In short: brief podcast episodes telling compelling science stories.

18 April 2013

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

10 April 2013

Brian Clegg explains how bath salts may actually be more than just relaxing

03 April 2013

Simon Cotton explains the discovery of 'the drug of last resort'

27 March 2013

Brian Clegg raises a glass to unscrupulous barmen

21 March 2013

Simon Cotton looks at the rocket propellant that causes environmental problems

17 March 2013

Breasts, bazookas, bosons and bombs: The Naked Scientists take to the stage for the Cambridge Science Festival 2013

13 March 2013

Brian Clegg brightens up our lives with some bright yellow chemistry

12 March 2013

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at the potential to generate up to 20 per cent of the UK's...

12 March 2013

Cambridge chemist and biotechnologist Shankar Balasubramanian discusses DNA sequencing and its implications for health...

11 March 2013

We spoke to Emma Smith, a PhD student with the British Antarctic Survey about her work whilst she was based in the icy...

06 March 2013

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is the Cambridge Science Festival's guest director this year. He spoke with...

06 March 2013

Simon Cotton channels the Fonz and stays cool

27 February 2013

Brian Clegg opens our eyes to the compounds that enable sight

20 February 2013

Josh Howgego looks into the past, with help from some alkenones

19 February 2013

Why textbook depictions of our early ancestors may have to be re-drawn; and why underwater canyons contain a wealth of...

13 February 2013

Philip Robinson tells us about the first chemotherapeutic drug

06 February 2013

Brian Clegg looks at one of the original environmental villains

05 February 2013

In this Planet Earth podcast, how a new genetic strain could halt ask dieback, and the challenges of getting biofuel...

01 February 2013

Cambridge scientists have uncovered a new way to combat the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

30 January 2013

Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was 'bling'

23 January 2013

Josh Howgego prepares to socialise - and tells us why 'cuddle chemicals' are too good to be true

22 January 2013

How an insect borne virus poses a worrying threat to the UK's great tit population, plus the hot conservation...

16 January 2013

Rust podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

09 January 2013

Silicones podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry