps of Apollos co-orbiting with Jupiter as well as the contrasting rarity in our solar system that goes against the grain. Gaia Satellite is making ultra-precise measurements of the motion of the stars around the sun. Theorists can now calculate the stars behaviour. Predictions can currently be made five million years into the future and th