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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...
16 February 2010
Thulium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
15 February 2010
Got an urgent call that needs to overcome virtually infinite gravity? This Question of the Week explores if mobile...
15 February 2010
In this NewsFlash, we explore how laser sensitive nanoparticles can help to identify tumours, what the genome of a 4000...
14 February 2010
We investigate the toilet habits of the animal kingdom this week as well as taking a pot shot at which way a dirty golf...
12 February 2010
Why does the earth spin? Is the moon moving farther away from earth? What are the odds of winning the lottery twice in...
12 February 2010
This week we discover what turns sperm 'on', investigate the true colour of dinosaurs and reveal how...
09 February 2010
Rutherfordium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
08 February 2010
We discover whether life in the Cretaceous period was as seasonal as it is today. Did dinosaurs put up with leaves on...
08 February 2010
We discover how sperm get turned on, how researchers can recreate colourful dinosaurs and how painstaking genetic...
07 February 2010
Could plastics be polluting your body? This week, we hear how hormone-mimicking chemicals leaching from plastics can...
07 February 2010
Can brain scanners enable us to open a new channel of communication with patients apparently in persistent vegetative...
05 February 2010
Does being hot under the collar ever lead to spontaneous combustion? Will we ever get smellovision? Does being ill make...
05 February 2010
This week we find out why it may be beneficial to run barefoot, how new high-tech sanners could home in on cancers and...
03 February 2010
Actinium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
01 February 2010
We find out if evaporation works in cold weather too! Is it worth using the tumble dryer, after all?
01 February 2010
We'll hear how a scanning technique can home in on the biochemical signature of prostate cancer in this Naked...
31 January 2010
The high-tech scanners that can home in on chemicals produced by cancers, how bats and dolphins share genes for...
29 January 2010
Explosives, Salmonella vaccines and homing pigeons...
29 January 2010
Why do buses get steamy, how do ships withstand super-waves, what's really invovled in balancing on a bike, how...
27 January 2010
Holmium podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
27 January 2010
In this podcast from the January Cafe Scientifique in Cambridge, we look into the threat of emerging infections to find...
25 January 2010
We find out whether a giant hulk of steel can disrupt a bird's navigation system. Would a 350,000 ton tanker do...
25 January 2010
We find out how to identify an exploding star in this edition of Naked Astronomy, with record holder and super...
25 January 2010
In this NewsFlash, we find out how infected cells increase the rate of infection, how plants choose their pollenators...