Science Podcasts

Plus, 11 minutes of exercise reduces risk of fatality, and why the latest aurora was so far south

Why do women stop producing breast milk?

What’s the toilet like in SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft?

Plus, how the bee microbiome uses cyanide from dietary toxins to fend off parasites, and links between mitochondrial...

Can the often destructive forces of our planet shed light on its inner workings?

Is time something truly fundamental to our Universe, or just an illusion?

Plus, the early bows and arrows in Europe, and if the 4 day work week trial has been a success

Does the language we speak have an effect on the way we perceive receiving rewards?

Nuclear physicists have been set the challenge to generate clean energy in 15 years...

Plus, tool-using cockatoos and the giant penguin which lived 50 million years ago...

Could the worst outbreak of avian influenza on record lead to another pandemic?

Plus, the overlooked threat of indoor air pollution, and the newly deciphered letters from Mary Queen of Scots

Cutting back on environmental damage is key to farming of the future...

Why is that hard, and how did rhyme, song and rhythm evolve? Also, we take a look at treatments for cataracts...

The bacteria which make the rocks beneath our feet their home...

A Hubble astronaut and the UK's "Space Minister" grace the podcast this month...

A light- hearted discussion about positive thinking in bad times...

Also, machine learning algorithm proves more efficient at searching for aliens, and results from the sugar tax

We examine some of the surprising capabilities that satellites have and the dangers satellites face in orbit

Is paying people to turn off their appliances the precursor to a digital control of our energy consumption?

What is a wormhole?

Leigh and Chris take on Goat Simulator 3, and we find out if physical copies of games are on the way out.

Large language models are ushering in a new era of idea generation...

Hair follicles remodel scar tissue, and mature brain cells grown in the lab