Science Podcasts

Snoring, memories, boiling kettles and viral evolution all feature this week...

Will existing vaccines continue to work, and is the international community responding in the right way?

You may think of yourself a good hugger, but does science agree?...

NASA's DART mission begins the 6.8 million mile journey towards a head-on collision with an asteroid

Warmer city environments seem to be affecting the tree growth within them in unexpected ways...

Cities are heating faster than rest of the planet but what can we do about it?

Plastics are a notorious waste hazard but what role do they have to play in the climate crisis?

Why vaccination might be deciding the difference between Covid case rates in Europe and the UK...

The Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland is under pressure. What does the future hold?

Ants in your pants is no laughing matter...

We think of wood as medieval stuff, but what if it turned out to be the sustainable material of the future?

The next big leap for mankind in telescope terms, and the first all-woman spacewalk...

How we can build more sustainably and improve the urban environment we've inherited...

How do nations prevent collisions between spacecraft? Is there a space traffic control?

Does offloading thought processes onto apps diminish thinking power, and why are some people sluggish in the mornings...

Some vaccines confer lifelong protection, but Covid-19 protection wears off. Find out why...

A new milestone in nuclear fusion research was achieved at the largest laser facility in the world.

Dozing off outside of this window increases the risk of missing critical solar cues with knock on effects.....

.. and this is crucial for our ocean ecosystems

This month, we swim in the Antarctic, boggle at Californian condors, live on Mars and peer into our lungs

Is interfaith just slappy, clappy sarees, samosas and steel bands, or a serious engagement with difference?

Modified antibiotics use the immune system to become much more effective against otherwise resistant bacteria

The enigma of spinal cord regeneration, and what's the Universe expanding into?

Some very good dogs can identify individual words from a string of syllables