The state of nature in the UK
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In this week\\u2019s episode Victoria Gill speaks to Nida al-Fulaij, conservation research manager at the People\\u2019s Trust for Endangered Species, about the UK\\u2019s new State of Nature report. Climate change, habitat loss and intensive agricultural practices have been blamed for the decline in species. But all is not lost. Victoria pays a visit to an eco-friendly farm and finds out how innovative agricultural practices can boost wildlife in the UK\\u2019s fields.
We\\u2019re kicking off our series of programmes covering The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. Chair of the judges is Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling at the University of Oxford. He gives us a rundown of this year\\u2019s shortlisted entries.
This week, scientists at CERN in Switzerland announced they have observed how antimatter behaves in the presence of gravity. Particle physicist Jeffrey Hangst, who led the Alpha experiment, tells us why this is a big deal.
We also have the latest on OSIRIS-REx mission, the first NASA mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The capsule parachuted down into the Utah desert this week. It contained a precious cargo of rock and dust samples taken from an asteroid named Bennu. Jon Amos, the BBC\\u2019s science correspondent is in Utah and witnessed the return. He tells Victoria all about it.
BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.
Presenter:\\u202f\\u202fVictoria Gill \\nProducers: Hannah Robins, Harrison Lewis, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell \\nEditor: Richard Collings \\u202f\\u202f \\nProduction Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
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