Science Podcasts

Healthy, intelligent or both for a CEO or leader? Researchers have found the answer...

Facial hair a different colour to that on your head? We stroke our beards to ponder why...

Tim Bussey is re-releasing a record from the 80s to highlight gender inequality in science

Why are yawns contagious? How important is your sense of smell? What causes cataracts?

It smells of 'rotting horseradish' but gives glass a magnificent red colour – Brian Clegg shines a light on...

Join us for a spooky look at the science of the supernatural.

Growing a stomach, surviving Ebola and homosexual dolphins...

Understanding the human genome takes another step forward.

Influenza, overeating, cannabis and the brain, HIV cure research, and sea squirts...

Marketed as a path to eternal youth but banned in professional sports, Hayley Simon introduces human growth hormone

Driverless cars, pizza-delivering drones, transparent airliners and holidays in space...

Will we cause our own demise by burning the candle at both ends?

Why do people talk to themselves? Can cats cut your risk of a heart attack?

It may have no common name, but as Brian Clegg explains, magnesium chloride has many common uses

Crime-combating lamp-posts, ply-scrapers and super-sewers, staples of tomorrow's towns...

Murderous mussels and killer shrimp are poised for a UK invasion.

Could early life stress be beneficial? Plus turning the youth justice system on its head.

Why do leaves turn red in the autumn? And how do they know when it is time to drop?

Simon Cotton takes us back to a dark day in UK history, to highlight a terrible use of acetone peroxide

Our furry four-legged friends lend a paw in disease detection...

Could we one day be popping pills that tweak our metabolism and make us live longer?

What does climate change have in store for our futures?

Can you be prone to attract lightning? What should you do to avoid being struck?

Why do I sneeze in bright light? Can the radio control my dreams?