In short: brief podcast episodes telling compelling science stories.

26 June 2013

Clinical Neuropsychologist Barbara Sahakian explains why some people find it difficult to make the right decisions...

20 June 2013

Google announces the deployment of a fleet of balloons to bring Internet access and WiFi within reach in remote places...

19 June 2013

Lars Öhrström on phosphoric acid: Crucial for crops and DNA's backbone, it's the energy currency of the...

14 June 2013

Ginny Smith talked to scientists performing at Chetenham Science Festival, as well as trying out some hands- on...

13 June 2013

A team in Singapore have developed an invisibility cloak that can hide goldfish and cats...

12 June 2013

It repairs objects, heals wounds and fights crime. It puts the ‘super’ in superglue. Emma Stoye introduces cyanoacrylate

06 June 2013

Is Michael Douglas right when he claims his oral cancer was caused by HPV?

05 June 2013

The stuff of action films and horrifying news stories, Simon Cotton introduces the infamous nerve agent, VX

30 May 2013

It's 60 years since the first complete ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay! How did they...

29 May 2013

It's a catalyst, an abrasive, a bright white pigment and the basis for beautiful gemstones - Neil Withers...

23 May 2013

A massive tornado a mile wide ripped through the town of Moore, Oklahoma. But what's the science behind these...

22 May 2013

Simon Cotton introduces us to cathinone, the active ingredient in the stimulant Khat

17 May 2013

How are random numbers generated, and how could it be proved - to the satisfaction of a mathematician, that a number...

16 May 2013

Actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy because she carries a gene called BRCA1, which greatly increases her...

15 May 2013

Emma Stoye on digoxin, a toxic product of foxgloves, and the birth of modern pharmacology

13 May 2013

A campaign has been launched to stop science toys being sold by some stores as "toys for boys". But what does...

08 May 2013

Neil Withers recalls making this groundbreaking superconductor as a student

03 May 2013

Face-lift for old artwork - Ginny Smith visited the Fitzwilliam Museum to find out how oil paintings are restored to...

02 May 2013

Lars Öhrström gets his teeth into the first sandwich compound

25 April 2013

Lars Öhrström finds a link between Napoleon III and rhubarb

25 April 2013

Happy Birthday DNA - Team 1's podcast from the Genetics Society communication workshops at Chicheley Hall.

25 April 2013

Model organisms - Team 2's podcast from the Genetics Society communication workshops at Chicheley Hall.

25 April 2013

Time Travel Genetics - Team 3's podcast from the Genetics Society communication workshops at Chicheley Hall.

18 April 2013

Brian Clegg has a sniff at the bitterest substance known to science