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13 March 2013

Brian Clegg brightens up our lives with some bright yellow chemistry

12 March 2013

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at the potential to generate up to 20 per cent of the UK's...

12 March 2013

Cambridge chemist and biotechnologist Shankar Balasubramanian discusses DNA sequencing and its implications for health...

11 March 2013

We spoke to Emma Smith, a PhD student with the British Antarctic Survey about her work whilst she was based in the icy...

10 March 2013

Comets, Mars and the first phone in space are featured in the latest Space Boffins podcast. Recorded at London's...

08 March 2013

Does a cloudy day aggravate arthritis? Was the biblical flood real? How does a gastric bypass work? Will a knife in...

07 March 2013

Internet searches give clues to drug side effects, sink holes, flame-retardant DNA and feeding the planet in future...

07 March 2013

We find out if a body wrap will help you lose weight. Plus we ask are humans the only animals that practice dental...

06 March 2013

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is the Cambridge Science Festival's guest director this year. He spoke with...

06 March 2013

Simon Cotton channels the Fonz and stays cool

01 March 2013

How did horse meat end up in the food chain? Is baking foil bad for you? How big are viruses? How are urine and sweat...

28 February 2013

Research at the extremes: We find out how the Halley VI station was engineered to enable great science and withstand...

28 February 2013

We find out if Earth's expanding human population will affect water supplies. Plus we ask, does the new anti-fat...

27 February 2013

Brian Clegg opens our eyes to the compounds that enable sight

25 February 2013

2013 looks like a good year for comets! We find out where these balls of dust and ice come from and what to expect from...

22 February 2013

Why do ovaries run out of eggs? Why does diesel smell nice but burning engine oil is unpleasant? More of your science...

21 February 2013

New drugs for flu, bees read electrical fields, why moles are sensitive to seismic vibrations and how good is a sharks...

20 February 2013

What happens when you fall into, and out of, love? Can you enhance monogamy with oxytocin? And what does a fruit fly...

20 February 2013

Josh Howgego looks into the past, with help from some alkenones

19 February 2013

Why textbook depictions of our early ancestors may have to be re-drawn; and why underwater canyons contain a wealth of...

14 February 2013

You've probably heard of DNA, but what do you know about RNA? As well as being the molecule that shuttles...

14 February 2013

Love is... neurochemistry? This week, we look at love from a scientific perspective...

14 February 2013

Many other species have multiple partners, but are humans meant for monogamy? Plus we ask, do flies have a super sense...

13 February 2013

Philip Robinson tells us about the first chemotherapeutic drug