Plus mice freezing when they smell cats, and ameliorating the effects of a gene linked to...
Science Podcasts
All of our free science podcasts and science radio shows on science, technology, medicine and engineering in one place...
Featured
20 December 2024
10 February 2012
Huge amounts of energy are lost from power stations and cars as heat. But what if we could harness that heat and turn...
08 February 2012
Formic acid podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
06 February 2012
How much of the baby you were born as it still part of you now? Plus we ask - can you brew beer in space?......
06 February 2012
In this NewsFlash - How regions of the brain may “catch” Alzheimer’s from each other, why a new microscopy technique...
05 February 2012
Could diet foods be making you fatter? How do we learn to like the foods we eat? This week, we indulge in the science...
03 February 2012
Most of us have a microwave oven in our kitchen. They make heating up leftovers and the dreaded readymeal much faster...
02 February 2012
Morphine podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
01 February 2012
Two autopsy specimens from the 1940s, the first from a forty year old woman found dead, with her head comfortably set...
01 February 2012
First specimen: from a 53 year old woman who died of a cerebral haemorrhage. She was unmarried and had never been...
01 February 2012
A 1960 autopsy specimen from a 50 year old woman who had noticed a lump in her right breast 5.5 months prior to her...
01 February 2012
An operative resection specimen from a married woman of seventy with no children. Menopause had occurred twenty years...
01 February 2012
An autopsy specimen. No clinical history is available for this specimen.
01 February 2012
A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 70 year old lady, admitted as an emergency, with drowsiness and a flaccid paralysis of...
01 February 2012
A 1957 autopsy specimen from a middle aged man who had noticed seven years progressive loss of concentration and...
01 February 2012
An autopsy specimen from a 3 year old child who had had hydrocephalus since birth. Head circumference reaching 55 cm by...
31 January 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham goes to the River Wandle in south-west London to find out...
30 January 2012
We're told to save electricity by switching off devices on standby. But if a home is heated solely by electricity...
30 January 2012
In this NewsFlash, how induced stem cells help us to understand Alzheimer's disease, while embryonic stem cells...
29 January 2012
Has all the air in the world been breathed before? Are any viruses beneficial to health? Can naked farts transmit...
27 January 2012
Should wounds be left open or covered up? Why toenails - but not thumbnails - ingrow, what is hydatid disease?
25 January 2012
Carbon monoxide podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
25 January 2012
Can a mid-infra red view reveal the universe's secrets? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we meet MIRI, the...
23 January 2012
This month, we step inside to explore what, and who, it takes to run the synchrotron. We meet the people that keep the...
23 January 2012
This week I'll be getting inside your head..... with a question from Jarraryd Dunn