Science Podcasts

A 1957 autopsy specimen from a 29 year old woman found to have pulmonary tuberculosis when she attended the antenatal...

A 1963 autopsy specimen from the Mayo clinic. The specimen is a slice of lung from a fatal case of acute...

Why do onions make you cry and will a frozen onion have the same tear-jerking effect? What medicinal qualities does...

Why are the Horse Chestnut trees looking under the weather? Why are they turning brown before the start of autumn?...

Ammonia podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how hikers and walkers could be unwittingly changing the landscape by spreading...

Certain foods seem to complement each other while others grate; why is this? Is it a matter of personal taste, or is...

This week, the hunter becomes the hunted in a new discovery with beetle larvae and we find out how computer simulation...

We've whipped up an appetising take on the science of food and cooking for you this week. With a main course of...

Are the foundations of Dark Matter crumbling?& How can a planet be blacker than black paint?& What are the...

Cheese is a major (and tasty) part of our diets and humans have been making it for thousands of years? But how is it...

Bombykol podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

If babies are born by caesarian and modern medicine allows many more people to survive to adulthood, will the human...

This month we look into the light to discover how Diamond's new Imaging and Coherance beamline is helping...

In this NewsFlash, we hear how computer gamers can help to solve scientific puzzles, why you not be as good as you...

This week, we're chilling out in the world of cryogenics, the science of the super-cold. We'll find out what...

Does cooking with gas taste better, why are yawns infectious, how does carbon dating work, what is spontaneous human...

Hydrogen cyanide podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: in a geoengineering special edition, we take a closer look at some of the...

Calculators are rather speedy at subtracting, sums and deriving standard deviations. But how do they do it? We find out...

This week, how computer design helps surgeons reconstruct breasts, why mammalian cells modified to contain a single set...

This week, we seek the science of supercomputers!& We find out how they work, and how they can answer some of the...

Is there such a thing as sustainable whale hunting?

Reader in evolution at Wits University, Lee Berger, made a life-changing discovery when he uncovered the remains of a...