Science Podcasts

This week, we find out how to get useful gas from useless coal, and make money from waste carbon dioxide!&...

Engine driver David Gates takes us through the workings of a steam engnine to explain how they powered early trains,...

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - What UK farmers are doing to protect the country's vanishing bumblebees,...

This month: how a neat piece of statistical analysis has led to the construction of a prehistoric history; how...

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

Professor Jenny Morton provides new insight into the cognitive abilities of the supposedly dim-witted sheep and...

This month we hear investigating the cognitive abilities of sheep can enable a better insight into the development and...

Is it true that there are more earthquakes now than in the past, and that they are more intense? We explore the problem...

A new source of cells to repair damaged hearts as well as a way to tailor make hearing aids...

The good side of microbes goes under the microscope this week as we explore how the 100 trillion bacteria that thrive...

Dr. Martina Micheletti explains how monitoring the fluid dynamics through a bioreactor could help manufacturers produce...

We venture into the deep to find out how scientists are using cutting edge technologies to explore the darkest and most...

How do doctors name phobias? Is the ice on the freezer sides safe to eat? What is the low-frequency hum I can hear? Is...

Anything in the deep sea, whether that's the microbes that live down there, or the research vehicles sent down to...

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

Have you ever noticed how leaving bits of leftover breakfast cereal uneaten causes it to harden like cement to the side...

This week, how increasing CO2 levels could stop fish from finding a home and new insight into how sunspots keep warm....

What would we see at the edge of the universe? Are there long term health effects of eating spicy food? Why doesn'...

Can haemorrhoid cream treat under-eye bags, how much radiation was released from Fukushima, why is the moon larger on...

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - the cunning tricks the cuckoo uses to get another bird to do the parenting, why...

One of the biggest problems when it comes to caring for the ocean realm is that it is out of sight and out of mind. It...

Silver nitrate podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry

An autopsy specimen from a 46 year old woman who walked into the side of a bus in the black-out, was crushed and killed...

A 1948 autopsy specimen from a woman aged 53 years, who had had difficulty in swallowing for about eight years before...