Daryl Ilbury

Deputy editor
Daryl is a multi-award winning broadcaster and columnist. He has over 25 years of experience in the media – as a presenter in the highly competitive arena of breakfast radio in both music and talk-formats with some of South Africa’s biggest commercial radio stations, and as an op-ed columnist with The Sunday Times, The Saturday Star, The Sunday Tribune and Leadership magazine. He holds a degree in clinical psychology and a postgraduate HDE.

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Diamond Light Source - just call it the Eureka Doughnut

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12 March 2012

Isn’t Diamond Light Source a bit like the LHC? “Good heavens, no,” writes Daryl Ilbury. “This one works.”

Bar-headed geese, and the physiology of high altitude flight

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29 February 2012

Meet the bar-headed goose - the bird that beats its wings where angels fear to fly

Elements podcast #2 - Cyclist in a box, DNA in a box, water meters, glue ear mice, #hairyfish

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27 February 2012

This is the second podcast from Elements - a new breed of science journalism. Cyclists, DNA and water in a box, Stonehenge, maternal mortality and #hairyfish

Funding research in Africa

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22 February 2012

Should research in Africa be conducted by African researchers? If so, who’s going to fund it?

Elements podcast #1: talking about dinosaurs, pandas, hairy fish and urine

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14 February 2012

Elements of a new breed of science journalism can now be heard in this, the first podcast from the Elements team.

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