Science Podcasts

From a glamorous necklace to cutting edge body armour - Helen Scales investigates the properties of nacre

Echolocation, bacteriophages, babies and pain, food on the brain, and fish sunscreen

The Naked Scientists and guests join forces to answer some of your best science questions.

Doctors are campaigning to combat 'over-treatment' of NHS patients...

Our winter immune response could be increasing our risk of heart attacks...

Dressing in red might have your colleagues seeing you in a different light...

Baboons pick their buddies in the same way we do!

How does selective hearing really work?

Modelling algae cells turning inside out, might help us understand how we're made!

'Filter bubbles' on Facebook bias the information individuals see and read...

You may not realise it, but all the food you eat has been genetically altered over time.

Brian Clegg smooths out the wrinkles over the darling of the cosmetic industry, hyaluronic acid

Crashes, contagion and climate change. Do we have anything to fear from planes?

What is this mysterious box? Is it is as clever as we think? And is it even black?

Six months after the historic landing the Space Boffins catch up with the Rosetta team.

Why are babies tummies always swollen? Do our brains function at 100%?

How do mussels stick tight and weather the constant ocean waves? Helen Scales discovers mussel adhesive proteins

How volcanoes blow their tops, and the after-shocks of an eruption...

Why do we develop allergies? Which tectonic plates caused the Nepalese earthquake?

Brian Clegg introduces a compound steeped in faded Victorian glamour – acetylene

We step inside the multidimensional world of the computer games industry...

How are robotic voices generated? And what's their future? Will they ever sound human?

Where are mosquitoes during the winter? Why can't I whistle as I get older?

Men tend to donate competitively on webs pages run by attractive female fundraisers