Science Podcasts

Plus, how smoking hijacks the brain's pleasure centres, and where Covid-19 came from...

What do creatures on Earth tell us about the limits on life from other planets? A new book explains...

Where does all the silk come from? Also signs the full moon affects human behaviour, and why we have a conscience...

A severe COVID risk factor in our genes; tracking the translatlantic slave trade; and a genetics video game...

When a pathogen jumps from an animal to a human, bad things can happen...

Recognising 20 years of continuous occupation of the ISS, we bring you 7 astronauts in one show...

The training you get at university will only last you 5 years now, so how do you keep current, post-Covid?

Chris is joined by palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger and BMJ editor Theo Bloom to dissect the latest science...

Do weight changes affect our bones, Also, why take a whale carcass to landfill?

As coronavirus cases surge again, we review the latest Covid-19 news...

Placing fresh fruit at eye level by the supermarket check-out counts as a nudge. But is nudge theory really a euphemism...

What exactly is a period? And why, in 2020, is period poverty such a problem?

We have adrenaline to send us into 'fight or flight' mode, and many insects are great at flight

Artificial intelligence reveals a better test for prostate cancer, and why the brain is stuffed with stem cells...

Gene "Bean" Baxter from Podcast Radio (and Radio Hall of Famer!) chats to Leigh Milner and Chris Berrow.

15,000 students are arriving for the new academic year at Cambridge University: what experience awaits them?

We discuss the situation, and hear toddlers have potbellies and whether free-divers get the bends?...

Welcome to the end of the universe. Which one will we get? We discuss astrophysicist Katie Mack's new book...

Should we reconcile our drive and ambition with a need for humility?

What would a more plant based diet mean for us, and the planet?

Listener Margaret noticed the difference between sweat when she exercises, and sweat when she's nervous...

Also,Covid outbreaks in Britain, and would a baby exposed to 5 languages from birth learn all of them...

Can we control animals' attention using magical techniques?

What's the difference between a state and a nation? And should nationalism play a part in spurring scientific...