Science Podcasts

This week's question endeavours to find the answer to the footpath conundrum - how do worms survive in the rain?...

What makes bruises disappear, how do you date a fossil, how can orchids make themselves smell like bees and how do they...

Do cats have a sixth sense? How do dogs moult? Why are some hairs longer than others? Why do women get hot flushes? We...

This week we explore the science behind our weather to find out if droughts could be predicted to help relief efforts...

Dubnium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Why do boomerangs return? How do painkillers know where to go? Are some painkillers faster than others? Why do men have...

This week we solve the mystery of how our arteries form and find out about a new powder from pigs in South Africa that...

Mendelevium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

With a question we can really get out teeth into, we explore why a dog's mouth might be cleaner then a human'...

In this Newsflash, we find out why the Asian monsoon season sends pollutants into the stratosphere, a new electrical...

Can you steer a hurricane? In this week's weather-focused Naked Scientists, we find out how aeroplanes are...

In this weeks news we find out how mosquitoes could become flying vaccines and how bacterial fingerprints could soon...

How does lightning strike? Should we worry about radiation from mobile phone masts?

Is our galaxy home to aliens? Well, yes, but only if you're talking about clusters of stars. We find out how the...

In this podcast from the March Cafe Scientifique in Cambridge, we investigate how our brain takes shortcuts to...

Curium

Dr Paul Fletcher explains the science behind delusions...

This week's question is all about energy! Do our bodies manage to harvest all the energy from food or do we miss a...

In this week's NewsFlash, a new way to finger criminals using the trail of bacteria they leave behind, combating...

We dig into the science of farming this week with a look at how agriculture can adapt to a changing climate, how...

Could the Earth cope without the Moon, how do safety matches work, what causes hiccups, why don't frosts form...

This week we bring you the highlights from the world of science including why some of us feel pain more than others and...

Promethium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

How is it that the first farms, cities and writing all originated in Mesopotamia, now Iraq? We explore the so-called...