Science Podcasts

From talking whales to training astronauts, we re-visit our favourite science celebrations of 2018.

What do turkeys get up to, before they end up on your plate? How do Christmas trees survive the cold?

Why don't birds get electrocuted on an electric fence?

What is the fallout from the world's first GM babies?

How does the liver repair itself so well?

Hundreds of tiny robots that together are greater than the sum of their parts.

Singing Scientist Rishi Nag wrote us a Christmas song...

What exactly is the peripheral nervous system, and what can go wrong with it?

A new way of hunting down cancer is much more accurate than previous attempts

Nerves that taste salt, the first flowers and a fossil flying squirrel...

How to cut down on carbon and waste this Christmas!

How do our bodies heal themselves, and can science help?

A new device produces clean water and superheated steam using solar energy.

What happens to air bubbles in water in zero-gravity?

Why do I appear upside down in a spoon? What would Earth be like if we had two moons?

A new device that can perform single cell biopsies.

Space Boffins celebrate fifty years of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon.

Two musicians, a journalist and an Astronaut take us through the history of space exploration.

Will toddlers with good language skills still be doing well in 10 years time?

How do earthworms move through the soil, and could a black hole be a worm hole?

A tiny version of a human placenta will help investigate mysteries of pregnancy.

Soft robots need a nervous system, too

If the Universe is expanding, is it being pushed or pulled? Do men enjoy spice more than women do?

Imagining a threat activates the same brain process as real exposure.