Science Podcasts

From DVD players and supermarket scanners to laser pointers and Bond movies, lasers are part of our lives. But just how...

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

We find out if fermentation yeast survive being blasted into outer Space, we find out if it is possible to brew up a...

In this NewsFlash, we'll hear how disguising cancer cells as salmonella could hold the key to producing anti-...

Over two-thirds of the energy in the fuel you put into your car is wasted, most of it in the form of heat that exits...

Naked Oceans takes a look around the lush world of seagrasses. We find out how diversity of critters, big and small,...

What is freezing rain, do cats control their owners, how do accents arise, why does hair go grey? What causes deja-vu?

Huge amounts of energy are lost from power stations and cars as heat. But what if we could harness that heat and turn...

Formic acid podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

How much of the baby you were born as it still part of you now? Plus we ask - can you brew beer in space?......

In this NewsFlash - How regions of the brain may “catch” Alzheimer’s from each other, why a new microscopy technique...

Could diet foods be making you fatter? How do we learn to like the foods we eat? This week, we indulge in the science...

Most of us have a microwave oven in our kitchen. They make heating up leftovers and the dreaded readymeal much faster...

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

Two autopsy specimens from the 1940s, the first from a forty year old woman found dead, with her head comfortably set...

First specimen: from a 53 year old woman who died of a cerebral haemorrhage. She was unmarried and had never been...

A 1960 autopsy specimen from a 50 year old woman who had noticed a lump in her right breast 5.5 months prior to her...

An operative resection specimen from a married woman of seventy with no children. Menopause had occurred twenty years...

An autopsy specimen. No clinical history is available for this specimen.

A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 70 year old lady, admitted as an emergency, with drowsiness and a flaccid paralysis of...

A 1957 autopsy specimen from a middle aged man who had noticed seven years progressive loss of concentration and...

An autopsy specimen from a 3 year old child who had had hydrocephalus since birth. Head circumference reaching 55 cm by...

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham goes to the River Wandle in south-west London to find out...

We're told to save electricity by switching off devices on standby. But if a home is heated solely by electricity...