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Richard Turner participating in \x-treme Everest\, an initiative to understand how the body tolerates low oxygen conditions.

Xtreme Everest

... to very high up in the air whilst standing on land! Richard turner is a BBC journalist who volunteered to be part of ... London's Xtreme Everest project. Chris -   So then Richard, why were you up Everest? Richard -   I heard about ...

Ear by Travis Isaacs

How we hear

... hear and understand sounds, but sometimes they go wrong. Richard Turner, from the University of Cambridge, works on developing ... aids, so he's an expert on the ear and how it works... Richard -   Okay, so I'm going to tell you about the three ...

A neurone

How one man is copying the brain

... one is to copy how our senses made sense of the world and Richard Turner is focusing on hearing. This has proven tricky though, as he explained to Graihagh Jackson... Richard - Well simply put the brain is the most complicated ...

Willow tree

A potted guide to medicines

... the gardens at Madingley Hall, with the head gardener Richard Gant, for a potted guide to drugs... Richard - We call this the medicinal border which we’ve ... But Cambridge has a very strong record because William Turner, who published the first herbal, was a fellow of ...

Clouds and Lightning

Quiet AI revolution taking weather forecasting by storm

... And - crucially - will it lead to more accurate forecasts? Richard Turner is a professor of machine learning at the University ... when it’s finally not going to rain all over the UK… Richard - The traditional approach to weather forecasting ...