Science Podcasts

What's inside Enceladus? How do we make water safe for drinking? How Sunny is it on Saturn's moons? What...

Wednesday, the 2nd of April was World Autism Awareness Day so here's your Quick Fire Science to help you get to...

Purple was once a colour only royalty could afford to wear. Hayley Birch investigates tyrian purple, or dibromoindigo,...

How handedness spans the scientific world, from the smallest particles in the Universe to drugs that cure disease...

Is technology changing at too fast a pace for our genetic material? Has human evolution halted? We find out!

The mating habits of flies, radiation resistance in bacteria, how insects learned to smell, and the Hawaiian bobtail...

How do scientists make synthetic chromosomes? How does heat radiate? Where does oxygen come from? Why does anxiety make...

It's a black box recorder which could hold clues as to how the flight MH370 crashed. But how do they work?

Stephen Wallace introduces batrachotoxin, a deadly toxin that comes from a beautiful little frog

2014 is the Year of Code, but why has coding, and getting kids into computer science become so important?

Could we banish planes and instead use the Earth's natural spin to help long distance travel across its surface?

Is gravity waves from the Big Bang a big deal? Is evolution still occurring? Why does water boil at lower temperature...

Why are psychiatric illnesses, like anxiety and depression, on the increase? Could disorders like ADHD provide...

With the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 still missing after nearly two weeks, some people are asking how you can lose...

Brian Clegg introduces the first compound to ever exist - helium hydride

... against the combined brain power of the Naked Scientists, in this National Science Week Question and Answer Special...

The course of true love never did run smooth. The Malacological Society of London held their annual meeting all about...

How the processing power of a brain compares with a computer and why the bubbles in Guinness go downwards...

We find out how DNA gets damaged and repaired. Plus liver from skin cells, DNA from ancient teeth, and a scary little...

With as much as 30% of all species potentially at risk of extinction, there is a 'Noah's ark' problem of...

Simon Cotton introduces the first antibiotic known to kill TB: Streptomycin

With climate change expected to bring drought and floods, we look at the management strategies which could tackle this...

Does lightning fry fish when its hits the sea or a lake?

This month, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the challenge of looking for space aliens and why they...