Science Podcasts

Henrietta Lacks died in 1951, but her cells have gone on to become one of the most important tools in medicine....

The diminutive, one-time inhabitants of Flores are probably the most famous early humans from this area of the world...

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

In this month's Cafe Scientifique, Dr Luke Clarke from the University of Cambridge explores the effect gambling...

We work out what would happen if you shone a light whilst travelling at light speed. Would you see anything?

In this NewsFlash, we discover how sharks sniff out a snack, the genes that stop you from waking up to eat and the...

We celebrate 50 years of Lasers on the Naked Scientists this week, by looking into the history, and future, of laser...

How did HIV originate? Why does anaemia occur more often in Africa? Do growing pains exist? We take on these infectious...

This week, we find out how science and technology are improving security as well as television coverage at the 2010...

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

In our weekly quest for answers we discover how memories might be encoded in genes, though probably not the sort of...

How often do you clean your teeth? In this week's NewsFlash, we find out why clean teeth might mean a healthy...

The science of social species goes under the microscope this week. We hear what radio-tagging individual ants is...

How do Tornadoes form? What's a daisy cutter bomb? why do we get electric shocks when leaving our cars? We take on...

This month we enter the clinic to discover how clinicians at hospitals across the UK are using Diamond to investigate a...

This week we find out about a new initiative bringing together scientists, policy makers and development agencies...

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

What is it that sometimes makes micturating nasally irritating? Why does asparagus make your urine smell and why might...

We explore the oily threat to Tuna and a newly discovered way that blood vessels in the brain clear a blockage in this...

In this Naked Scientists Question and Answer show, we find out if bacteria will grow on a bar of soap, why bird poo is...

Does our sense of taste change with age? How are horrid and pleasant smells decided by our brains? Is it harder to...

This week, we find out how scientists in the US have created a synthetic, man-made organism which could benefit the...

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

Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest events in the Universe. They shine like beacons, revealing the existence of galaxies...