Science Podcasts

A pot, from the old Wellcome collection, containing a slice of pig heart showing numerous thin walled cysticerci of...

A surgical diagnostic specimen from an East African patient presenting with unilateral inguinal lymphadenopathy and leg...

A 1963 autopsy specimen from a 21 year old woman with a three month history of weight loss, cough and occassional blood...

The specimen consists of transverse sections of a normal oesophagus (bottom) and seven others taken from patients who...

A 1963 autopsy specimen from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The specimen consists of a segment of sigmoid colon from an adult...

A 1971 autopsy specimen from the Dreadnought hospital comprising a partly hemisected testis showing multiple soft,...

Why does ice float in the cool summer drink of your choice? And why don't ponds and lakes freeze from the bottom...

Where do you have to go on the Earth to find the strongest pull of gravity? And where might one go to find the weakest?

In this NewsFlash, how wind speeds over the oceans are changing, successful synthesis of sperm cells and getting under...

Life in inaccessible places - including in caves sealed off from the Sun and around deep-sea vents - is the subject of...

Professor Jan Cilliers explains the mineral separation process to see how bubbles and foam can be used to get the...

The fate of soundwaves, can salamanders use silicon, why did the moon come closer to Earth, do you need to inhale to...

In this special edition of the Naked Astronomy podcast we look at the astronomical events held at the Cambridge Science...

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

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how the famous White Cliffs of Dover could be made of fish poo (at least...

In the absence of a giant ruler, how does one go about measuring how far the Earth is from a star? Simon Singh explains...

In this NewsFlash, we discover the role quartz plays in making mountain ranges, celebrate MESSENGER going successfully...

This week, we find out what lies beyond the limits of our Universe as we discuss multiverses, higher dimensions, string...

James Kay explains the workings of the Diamond synchrotron and the factors that need to be considered when engineering...

Should you keep your banana in the fridge? Why are ice-cubes easier to eject from top-shelf freezer trays? Why not site...

Mosquitoes can transmit deadly diseases like malaria.But could they pass on HIV if they drank from an infected person?...

This month: Aegean warriors in art; the most genetically diverse people in the world; prehistoric Californian seafarers...

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

What causes the rainbow of colours around an aircraft's shadow, why are moths and mosquitoes attracted to lights,...