Science Podcasts

Extreme Physiology: Everest to the Ocean Floor

A team in Singapore have developed an invisibility cloak that can hide goldfish and cats...

It repairs objects, heals wounds and fights crime. It puts the ‘super’ in superglue. Emma Stoye introduces cyanoacrylate

A full, frank and funny interview with Tim Peake, Richard goes inside NASA's 'crazy ideas', and Sue...

How do continental plates move? Is the weather worse at weekends? What does your brain choose to ignore? Why do wet...

Reporting from Lake Baikal, how nicotine switches off attention in the teenage brain, and a visit to a Siberian sauna!

We find out if a mountain on Earth could ever reach 20 km high. Plus we ask, what is going on during an emotional...

Fooling GPS devices to report the wrong locations, pinpointing people in buildings, tracking volcanic dust, and nuclear...

Is Michael Douglas right when he claims his oral cancer was caused by HPV?

The stuff of action films and horrifying news stories, Simon Cotton introduces the infamous nerve agent, VX

What's the radiation dose for trips to Mars? Is dental amalgam dangerous? Why do trees drop their leaves in winter?

We find out if street lights are affecting plants and birds. Plus we ask how high can a mountain be here on Earth?

New LEDs and how LED lighting affects health, a new way to fight flu, treating schizophrenia with avatars and 400 year...

It's 60 years since the first complete ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay! How did they...

It's a catalyst, an abrasive, a bright white pigment and the basis for beautiful gemstones - Neil Withers...

The processes that can trigger a galaxy to double in brightness

What is genetic diversity? What causes colourblindness? Why does a microwave turntable sometimes rotate in the opposite...

We find out what happens if you take a plant into space, and we ask how does new lighting affect nature?

This week, how plants keep track of time, viruses spread by sapsuckers, smoke makes fire-sensitive seeds germinate, and...

A massive tornado a mile wide ripped through the town of Moore, Oklahoma. But what's the science behind these...

Simon Cotton introduces us to cathinone, the active ingredient in the stimulant Khat

Infected by earworms, does Mozart make you smarter, plus are creativity and delusions linked?

Why are bubbles always white? What does a thrusting rocket push against? How do we know a random number is random?

How are random numbers generated, and how could it be proved - to the satisfaction of a mathematician, that a number...