Science Podcasts

Why do wires tangle? How are mountains formed? Is borehole water drinkable?

Scientists in America have helped a paralysed man to take his first steps in over 5 years.

How do the parasitic worms that transmit diseases like elephantitis invade the body?

Does being a good parent shorten your lifespan? Yes, at least if you're a burying beetle.

Raychelle Burks finds out how Potbelly's patrons became poisoning patients, in the mystery of the sodium azide-...

Endangered elephants have fewer offspring if their mothers are stressed when they are born

From the emergency call to recovery process: meet the people ready to save your life.

In this week's podcast, Matt Gunther reveals the toxic history of gelsemine

Why is gooseberry jam red, when gooseberries are green?

What causes sleep paralysis? Should we drink wee? Can we clone from fossils?

In this week's podcast, Raychelle Burks tells us of the cool but warming effects of methyl salicylate, better...

Past changes in climate had dramatic effects on our oceans - what can theseteach us?

A molecular signature in blood informs of the risk of developing age related diseases.

To figure out which genes are linked to diseases, researchers have to go large.

Why do we make mistakes during repetitive tasks? It happens all the time, but why?

How old are the Homo naledi remains and how did they end up in the Rising Star cave?

A new species of early human ancestor - Homo naledi - has been uncovered in South Africa

Now that the probe has reached the perihelion, Space Boffins ask what's next?

How teens are publishing papers and why the battle against the STEM shortage may be over.

Fingernails seem to have obvious uses but what are our toenails for?

Children who grow up in dusty farm environments are shielded from developing allergies

It's at the heart of the first chemical equation, and makes Hayley Birch think of quiche. This week's...

21 years in the making, scientists finally get intimate with Pluto and what lies beyond...