Science Podcasts

The second instalment of the Prisms Podcast from Cambridge University Press

Swatting weak bugs might mean only the strongest genes are passed down the generations...

How the JWST is solving mysteries across the universe

We find out about a choir that sings music from games, and review Diablo IV and Sea of Stars.

Also, why do golf balls have dimples?

Did they just dig until they struck it lucky?

Plus, the street drugs being linked to deaths in the UK

We speak to experts on learning from the past to fight diseases of the future...

Sending your remains skyward, and a space repair reminscent of Apollo 13...

Plus, the scary sounds of the savannah...

And what is the difference between old and new vaccines?

And how do they form in the first place...

The former Chief Medical Officer in England talks vocations, being CMO, and antibiotic resistance

Should every new human be genetically sequenced, and are data already lurking in the literature the key to conserving...

Plus, are mammals really halfway through their time on Earth?

What can Steller's sea cows teach us about oxygen delivery at low temperatures, and the brain's response to...

Also, why are dreams so believable? And can sunflowers absorb radiation?

Do they simply enjoy their own reflection...

A pioneer of IVF, and a lover of the opera...

Plus, the mission to bring an asteroid sample back to Earth...

Why do most mammals have four limbs? What will happen when the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide?

The answer relates to the two layers which make up our skin...

Chris Berrow chats to Sea of Stars creator Thierry Boulanger

Charting a commendable career of public service, saving millions of lives during the HIV and Covid crises...