Science Podcasts

Just the bare bones this week as we find out how exercise strengthens the skeleton and how new scanning techniques can...

We explore how load cells can be used measure muscle force and develop treatments for physiotherapy...

How do melons concentrate water in their flesh? Why do some hairs grow longer than others? What's the advantage of...

In this month's Naked Astronomy, we explore the unique system of six planets orbiting the star Kepler 11, and find...

Carolin Crawford explores our place in the Cosmos...

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

If you're hanging onto the back of a car, how fast would it have to go before you were lifted off the ground?

In this NewsFlash, we'll find out how an isolated population of people in Ecuador may hold the genetic key to a...

We look to the skies in this week's Naked Scientists show, to uncover ways to monitor and change the chemistry of...

One of the many options in the fight against climate change is to send particles up into our stratosphere to reflect...

What's actually going on in a lightbulb when you switch it on? And why are energy saving bulbs more efficient than...

This month: current events in Egypt affecting ancient artefacts; Britons fashioning cups from skulls; Games played in...

For this month's Cafe, Graham Fraser discusses the prevalence and causes of Alzheimers disease as well is his...

Graham Fraser from the Medical Research Council explains the potential causes of alzheimers disease and how his team...

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

Is it possible to walk in a straight line if one is blind or blindfolded? Are blind people better at it? Find the...

In this NewsFlash, the fossil evidence that the famous human ancestor Lucy - Australopithecus afarensis - had arched...

How do magnets multiply? What keeps an aeroplane in the air? How do wild animals avoid incest? It's open season on...

This week, the causes of asthma, a new way to "K.O." MRSA, what is lupus and can it be controlled, how do...

Valentines Day is here and this month on Naked Oceans we reveal some of the unusual mating habits of ocean animals. How...

Fewer than one third of patients who suffer a heart attack attend rehabilitation sessions, despite evidence that this...

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how the Romans recycled glass, dinosaur colour, and what Europe's gravity...

How do you go about finding a mate if you can't go and look for one? This is the problem corals, which are rooted...

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