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18/05/2013

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20/09/2012

Duration:
30 minutes
First broadcast:
Thursday 20 September 2012

Quentin Cooper asks how climate computer modelling is being used to determine future UK energy policy. Also on the programme how flies could help feed livestock; could growing protein on larvae be an ingenious solution to food shortages? And how bumblebees find their food in the wild - the first study to look at their behaviour outside the laboratory.

  • Bumblebee on Salvia flower

    Bumblebee on Salvia flower

    Credit: Dr Paul Donald

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