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Science Podcasts
All of our free science podcasts and science radio shows on science, technology, medicine and engineering in one place...
31 July 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how dairy farming in Africa 7000 years ago led to the speedy evolution of the...
30 July 2012
The UK-Japan Young Scientists Workshop saw students from British and Japanese schools brought together at Cambridge...
30 July 2012
Whether you're watching a YouTube video, downloading an email, buying a birthday present or linking up with...
29 July 2012
How can science, technology and engineering aid the world's elite athletes? In this special edition of the Naked...
27 July 2012
What's the point of making medicines fizzy? Why should salt have a sell-by date? Is boiled water as good as...
25 July 2012
Lycra podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
25 July 2012
When does the impossible become possible? Researchers have found Red Dwarf stars that simply shouldn't exist, so...
22 July 2012
From the first flight to supersonic air-travel was achieved in under 50 years. To discover what made it all possible we...
20 July 2012
This week, what causes anencephaly and exencephaly? Can electric cars recharge themselves from their wheels? How do...
18 July 2012
DEET podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
18 July 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how browner drinking water presents problems for the water companies; the effect...
17 July 2012
Find out about the exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience, providing scientists with the tools...
16 July 2012
Reporting from the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Spain we find out what happens when your...
16 July 2012
Do your eyes give you away when you lie? In this NewsFlash, we'll explore the evidence for the idea that gaze...
15 July 2012
Should we blow up objects on a collision course with Earth? Or will they do less damage left intact? More importantly,...
15 July 2012
Reporting from the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona, we find out how your brain...
14 July 2012
Every biology student is familiar with DNA - the ladder-like blueprint of life built on a backbone of the sugar...
13 July 2012
This week, the cause of vitiligo, whether pork is linked to a sore throat, what happens to a flame in microgravity,...
11 July 2012
Nitrous oxide podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
10 July 2012
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission lands on Mars next month after a nine-month journey across our Solar...
09 July 2012
We find out if the type of cutlery used to prepare and serve food can alter its flavour? And does it really change, or...
09 July 2012
In this NewsFlash, we hear how a breath of bicarbonate might cut infections related to Cystic Fibrosis, discover a nano...
08 July 2012
Super bainite, a surprisingly-strong steel, is the subject of this week's Naked Scientists. We discover how it...
06 July 2012
What does the discovery of the Higgs particle mean? How do flies land upside down on the ceiling? What happens when we...