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10 February 2011

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how the Romans recycled glass, dinosaur colour, and what Europe's gravity...

10 February 2011

How do you go about finding a mate if you can't go and look for one? This is the problem corals, which are rooted...

09 February 2011

Sulfuric acid podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

07 February 2011

What does the future hold for us? Is the future bright, shining and brimming with opportunity, or a dark, dystopian...

07 February 2011

Which is better for the environment: an e-card or a traditional paper card? We have the answer for you in this (not...

07 February 2011

In this NewsFlash, we meet the new species of malaria-carrying mosquito, explore new artificial arteries and find out...

06 February 2011

This week we're getting inside the workings of the next generation of chips that are set to pack a bigger...

06 February 2011

Dr. Robert Mullins explains how we go from a computer chip to a fully working computer...

04 February 2011

This week, how stimulating the brain can help you to think outside the box, why corks in the bed can cure cramps, the...

04 February 2011

We all know chameleons can change their colour at will, but how do they do it? And is it really because of camouflage?

02 February 2011

Sulfur hexafluoride podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

31 January 2011

Some hand washes claim to kill 99.99% of all germs. What do these advertising slogans really mean? Would two hand...

31 January 2011

This month we look back at Diamond's scientific highlights of 2010 to reveal how microbes are eroding away our...

31 January 2011

In this NewsFlash, we find out why our model of the circadian clock might be wrong, how the bacteria that live inside a...

30 January 2011

Leprosy goes under the microscope this week as we uncover the origins of one of the oldest known human diseases,...

30 January 2011

This week we join Hugh Hunt to explore how retroflectors work to help us see at night...

28 January 2011

In this latest watery-themed Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears how the underwater world isn't the...

28 January 2011

Straight from the horse's mouth, or cow's stomach, this week how scientists have found the genetic clue to...

26 January 2011

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

25 January 2011

This month on Naked Astronomy, we discover the streams of antimatter coming from lightning on Earth, and find out how...

24 January 2011

Light is supposed to be massless so how is it that gravity makes a beam bend?

24 January 2011

In this NewsFlash from the Naked Scientists, news of a novel way to neutralise HIV, researchers uncover how brains...

23 January 2011

We're analysing the matter of antimatter this week to find out what is antimatter, how is it made and why's...

23 January 2011

We explore what a PET Scan is, how a PET scanner works and discover a way to make them clearer and more efficient by...