Science Podcasts

This week, we bring you the top stories from the world of science, including how insects splattered onto car...

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

We find out why we were told as kids not to sit too close to the television. Is there any scientific basis to the...

In this NewsFlash we hear how the genes of squished insects on your windscreen could help monitor biodiversity, take a...

The Nobel prizes feature on the Naked Scientists this week alongside a bumper crop of your science questions! We find...

This week we bring you the latest developments in cancer research to find out how beams of protons could be used to...

This week, Dr Dominic Ford joins Dave Ansell to take on your questions about our universe. They reveal whether it'...

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

We find out how sharks, proud owners of cartilaginous skeletons, make red blood cells without the aid of bone marrow.

In this NewsFlash, we discuss the role of aspirin in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, how recession could be healthy and...

This week, we catch up with the latest from the front line of cancer research. Kat Arney reports from the National...

Why is our peripheral vision so good in the dark? Why do we have goosebumps? Do UFOs exist and is there life on other...

This week, we fly up into the sky to peer into the lives of some brainy birds. We discover how cuckoos manage to...

This week, we find out how alcohol effects perception of risk vs reward in the adolescent brain and discover how...

We bring you the highlights from European Researchers Night 2009, which filled the Great North Museum with explosions,...

This week we're revealing the wonders of modern medicine to learn how science and technology is hoping to keep our...

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

Just what is the point to all those ridges and furrows set into our fingers, toes, palms and soles? We do some...

In the news this week; how green tea builds strong bones, the genes of prostate cancer, biofuels increasing ocean dead...

Join us in a peek at the secret lives of birds. We find out just how a cuckoo convinces others to care for it's...

Why do cameras use batteries so quickly? Why does warmth help a battery last longer? How do humans survive lightning...

This week we bring you the highlights from the British Science Festival including how scientists have been looking into...

We find out how the Romans got to grips with building a 73.5 mile-long wall, why humans were bejewelled 82,000 years...

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