Science Podcasts

This week we amuse ourselves with the science of laughter. We find out why laughter is so contagious as well as find...

Chillies can be used for pain relief; why things smell the way they do; how arsenic exposure can be monitored in your...

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

This week, we search our own databanks to find out how much energy it takes to search for something on Google. Plus, we...

This week's NewsFlash sees celestial bulldozers, fossilised footprints and the first fish to ever have sex. Plus,...

UCL's Andrea Sella tells us about a pink coloured element that contributed to the birth of spectroscopy

This week we're seeking the science of laughter and music. We're speaking to comedian Robin Ince about how...

How do mobile phones work on planes? Is flying more environmentally friendly than driving? What is rocket fuel? Can we...

This week we venture into outer space to explore new galaxies and find out how medical scanning technology can be used...

We present the final outing of this twelveweek featuring the inscrutable Dr Otherford as he succeeds in his efforts...

In this special Question of the Week, we explore the reasons why trees, even when closely related an in the same...

In this NewsFlash we find out how to build a tolerance to peanuts and beat allergies, discover how fat the dinosaurs...

On this week's stellar Naked Scientists we're staring out into space. We find out how technology developed to...

How does the Earth rotate? Why do we not fall off the Earth as it spins? Why is there a periodic table? Why is Oxygen...

This week we open our hearts to the science of love to find out what goes on biologically to make humans monogamous as...

Andrea Sella, from UCL, talks about licking the M&M element gallium - something we would not recommend you try at...

We explore the hottest breakthroughs from the world of research. Plus in 'Stuff and Non-Science', does sugar...

The dexterous doctor fashions a circumstance of invisibility within a large Pyrex® basin by the witty employment of...

Chemistry World's Richard Van Noorden on the element that gave us spark proof tools for the oil industry and a...

The sins of the past, including chemical warfare; consuming desires for chocolate and finding the hidden Greek brothels...

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

Why should milk 'change it's tune' when it's being steamed? In this Question of the Week, we find...

For this week's NewsFlash, we hear about a new drug that helps heart failure patients to be more active, explore...

Katherine Holt of UCL admires diamond - carbon in its most glamorous form