Science Podcasts

Are reawakening, dormant viruses to blame? And what's the prognosis for the one person in twenty left feeling low...

Hatred is a powerful human emotion. It can motivate individuals and nations, sometimes with tragic consequences...

Plus, spotting dementia early and plastic eating worms...

What does anaesthetic do? and why don’t the colour stripes in toothpaste mix?

Or is shale destined to fail?

Plus the rest of this week's news...

Would fireworks work on Mars? And what do steroids do to the body?

Chris and James take on the Trieste Next science festival, and find out about some of the research going on.

How do you design a space settlement government without it descending into tyranny?

A non-invasive ultrasound technique to gauge breast tissue density could improve cancer pick-up rates...

A better curtain in The Last of Us Part I, and we look at what gamification is.

How do meteors form? Is the universe finite or infinite?

How sweeteners could cause risk of cardiovascular disease, and a new antibiotic found in trees.

In a world of threatened resources and growing population, how should we eat sustainably and responsibly?

How many calories are in a human brain? And what would happen if our planet stopped rotating?

Setting glue, the difference between mist and fog, and are gravitational waves audible?

How much work is it to develop a game on your own?

The bugs we trade with urban animals, how putting the squeeze on cancer affects metastasis, and tracing population...

And more from this week's quick fire science questions with Dr Chris Smith.

When the film LADY OF HEAVEN was released, there were vigorous protests and Cineworld withdrew the film. What was going...

The institutionalised falsities that still plague scientific study today.

And the rest of your weekly dose of science news and views...

Do galaxies form around black holes or does a black hole move to a galaxy's centre after it's formed?

How the bugs living inside us could contribute towards our health and disease