Science Podcasts

This week the Michigan town of Hell froze over - but why are temperatures plummeting across America?

Helen Scales finds out how unique toxins found in deadly cone snail stings could herald the next generation of...

Why don't microwave spark off themselves?

How trees tell the time, the germ potential of hot air driers in toilets, where fruit flies come from and does...

Do electrons ever stop spinning? And why don't they ever crash into the centre of the atom?

The growing problem of drug resistance, severe brain damage, sugar versus sweetener, public dilemmas, and the evolution...

Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities.

Home-made ice cream, fruit-fuelled flamethrowers, candle chemistry, LED fairy lights, brain basis of bargains and...

Plant sex, omega-3 fatty acids and the science of sous-vide cuisine...

Touring the brain by visiting the laughter clinic, sauna and psychadelic goats, plus news nuggets from Prof Nutt!

How balls of cells assemble into a baby, cell shape and cancer, getting a handle on limb formation, and dopes Mozart...

Brian Clegg explains how the versatile compound boron nitride may be 'the best kept secret in all of chemistry...

Across the natural world, cells organise themselves into a wonderful array of shapes and structures. But how do they do...

The mysteries of DNA, genetics and inheritance - explained!

Does a fly evolve faster than a toad? A whale slower than a barnacle? And if so, how does our bodies immune system keep...

NASA's Curiosity rover has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater.

A popular way to weed out unwanted pest plants, Jen Newton introduces Glyphosate

Ancient human ancestor DNA, male contraceptive pill, pain-free injection, world's biggest marine reserve and...

The Space Boffins have a lunar love-in featuring Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell and studio guests David Baker and...

How much energy is generating using renewables?

So sweat. Do the birds and bees do it? And even educated fleas? Or is sweating just limited to humans and err, horses?

This week, Ben Valsler investigates the smoky compound that links whisky, kippers, bacon, hot dogs, coffee, creosote...

Live from Cambridge, the search for planets around other stars, mapping the Milky Way and the prospects of life in...

Protein crystallography with electrons, a receptor for carbon dioxide, bacteria and rheumatoid arthritis, plastic...