Latest Podcasts

Podcast: Continuing Professional Development for scientists
Added: 1 Jun 2021
Returning to our expert, Jessica Evans, a Member Recruitment Executive at The Royal Society of Chem…

Podcast: Biophilic building with Robert Hopkins
Added: 15 Feb 2021
Derived in 1964 by the social psychologist Erich Fromm, ‘biophilia’ means to love life. Taking over…

A sting in the tail... how venom is helping drug discovery in surprising ways with Steve Trim
Added: 17 Dec 2020
Drug discovery is a tough endeavour - but could nature offer a helping hand? I spoke to Steve Trim,…

T'is the season - get festive with the Royal Institution Christmas lecturers
Added: 3 Dec 2020
In this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, three scientists from different field…

Enabling your best self - Professional development in science
Added: 9 Nov 2020
If you work in science then you are already highly skilled – very highly skilled. That doesn't nece…

Medicinal rollercoasters and life-saving bras - It's the Ig Nobel Prizes with Marc Abrahams
Added: 19 Oct 2020
I spoke to Marc Abrahams, founder of the barmy-but-brilliant Ig Nobel Prizes – which every year ho…

Biology in space with NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins
Added: 28 Sep 2020
It's not everyday you get to chat to an Astronaut - especially one who is about to head up on a six…

Socially distanced lobsters... Covid-19 and the landscape of disgust
Added: 21 Sep 2020
Social distancing is still the main way we have of fending off Covid-19. It has been hard and very …

Laboratory News Podcast - Rhythmical rats and scientific gin
Added: 7 Sep 2020
Its only a bloomin' party episode! And what makes a party really tick? Why music and alcohol of cou…

Physics at home and making medicine from hibernating animals
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Something of a double-header for you in this episode. I spoke to a physicist who managed to create …

Physics at home and making medicine from hibernating animals
Added: 13 Aug 2020
Something of a double-header for you in this episode. I spoke to a physicist who managed to create …

Laboratory News podcast - life on the back of a turtle with Dr Jeroen Ingels
Added: 5 Aug 2020
"I didn't realise that it is basically impossible to stop a turtle physically... it just rolls you …

Laboratory News Podcast with with astrophysicist Christopher Conselice
Added: 28 Jul 2020
Just how many intelligent civilisations, if you were pressed, would you say exist - or indeed exist…

Laboratory News Podcast with Virologist Dr Sarah Pitt
Added: 6 Jul 2020
The brilliant Dr Sarah Pitt - virologist at the Univeristy of Brighton and Chief Virology Examiner …

Laboratory News Podcast episode #1
Added: 18 Jun 2020
How do you record one of the most notoriously shy animals on the planet? Accidentally...
Geophysic…