Science Podcasts

Could you pass the flu onto your pooch? Could your dog then sneeze over your Great Aunt Mildred? We find out!

How do you look for the cause of a brand new medical problem?

What weighs 1000 tonnes, is 150 metres long and moves 200 metres a day? Meet the new tunnel-boring machines burrowing...

We take a look at the genetics of heart disease, tame the tiger genome, and our gene of the month is for hopeless...

Why tugging on nasal hairs causes crying? What triggers static shocks? Why are computers based around binary? What are...

This weeks solid staple... Concrete

Helen Scales looks at cantharidin, the active ingredient in this famous aphrodisiac

Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham undergo G forces with a special podcast from QinetiQ's centrifuge.

Awarded annually for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine, what are the Nobel Prizes?

Who's your Bronze Age Ancestor?

Live on location at the Cambridge Science Centre: Atmospheric chemistry, human papilloma viruses, jet engines and DIY...

The regeneration gene, evolution of photosynthesis, mice at the disco, cells that think they're dead and how much...

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of a new fundamental particle, that could be the much...

A molecule exploited by HIV to spread between cells can be altered to block viral transmission, heralding a new...

What do nerve cells look like, how do they carry information, and how does one nerve connect and communicate with...

One of Western Australia's best-loved and most striking birds - the red-tailed black cockatoo - though once common...

Serotonin, the 'happy molecule', may be at the root of depression, but Hayley Birch finds we still have a lot...

We examine whether Earth can sustainably support this many humans.

Why do we need sleep and why do some people fall asleep at the wrong times? We explore the science of snoozing and how...

What colour were human ancestors? What does a rocket push against in space to propel itself forward? Why does yawning...

Researchers have developed a new way of tracking the development of Alzheimer's disease using a radioactive marker...

A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called 'bog body' with intact...

Wrongly blamed for murders and hallucinations, Simon Cotton raises a glass of absinthe to this week's compound:...

Dominic Ford reports from the European Planetary Science Congress, where he heard about the latest misisons to Mars and...