Science Podcasts

Can nature's recyclers, bacteria and fungi, help us clean up man-made environmental problems from oil spills to...

What's the difference between aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen? We turn to a Professor of Pain for the answer.

Are flies getting harder to swat? Why does more food in the microwave take longer to cook? Should penicillin-allergic...

This week an explosion and fire in a mine in Turkey claimed almost three hundred lives. But why are explosions such a...

Once a fusty way of keeping moths out of clothes, Brian Clegg explains how naphthalene may have helped bring life to...

Are our brains a product of nature or nurture, and how does learning change them?

How will power grids be transformed? We look at technology to reduce our energy prices and new ways to include wind and...

We light up our brains with this burning question, igniting the issue with a Professor of Chemistry and Fire Science!

Virtual rides into space, why Scotland needs a spaceport and the incoming asteroid with Earth's name on it...

This week the Royal College of Physicians criticised the standard of asthma care in the UK. Here's your Quick Fire...

Nature has a range of ways to create bioluminescence. Not to be outdone, chemists create their own glow with diphenyl...

In front of a live audience at the Cambridge Science Centre, Chris Smith is joined by three paleontologists to discuss...

The building blocks of life, what is a virus? Why don't whales get the bends? How do 93 and 95 octane fuels differ?

They are the compounds that link leather trousers to a nice cup of tea - Brian Clegg introduces tannins

Pain, gene therapy, insulin production, and aging in worms...

With the demand for new homes ever increasing, we ask what will the buildings of the future be like?

Do you feel tired, irritable and bored during the week? Yet full of beans and enthusiasm at the weekend? We find out...

Plus, are you better off circumcised? And can planets exist without a parent star to orbit?

This week, a boy survived the flight from California to Hawaii, hidden in the wheel well of a plane. Just how amazing...

Anna Lewcock finds out how pigeons played a major role in discovering an important pituitary hormone, prolactin

In a special show from Cambridge and New Zealand, Hannah Critchlow investigates the research into Huntington's...

How are memories formed and lost? Is Alzheimer's just an extreme version of normal ageing? And to what extent does...

The Naked Scientists appear in the flesh at Primedia Place, home of 702, to answer questions from the live audience...

Amongst the fictional forensic equipment shown on television, Brian Clegg notices one distinctly non-fiction stalwart:...