Science Podcasts

Soft robots need a nervous system, too

If the Universe is expanding, is it being pushed or pulled? Do men enjoy spice more than women do?

Imagining a threat activates the same brain process as real exposure.

This week, The Naked Scientists chomp down the science of teeth.

Scientists have been using gallium to poison bacteria...

How do dogs identify other dogs?

Tackling malaria family planning through computer modelling

How do we tell where a sound is coming from? How does wine taste differently after many years? Why can't we...

How flu pandemics happen and how we can combat them...

Can genetics, technology or drugs engineer a generation of superhumans?

We put memory under the microscope...

Can we use our bodies to fight back against cancer?

Which planes are suited to hurricane research?

Reprogramming your skin cells could one-day fight skin cancer.

An international team of scientists have detected light from the most luminous galaxy known...

How do mosquitoes find you in the dark? What is spooky action at a distance? Why do things go black when they're...

The wildlife impact of urban sprawl, Devil Facial Tumour Disease 2 and how LSD works in the brain...

How WW1 impacted how we treat head injuries, then and now.

How do the objects we see around us every day actually get made?

Could you pick a Neanderthal child out of a line up?

The Space Boffins podcast is in New York with NASA astronaut, engineer and Big Bang Theory star Mike Massimino.

Will AI be making the medicines of the future, and how clever are ravens?

What is deja vu? Do helium balloons defy gravity? Plus the life saving backpack for bees!

Non-genetic traits inherited between generations are rarer than previously thought, according to a new study in Cell.