Science Podcasts

Brian Clegg discusses the vitamin found in both breakfast cereal and meteorites: Niacin

Eggs, chickens and chocolate abound in this Easter special.

What is it about yeast which makes it so useful in bread making?

The Naked Scientists turn up for a special show at 702, with some exciting experiments!

Start your engines! Simon Cotton looks into one of the few chemical names known well to the public: Octane

From crime scene to court room, how is science used to solve crimes?

What causes goosebumps? How close does lightning need to be to hurt you?

Scientists have discovered how bats avoid collisions using a simple set of rules...

Sensible approach to dental rot or sinister communist plot? Brian Clegg examines the much-maligned fluorides

Are psychosis, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression down to abnormal immune responses?

Can cheese give you nightmares?

What causes thunder and lightning? Can you compress light?

Could a brain scan shape a prison sentence, or determine who will re-offend?

Simon Cotton introduces the first of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants: Prozac

Why Newton stuck a needle in his eye, how the brain sees and echoes of the Big Bang...

Can we harvest the power from eels as a source of electricity?

When did humans begin to change the world beyond recognition?

Scientists have come up with a new technology that uses the room lighting to transmit data

We look at the UK government's plan to sequence the genomes of 100,000 people

How do satellites stay in orbit? What is the sun made of?

Once thought to extract the truth and now used to enact the ultimate punishment, this week's compound is sodium...

What parasites are living in and on you, and the tricks these invaders play on their hosts

How NASA's Space Launch System is getting along and Europe's new mission to Mercury....

Our pets can attract a whole host of parasites, but which ones can we catch?