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Science Podcasts
All of our free science podcasts and science radio shows on science, technology, medicine and engineering in one place...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 76 year old female who presented with headaches and was found to have a berry aneurysm....
01 September 2011
A 1958 autopsy specimen from a patient who died of a'byronesque' massive pulmonary haemorrhage due to...
01 September 2011
A 1937 autopsy specimen from a fatal case of Weil's disease (leptospirosis) comprising halves of both kidneys. No...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from the former Wellcome collection, consisting of the kidney, pelvis and ureter showing...
01 September 2011
A 1936 autopsy specimen from a man aged 34 who first presented with tuberculosis of the hip at the age of 9 years. Six...
01 September 2011
A liver from a woman aged 55 from Dominica who suffered from Schistosomamansoni infection. Death was due to...
01 September 2011
A 1971 autopsy specimen from the Dreadnought hospital. The specimen, an incidental finding, comprises a male urethra...
31 August 2011
Polyhydroxybutyrate podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
28 August 2011
This week, Chris explores some of the cutting edge research taking place in Aberdeen.& We meet a scientist making...
24 August 2011
Formaldehyde podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
23 August 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, why scientists are working with the National Trust to restore the chalk...
22 August 2011
Given that photons are massless, how do solar sails get pushed along by light? We explore the reasoning in this...
22 August 2011
We discover diamonds in candle flames in this week's Naked Scientists NewsFlash, but sadly, only a few atoms...
21 August 2011
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the "plane". Or so the saying goes, but new research has confirmed...
21 August 2011
We explore how the jet engine evolved to become such an efficient, powerful piece of technology, from the early designs...
19 August 2011
Where and in what volume is mucus made in the body? Why do bums look darker that skin elsewhere on the body? How does...
18 August 2011
Glucose podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
17 August 2011
This month, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen explores human empathy and explains what empathy is, how it differs amongst the...
15 August 2011
Do bubbles act like insulation on the surface of your bath?& Will it prevent the need for that toe-burning hot...
15 August 2011
In this NewsFlash, we meet the deep-sea microbes that feed on the hydrogen from hydrothermal vents, and discover a...
14 August 2011
Are designer molecules poised to take us into a new chemical dimension?& This week, we explore how, long before the...
14 August 2011
David Compton from Industrial Chemicals Ltd explains the conditions, materials and equipment needed to make tonnes of a...
12 August 2011
What makes the eye's pupils change size? Does scratching a coin make a machine more likely to accept it? Why does...
12 August 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how scientists are using fish scales to figure out why the UK salmon population...