Science Podcasts

This week: what methods does our body use to keep itself warm? What does shivering actually do?

In this NewsFlash, how box jellyfish navigate by seeing the shape of the objects above them, why researchers have...

Is standing or reclining best for the perfect suntan? Can we see atoms? Why add pennies to Big Ben's pendulum? It...

Why is sea level rising, are organ transplants between males and females feasible, what keeps a moving bike upright and...

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how a specially-designed twin turboprop research plane is helping scientists in...

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

An entire Taenia species tapeworm, an incidental finding at post mortem

An autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man. No clinical history available.

An operative resection specimen from a trans-hiatal oesophagectomy performed on an elderly male. He had a 3 month...

A 1912 autopsy specimen from a 20 year old woman whose first pregnancy had run a normal course, until the third...

Aubrey T.L., aged 4.5 months, was admitted under Mr Lane for obstruction. The child was born with an imperforate anus...

Beatrice C., aged 42, was admitted for vague generalised abdominal pain, with vomiting and diarrhoea. She had first...

An historic surgical resection specimen from a 24 year old woman who gave a two and a half year history of weight loss...

A 1964 operative resection specimen from a 46 year old woman. In 1951 ulcerative colitis was diagnosed and subsequent...

A 1958 resection specimen from a 53 year old woman admitted in 1956 with a thirteen year history of intermittent...

An incidental finding at routine autopsy in a man of 46, who had had no symptoms referable to his heart at any period...

A 1948 autopsy specimen from a four month old girl who was noticed to breathe rapidly from birth, having cyanotic...

An 1968 autopsy specimen from an eight week old boy who was normal at birth but was noted to be cyanosed and breathless...

An autopsy specimen from a 16 year old Eton schoolboy who collapsed whilst in the scrum. He was semi-conscious and...

A 1951 autopsy specimen from a 51year old broker who collapsed on London Bridge...

Autopsy sections of the Heart from 3 different people, mounted together. (1) A lesion in which necrosis has caused...

A 1969 autopsy specimen from a 66 year old woman admitted with chest pain. On admission she was cyanosed and in heart...

A 1950 autopsy specimen from a 73 year old woman who was found dead in bed. She had, on retiring the previous evening,...

A 1934 autopsy specimen from a 42 year old woman who was attending St. Thomas' Hospital from the age of 14 to 21,...