Science Podcasts

Polio has not been seen in Britain since the 80's, but the disease is still endemic in three countries. Can it be...

How do GM and cloning differ? Will lightning fry a swimmer? Why does beetroot make urine red? How do comets come by...

Brian Clegg meets a simple organic compound with a reputation for being something of a bruiser

Why is the UK investing in space weather forecasts, does the Sun cause climate change and how can solar storms affect...

New Zealand adventures with sheep, finding the Huntington's gene, developing new therapies for the brain and...

Crowd funding programmes have raised money for Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to monitor carbon dioxide...

Simon Cotton looks back at the history of one of our favourite painkillers, paracetamol

Have you stuck to your New Year's Resolutions? We investigate the psychology of willpower and how long it takes to...

Hearing loss is distressing, but researchers are starting to unpick the genetic causes behind some of these problems.

There's not that many bugs around this time of year, but those that are seem to collect by by kitchen light. Why...

How is the scale of coronal mass ejection (CME) measured? How does evolution work? What causes magnetic field flips?...

Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham meet astronaut Chris Hadfield.

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...