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Science Weekly podcast: Will climate change unleash geological mayhem? Volcanologist Bill McGuire describes how rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets as a result of climate change could trigger volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamisAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieIain Chambers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Transplants and the future of intensive care Where next for human-to-human transplants and intensive care? Plus, scientific censorship, and the Piltdown Man hoaxAlok JhaIain ChambersKevin FongRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Very large telescopes Alok Jha describes his visit to the European Southern Observatory in the Atacama desert, home of some of the world's most astonishing telescopesAlok JhaIain Chambers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Immortal cells and the search for ET Alok Jha delves through the Science Weekly archive to find some of our most memorable interviewsAlok JhaIan SampleJames RandersonJason PhippsOlivia JudsonPaul Davies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Playing God with nature Dr Adam Rutherford introduces his new BBC documentary about the powerful new technology of synthetic biologyAlok JhaRobin McKieAdam RutherfordJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Stephen Hawking at 70 Alok Jha reports from Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday symposium at the University of Cambridge, with excerpts from Hawking's address on SundayAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Triumph and tragedy of Scott's Last Expedition Historian Edward J. Larson discusses the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition and we get a sneak preview of the forthcoming Scott exhibition at the Natural History Museum in LondonAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Bruce Hood has Christmas lectures on the brain Professor of psychology Bruce Hood introduces his Royal Institution Christmas lecture series 'Meet the Brain'Alok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Best of 2011, including death, evil and dark matter Among the high points of 2011 were Stephen Hawking on death, Simon Baron-Cohen on evil, the final shuttle mission and dark matterAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: An accelerated guide to the Higgs boson LHC physicist Prof Jon Butterworth provides a super-condensed course in quantum mechanics, particle physics and the Standard ModelAlok JhaIan SampleJon ButterworthJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Durban climate change talks – deal or no deal? What are the prospects of the Durban climate change talks setting a limit on global carbon emissions? Plus, Simon Frantz gives his top tips on how to receive a Nobel prize in styleJason PhippsAlok JhaRobin McKieDuncan Clark Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Your beating heart In association with the British Heart Foundation, we present an overview of how the human heart works and cutting-edge research into regenerating the organ after a heart attackAlok JhaJason PhippsKevin FongPascal Wyse Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Understanding the brain Alok Jha and Ian Sample investigate our understanding of the brainAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: The inscrutable brain Bryan Appleyard on the 'vastly inflated claims' of neuroscience, and Richard Holmes on the contenders for this year's Royal Society science book prizeAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Steven Pinker on the neuroscience of violence Steven Pinker on violence and the human brain, Boaz Almog on quantum levitation, and part two of Lawrence Krauss's wickedly informative lecture on Cosmological ConnectionsAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Steven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature The internationally renowned scientist and science writer Steven Pinker talks to Alok Jha about his new bookAlok Jha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Seven billion people – and their place in the cosmos Author Fred Pearce discusses the role of science in population growth and Lawrence Krauss delivers an insightful and humorous talk on our cosmic insignificanceAlok JhaFred PearceJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: How Columbus changed the biology of Earth Science writer Charles Mann reveals the seismic impact of Columbus on the ecology of the old and new worlds, and we unravel the science behind the new vaccine for malariaAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: The carbon nanotechnology revolution Professor Ravi Silva believes we're about to experience a new industrial revolution, driven by nanotechnology and carbonAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Celebrating all things Nobel and Ig Nobel Alok Jha is joined by Simon Frantz from Nobel Prize Watch to round up the 2011 Nobel and Ig Nobel winnersAlok JhaJason PhippsIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Science Uncovered at the Natural History Museum The team went back to nature in South Kensington to record a show in front of a live audience at the museumAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: The hunt for dark matter A fifth of our universe is missing. Professor Carlos Frenk of Durham University explains his quest to find the elusive dark matter that holds galaxies togetherAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: The hunt for dark matter A fifth of our universe is missing. Professor Carlos Frenk of Durham University explains his quest to find the elusive dark matter that holds galaxies togetherAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: British Science Festival 2011 special Dark matter, microwave biomass recycling and the economic benefits of happiness were among the highlights of this year's British Science Festival in BradfordAlok JhaJason PhippsNathan Green Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Dava Sobel on Copernicus Alok Jha meets the author of the worldwide bestseller Longtitude to discuss her latest book, on the life of CopernicusAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: The science of human attraction Camila Ruz investigates the genetics of attraction and how one particular set of genes may be influencing everything from whom we choose as a partner to whether a pregnancy is successfulJason PhippsCamila Ruz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Blogging the brain, and the sounds of space Neurophilosophy blogger Mo Costandi takes us on a tour of the brain and astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell reveals the surprising sounds of spaceMo CostandiAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Mammalian extinctions and malarial resistance Alok Jha delves into mammalian extinctions and malarial resistanceAlok JhaIan SampleJason PhippsCamila Ruz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Man's best friend? In Defence of Dogs Alok Jha meets John Bradshaw to talk dogsAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: GM drugs, Juno and Jupiter Professor Julian Ma discusses his research using GM plants to produce antiviral HIV drugs, and Nasa scientist Jack Connerney tells us about the Juno spacecraft launched on Friday on a mission to probe the mysterious planet JupiterAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Hearing is believing In a special edition devoted to how our brains make sense of what our ears are telling us, Alok Jha talks to Sophie Scott about how the brain filters sounds, and to Roland Schaette about tinnitusPhil MaynardAlok Jha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: The science of sleep and circadian rhythms In an extended interview with Prof Russell Foster of Oxford University, Alok Jha probes the inner workings of our daily sleep-wake cycleAlok JhaJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: The God Species by Mark Lynas Author and environmental activist Mark Lynas discusses his new book The God Species and we visit this year's Royal Society Summer Science ExhibitionAlok JhaJason PhippsMark Lynas Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Sounds of the space shuttle - an acoustic tribute As the programme draws to a close, Piers Sellers and Scott Altman describe what it was like to fly on the space shuttle - and we recreate the soundsIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Anarchy in the laboratory - the wild side of science Michael Brooks discusses his book about mavericks in science, Free Radicals, and Brian Switek declares his love of the dinosaur with the publication of Written in StoneNell BoaseJason PhippsRobin McKieBrian SwitekMichael Brooks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: How to achieve success through failure Tim Harford talks science and success, and Alok Jha attends the Bright Club comedy night where sperm featured in one scientist's stand-up routineAlok JhaIan SampleNell BoaseJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Alok Jha talks human evolution with Chris Stringer Alok Jha talks human evolution with Chris StringerAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Mending broken hearts and nerves We meet researchers who have identified ingenious ways to repair tissue damage once thought to be irreversible in heart disease and multiple sclerosisAlok JhaIan SampleFiona HarveyJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: The science of watching films Psychologist and film buff Tim Smith explains how the best directors make people pay attention in movies and why Hollywood is getting interested in science to make its films betterAlok JhaIan SampleNell BoaseJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Climate science, transparency and harassment Sir Paul Nurse talks to Alok Jha about the misuse of Freedom of Information requests to harass climate scientistsAlok JhaIan SampleJason Phipps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Science fiction, and the age of astronomy Author of The Sky's Dark Labyrinth Stuart Clarke explores the early days of astronomy. Plus, Ian Sample discusses his explosive interview with Stephen Hawking, and we review a new science fiction exhibitionAlok JhaIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: The human era, and war without tears Have humans changed the Earth to such an extent, we have created a new geological era: the Anthropocene? Plus, the uses of neuroscience in warAlok JhaIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: The power of the virus, and supercooperators Carl Zimmer introduces his new book A Planet of Viruses, and Harvard professor of biology and mathematics Martin Nowak lauds the role of cooperation in evolutionAlok JhaIan SampleJason PhippsNell Boase Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Simon Baron-Cohen on empathy and evil Simon Baron-Cohen talks to Ian Sample about his proposal that we should redefine 'evil' as an absence of empathyIan SampleSimon Baron-Cohen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Our place in the cosmos, and a test for empathy Author of The Address Book, Tim Radford, answers the perennial question, where are we? Plus, Simon Baron-Cohen discusses a scientific test for measuring empathyAlok JhaIan SampleJason PhippsRobin McKieTim Radford Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Podcast: Antibiotic resistance and the eater of time Darwinian evolution and antibiotic resistance; a new time machine; and the growing controversy surrounding shale gas extractionNell BoaseIan SampleFiona HarveyJason PhippsRebecca Hill Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Middle-aged brains and information overload New York Times science editor Barbara Strauch describes the surprising abilities of a middle-aged mind; James Gleick on information overload; plus, the latest in our series of unanswerable questionsAndy DuckworthRebecca Hill Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Hard-wired prejudices, and 50 years in space David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space; plus, Brian Greene asks this week's 'Hannaford question'Nell BoaseAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: What is 'the self' and where exactly is it? We attempt to explain 'the self' with Julian Baggini; Tim Flannery tells us how love can save the environment; and Brian Cox answers the 'Hannaford question'Alok JhaNell BoaseIan SampleAndy DuckworthJulian BagginiTim Flannery Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Mathematics special + Brian Cox = science2 Bowing to popular demand, here's our mathematical special. No calculators allowed. As an added bonus, physicist and star of the small screen Brian Cox dropped byAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell Boase Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Just how many universes are there? Brian Greene claims that every decision we make creates a parallel universe - and the proof is in the maths; plus, we join Tim Jackson as he takes a Q&A session on whether rampant consumerism is ruining our livesAlok JhaAndy DuckworthJames Kingsland Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Why scientists love Germany We visit the European Space Agency's operations centre, and get a taste of some of the most exciting research being carried out in GermanyAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: What became of Beagle 2? The man who lost Beagle 2; Lester Brown on food bubbles; new research into Alzheimer's; a mission to Mercury; and responding to national emergenciesAlok JhaAndy DuckworthRobin McKieIan SampleLester BrownDamian CarringtonColin Pillinger Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: AAAS 2011, drugs and the sound of the stars The highlights of this year's AAAS science festival in Washington DC, professor David Nutt explains his latest research on reclassifying drugs; plus, the sound of the starsAndy DuckworthAlok JhaJames RandersonIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra podcast: Nasa astronaut Jeff Hoffman Former Nasa astronaut Jeff Hoffman reflects on 30 years of the space shuttle (extended interview)Andy DuckworthAlok Jha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Electric cars, the space shuttle and yeast Shai Agassi's vision of a green future; former Nasa astronaut Jeff Hoffman reflects on 30 years of the shuttle; and the sex life of yeastAlok JhaAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: The birds and the bees (X-rated version) Nature's most intimate sexual secrets; Peter Atkins on the limits of science; plus, why chemistry often gets overlookedAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Ham the astrochimp and the LHC keeps going It's 50 years since the first ape went into space; why the LHC isn't going to shut down for a year; Alok's first book; and Isabella Rossellini on her Green PornosAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseIan SampleRobin McKieHenry Nicholls Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Ham the astrochimp and the LHC keeps going It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the LHC isn't going to shut down for a year; Alok's first book; and Isabella Rossillini on her Green PornosAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseIan SampleRobin McKieHenry Nicholls Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: The next generation supercomputer How new technologies will boost your laptop; how Ikea makes you buy stuff you don't need; plus, new evidence questioning the Out Of Africa theoryIan SampleAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: How blogs are changing science From Science Online 2011, we take an extended look at the world of blogging and its role in modern scienceAlok JhaAndy DuckworthEd Yong Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Monitoring climate change in the Antarctic We dial up researchers looking at climate change in Antarctica; plus, Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge QuestionAndy DuckworthAlok JhaNell BoaseRobin McKieClay Shirky Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Why a meteor strike could be good for us The benefits of Earth being hit by a meteor; the secret world of turtles; and the effect of women's tears on menAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleNell BoaseRobin McKieMonica Desai Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Christmas at the Large Hadron Collider As the LHC goes into hibernation for the winter, we visit the Atlas experiment to ask, will 2011 be the year of the Higgs?Andy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: Size Matters We join the production crew for a rehearsal of one of this year's Christmas Lectures at the Royal InstitutionAlok JhaAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The great arsenic bacteria backlash The global reaction to Nasa's arsenic bacteria research; plus, Dr Petra Boynton expose some dating mythsAndy DuckworthAlok JhaRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guardian Focus: The Cancún climate change conference Examining the climate change compromises, emission deals and fallout from WikiLeaks at COP16 in CancúnJames RandersonJohn VidalMichael JacobsAndy DuckworthPeter SaleSuzanne GoldenbergGeorge Monbiot Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The arsenic bacterium that could help find life in outer space An arsenic-loving bacterium; an augmented reality dinosaur; what your finger-length means; and should science journals be free?Alok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseRobin McKieAleks Krotoski Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Memory on trial Can we trust the memory of court witnesses?; a sneak preview of a new climate science exhibition; oxygen tasted on another world; and 'evidence' we can see into the futureAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseIan SampleChris French Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Saving pandas, tigers and tortoises Are giant pandas really endangered? Glastonbury goes solar, the best physics on the web, tiger droppings, plus sounds from the Large Hadron ColliderAndy DuckworthAlok JhaIan SampleSteven MorrisHenry Nicholls Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Getting high and the threat of climate war Mind-altering drugs; War as a consequence of climate change; Why some areas of science are too difficult to explain through sound alone; plus, next month's Guardian science book clubAlok JhaAndy DuckworthFrancesca PanettaTim Radford Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Testing fear, panic and arousal in cinemagoers The physiology of panic, fear and arousal in cinema-goers; the evolutionary psychology of leadership; plus, robonauts and holographic communicationsAndy DuckworthAlok JhaIan SampleNell BoaseRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The Book of Human Life - second edition The first map of human genetic variation; homeopathy on the NHS; the space shuttle; a 'liberal gene'; plus, an eco-tour of Hampstead HeathAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleNell BoaseRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Tomorrow's World, Maggie Philbin and James Randi Maggie Philbin discusses science books and Tomorrow's World; plus, James Randi and PZ Myers at TAM LondonNell BoaseAndy DuckworthIan SampleAleks KrotoskiBrian Cox Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Rebuilding HMS Beagle, and Hubble's 20th birthday Recreating Charles Darwin's ship; how to dial the space station; Hubble turns 20; Arabic science; and Stephen Hawking at the Albert HallNell BoaseAndy DuckworthIan SampleAlok JhaJim Al-KhaliliKaren James Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Week: Nobel prizewinner Andre Geim, and Steve Jones on incest 2010 Nobel prizewinner Andre Geim speaks to the pod, Brian Cox takes us around Cern, and we investigate the science of incestAlok JhaAndy DuckworthRobin McKieNell BoaseIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Bugs, bowels and bats How dangerous are the bacteria lurking in our homes? Is a vaccine against diarrhoea a realistic prospect? Plus: an insight into the sex lives of fruit batsAlok JhaIain ChambersIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Hyperthermia, and solving murder with insects Can extreme cooling bring people back from the dead? How hyperthermia might end up being useful in intensive care patients; and Jon Henley meets real life crime scence investigators who are solving murders in the UK, by studying insects.Alok JhaIain ChambersJon HenleyMonica Desai Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: What the brain can and can't do We delve into the mysteries of the mind; plus, are we reaching the limits of what humans can understand?Caspar Llewellyn SmithAlok JhaAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough and algae Science Weekly: Algae make environmentally friendly fuel; science funding cuts; plus, Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough in conversationAlok JhaJames RandersonIan SampleIain Chambers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Scientists slug it out Scientific rivalry; a museum makeover; the Tevatron's stay of execution; and Stephen Hawking coming out as an atheistNell BoaseAndy DuckworthRobin McKieIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: We are on a break Sorry, no programme this week, but we're back next weekAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Questioning gravity The big questions about our universe; a sex scientist; zombie ants; plus, is the moon really getting smaller?Alok JhaAndy DuckworthJames RandersonIan SampleHeather Christie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Superheroes – a warning The downside of superheroes; decision-making in ant colonies; a scan for autism; plus, has P=NP been solved?Andy DuckworthAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieNell Boase Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Superheroes – a warning The downside of of superheroes; decision-making in ant colonies; a scan for autism; plus, has P=NP been solved?Andy DuckworthAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieNell Boase Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Elon Musk's mission to Mars A tour of Elon Musk's rocket factory; grow your own underpants; an emotional robot; plus, how to tan your bumAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseIan SampleRobin McKiePaul Harris Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Cern, space and sniffing The woman behind Cern's Atlas experiment; the Rosetta mission's stunning pictures of asteroid Lutetia; and communicating by sniffingAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieIain Chambers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Why you should distrust your senses Our fallible senses; newly reunited footage and audio of Apollo 11 mission control; plus, how comics are being used in medicine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Will our oceans ever recover? Protecting the oceans; how stray dogs helped Russia in the space race; Tutankhamun goes online; and the Guardian's Climategate debateAlok JhaAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: A postcard of our universe Cosmic microwave background, string theory, Britain's early ancestors; plus a shape-shifting exhibitAlok JhaIan SampleAndy DuckworthDavid AdamHeather Christie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The carbon footprint of everything Do carbon footprints help change behaviour; music composed using DNA code; and Simon Jenkins on 'SpoofJenks'Alok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieNell BoaseAndy DuckworthSimon Jenkins Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: End of the world news The BBC's David Shukman, the Guardian's hack day, mobile phone masts and cancer, and patenting genesAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The 'immortal' Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot tells us about the intriguing story of Henrietta Lacks; and an interview with British astronaut Tim PeakeAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The man behind the Large Hadron Collider The former director general of Cern reveals how the decision to build the Large Hadron Collider was madeAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleJames RandersonFred Pearce Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: The truth about the climategate emails Fred Pearce discusses his new book on the UEA hacked emails sagaFred PearceJames RandersonAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: It's all about altitude at World Cup 2010 How altitude and the ball will affect World Cup results; 10 years of the Human Genome Project; and 520 days in a tin canAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKieJohn Sulston Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Live: What makes a genius? Recorded live at London's Science Museum, Alok Jha and the panel explore what it means to be a geniusAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseIan SampleBen Kape Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The world's first artificial life form Alok Jha and an expert panel discuss the significance of Craig Venter's creation of artificial lifeAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Craig Venter announces a synthetic life form The full-length press conference at which Craig Venter announced the creation of a synthetic life formAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Changing our bodies Cosmetic surgery's latest intimate trend, a memory-making exhibition and Britain's new science ministerAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKieSusie Orbach Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Changing our bodies Cosmetic surgery's intimate new trend, a memory-making exhibition and Britain's new science ministerAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKieSusie Orbach Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: At the edge of physics Physics in the world's most extreme locations; the UK election's impact on science. Plus: do wildlife documentaries infringe animals' privacy?Alok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseIan SampleMartin Robbins Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Election special ... science policy and the battle of the apes Science policy at the general election; how asteroids helped start life on Earth; and the response of chimps to deathCarole Jahme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Brain scans in the theatre and volcanic ash in jet engines Alok Jha and guests discuss the new play Interior Traces; climate change and the general election; and volcanic ashAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieJames Randerson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: On the autopsy table Pathologists; a victory on the road to libel reform; the climate email scandal; and the latest thinking on geo-engineeringNell BoaseAndy DuckworthRobin McKieJames Randerson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Smellycast The complex world of odours; what the outcome of Britain's general election could mean for science; and an unknown human ancestorNell BoaseAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: What are animals thinking? Do pets have emotions, what's next for the Large Hadron Collider, and using YouTube to debunk myths climate change deniersAndy DuckworthNell BoaseJames RandersonAdam Vaughan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Lift off for the UK Space Agency Quantum information, the UK's very own Nasa, the Templeton prize controversy and a rainforest at London ZooNell BoaseAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The world's funniest joke The science of laughter, the latest Imax film, and what future technology might look likeAndy DuckworthNell Boase Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: New ways to find aliens Why there's an eerie silence from outer space; Rick Potts on the origins of humans; plus the use of sound in theatreAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Paul Davies on the search for ET Alok Jha and Robin McKie speak to astrophysicist Paul Davies from Seti - the Search for Extraterrestrial IntelligenceAlok JhaAndy DuckworthRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Are Britain's libel laws stifling science worldwide? Simon Singh on how our libel laws suppress academic debate; music of the telescopes; and the importance of being vagueAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseSimon SinghIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Are Britain's libel laws stifling science worldwide? How Britain's libel laws are stifling academic debate; music made with telescopes; and being vagueAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseSimon SinghIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Brian Cox's Wonders of the Solar System Rockstar physicist Brian Cox discusses his new TV series. Plus: the Flat Earth Society; AAAS; and Lord Robert WinstonNell BoaseIan SampleDavid AdamAndy DuckworthRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly podcast: Can you have too many friends? Why humans need friends and the optimum number to have; plus, science's flawed relationship with the mediaAlok JhaAndy DuckworthDavid AdamRobin McKieDesmond Tutu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Why don't we 'remember' the future? Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explains why the river of time only flows in one directionIan SampleAlok JhaAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Why humans make music Alok Jha and guests discuss what makes music so fascinating; Britain's plans for space; and the nature of timeAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Obama pulls the plug on Nasa's moon ambitions Nasa aborts its mission to the moon; reaction speeds in gunfights; plus, is the MMR controversy at an end?Alok JhaAndy DuckworthRobin McKieIan SampleKevin Fong Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guardian Daily: Climate science under siege Following a special investigation by the Guardian this week, we discuss the hacked climate change emails at the University of East Anglia, and the issue of trust in the global warming debateMatt WellsPhil MaynardSuzanne GoldenbergJames RandersonDavid Adam Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Our evolutionary agony aunt and Frank Drake Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt dishes out some relationship advice, why Earth is hiding from aliens, and ginger dinosaursAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleRobin McKieCarole Jahme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra podcast: Kennedy v coal baron A debate on mountaintop mining between Bobby Kennedy Jr and Don Blankenship of Massey EnergyAndy DuckworthSuzanne Goldenberg Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Evolution's greatest hits, and ancient Muslim science Sex, death and consciousness are among author Nick Lane's top 10 evolutionary breakthroughs. 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The sacking of David Nutt; fading hopes for the Copenhagen climate change talks; and the moment the LHC broke downAlok JhaAndy DuckworthRobin McKieDavid Adam Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: The big bang at the LHC Lynn Evans relives the moment he found out something had gone horribly wrong with the LHCIan SampleAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The money behind science Alok Jha looks at how research is funded, Nasa's latest launch and a song about climate changeAlok JhaAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Uranium wars Alok Jha looks at the power of uranium, a new climate change map and synthetic vocal chordsAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleDavid AdamJames Randerson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Climate change map unveiled Listen to the entire launch event of the government's 4C climate change mapAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Wet weekends Alok Jha discusses weather forecasting, developments in the human genome project, cancer research, eco nuns and comedy in scienceAlok JhaIan SampleAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Penisology Ed Sykes speaks about the science of mating, Nobel prize winner Thomas Steitz and the LCROSS impactNell BoaseAndy DuckworthIan SampleDavid Adam Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Extrasolar planets and dark energy Our podcast this week is dedicated to the Year of Astronomy, and Ardi, our oldest human-like ancestorNell BoaseAndy DuckworthIan Sample Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The paranormal Paranormal beliefs; war music; the location of the 'self'; moon water; and how a film duped a science editorIan SampleAndy DuckworthDavid AdamChris FrenchFrancesca PanettaCaspar Melville Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Darwin and Dawkins Alok Jha and guests discuss creationism, Richard Dawkins' latest book and the new Darwin biopic CreationAlok JhaAndy DuckworthNell BoaseJames RandersonCaspar MelvilleRichard LeaAriane Sherine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins tells Richard Lea about some of the science in his new book on evolution, The Greatest Show on EarthRichard LeaAndy Duckworth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: British Science Festival 2009 Alok Jha on the Royal Society science book prize, the British Science Festival, the new Darwin Centre and Bristol's silent buildingAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleSteven Morris Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Beatboxing and the Pestival Alok Jha and guests discuss electric voice music, the Pestival insect exhibition and the 10:10 climate change campaignAlok JhaAndy DuckworthIan SampleAlison Benjamin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: You Cannot Be Serious! Professor Colin Blakemore describes his experiences as a hate figure for animal rights protestors. 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Alok Jha learns about aliens, love hormones, leaf power, nuclear fusion and anomalistic psychologyAlok JhaNell BoaseDavid AdamAndy DuckworthKevin Anderson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Backing up the Earth's biodiversity The importance of freezing seeds, the carbon footprint of babies, and whether festival-goers are interested in quantum physicsAlok JhaAndy DuckworthJames RandersonJames Kingsland Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The secrets of the cell and solar aeroplanes We tell the story of cells from their discovery in the 17th century to the present, with cells being engineered to order. Plus, Bertrand Piccard explains his passion for solar-powered flight Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Jonathon Porritt criticises UK's climate change policy Environmentalist Jonathon Porritt on the politics of climate change; and Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, on possibly the greatest science documentary series ever made - Cosmos Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Rise of the biological machines Paul Freemont describes a future in which purpose-built organisms manufacture chemicals and drugs to order. Plus, we talk to the man whose job it is to get Nasa back to the moon and beyond Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Nasa's vision for the future Dr John Olson from Nasa discusses America's plans for manned missions to the moon and Mars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: In search of time Science writer Dan Falk is on hand to discuss the neuroscience, the physics and the philosophy of time. Plus the Royal Society Summer Exhibition and why vegetarians outlive carnivores Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Apollo 11 special Forty years on from the first moon landing, we take you on a tour of the technical achievements, the cultural impact and the future of lunar exploration with our guest, Apollo 11's biggest fan, Chris Riley Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aliens and the future of planet Earth Astronomer Royal Martin Rees discusses the prospects for Earth, humankind … and extraterrestrials Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Charles Darwin - man of letters Charles Darwin loved poetry, but most of all he liked a good novel. Ruth Padel, Steve Jones and Gillian Beer look at his literary tastes and writing style Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly with Michio Kaku: Impossibility is relative Michio Kaku claims that the science fiction of Star Trek is closer to reality than we might think Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker Tim Radford talks to Ian Sample about the joys of the Guardian Science Book Club and this month's title, The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Fossil Ida and the astronaut Adam Rutherford from Nature discusses the media reaction to the discovery of fossil Ida, and we find out more about Timothy Peake - Britain's first official astronaut Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Hay Festival special Nicholas Stern, Anthony Giddens and Marcus Brigstocke look on the bright side of climate change action, Astronomer Royal and Royal Society president Martin Rees discusses extraterrestrial life, and Steve Jones shares his Darwin reading list Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Why do we still disagree about climate change? Mike Hulme, a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, proposes a radical change in the way we talk about global warming Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Dr Alice Roberts on her Incredible Human Journey We discuss a new TV series that traces how humans left Africa to colonise the world, there's a hype-free look at swine flu, and a visit to the new Butterfly Jungle at the Natural History Museum Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Nicholas Stern's Blueprint for a Safer Planet lecture at the London School of Economics Lord Stern outlines the climate change crisis and how we can solve it in a lecture at the London School of Economics on 21 April 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Amazing plastic brains Psychiatrist Norman Doidge extols the brain's capacity to re-mould itself, and explains how it copes with monogamy and internet porn. Plus, Baroness Greenfield clarifies her remarks about the effect on the brain of social networking; and a scientist who's making a stand against violent animal rights campaigners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Christopher Potter's history of the universe The editor tells us what he's learned from working on some of the most popular science books of all time, and his own book You Are Here. Plus, words that have crossed from science fiction to science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Sceptical thinking makes a comeback Our new columnist Chris French discusses the surprise resurgence of scepticism. Plus, Barack Obama's adviser Harold Varmus reveals the White House's attitude to science; and the row over biochar smoulders on Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Meet the mind-reader Nasa climate scientist Jim Hansen on why democracy isn't working, Demis Hassabis on the neuroscience of computer gaming and biological engineering with Drew Endy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: How the brain decides Jonah Lehrer discusses how the brain makes decisions, and how we can all learn to make better ones. Plus, cosmic inflation and the ethics of experimentation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Olivia Judson on the importance of daring experiments The biologist and author discusses why scientists need to take risks. Plus, faith and particle physics, and why doodling in meetings shows you're really concentrating Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: the Indiana Jones of conservation We speak to the Indiana Jones of conservation, Lawrence Anthony; physicist Paul Davies tells us why aliens could be among us; and we groove to a rap on climate change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Happy birthday Darwin! We travel the country for Darwin-led debate, and hear from Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the Blair government Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Love by numbers The statistics behind relationships, Ray Kurzweil, 'Google Ocean', plus the world's biggest snake Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Superstition and belief Professor Robert Park on religion and Barack Obama, plus producer Andy becomes a zoo keeper for a day Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Professor Robert Park Professor Robert Park discusses religion, the Templeton Foundation, and Barack Obama Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: War of the sexes The differences between males and females, plus Barack Obama's promise to 'restore science to its rightful place' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Does rule learning make us human? Alok Jha and the team discuss animal rule learning, life on Mars and Victorian novels, and go behind the scenes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Behind the scenes at Jodrell Bank James Randerson explores the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: What has the Islamic world ever done for science? Jim Al-Khalili discusses science in the Islamic world, the Atheist Bus Campaign, and autism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The Guardian's new green HQ A tour around our new eco-friendly building at King's Cross in London Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Christmas lectures Recorded at London's Royal Institution, Chris Bishop discusses his Christmas lectures on the future of computing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Future foods The new GM food exhibition at London's Science Museum Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Code-breaking challenge The Enigma cipher machine, encryption, plus games designed using space technology Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The pub quiz maths challenge Professor Ian Stewart challenges you to number puzzles as he discusses the mathematics of plants Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: The pub quiz answers The answers to Science Weekly's pub quiz maths challenge Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: How to save the planet Chris Goodall on green technologies; advances in medicine through war; classifying drugs; and lizard push-ups Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Christmas with the atheists Robin Ince and Caspar Melville look at what an atheist's Christmas might be like Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: A tribute to Nasa's Phoenix lander John Gribbin helps discuss the death of a Martian probe, fertility developments, and Charles Darwin's beard Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Google Flu Trends Jeremy Ginsberg is one of the engineers on the Google Flu Trends project Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Does Barack Obama do science? Opinion from both sides of The Atlantic on what Barack Obama's election means for science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Astronaut Richard Garriott American space tourist Richard Garriott tells Ian Sample what it's like to be blasted into space in a Soyuz capsule, and crashing back to Earth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Improvisation and creativity Mark Lythgoe discusses improvisation and the creative mind; plus Richard Garriott on space tourism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Marcus du Sautoy steps into Dawkins' boots Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy talks about his new job as chair for the public understanding of science at the University of Oxford Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: David Rooney, the time lord Alok Jha speaks to David Rooney,the curator of time at the Royal Observatory Greenwich Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Kerry Emanuel on hurricanes Alok Jha discusses tropical cyclones with MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The story of maths Leading mathematician Marcus du Sautoy is in the pod, plus we discuss the Nobel winners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Invisibility cloaks - the real story Invisibility cloaks, time travel and the psychology behind taste. Hosted by Alok Jha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Extreme weather Alok Jha and the science team ask if global warming is producing more hurricanes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 'Mistakes were made over GM' Matt Genge joins us to discuss the science minister's comments on GM crops; KT Tunstall's Arctic trip; plus a green petrol car Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: BA Festival of Science 2008 James Randerson presents a special podcast from the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool, plus the LHC switch on at Cern Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: The LHC goes live Ian Sample reports from Cern as the world's biggest experiment is switched on Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Iain Stewart on climate change Geologist Iain Stewart discusses climate change and the media, dire warnings from the government's former chief scientist David King, plus a trip around the Natural History Museum's new 'cocoon' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: The Natural History Museum's new 'cocoon' We take a look around the new eight-storey 'cocoon' at the Natural History Museum Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Ben Goldacre on bad science The Guardian's Bad Science columnist, Ben Goldacre, discusses homeopathy, nutritionists, and the placebo effect Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: Marcus Chown on quantum physics Radio astronomer Marcus Chown discusses spinning electrons and his book Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You with Alok Jha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The solace of quantum physics Ben Goldacre and Marcus Chown discuss homeopathy, quantum physics, science coverage in the media, as well as world happiness Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Yoghurt pot robots Alok Jha presents a Newsjam special. We discuss the MoD's Grand Challenge; the ExoMars rover; personalised drugs; Prince Charles and GM crops; biofuel bugs; Harun Yahya; homeopathy; plus an invisibility cloak Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Emergency on Planet Earth James Randerson and the team ask Prof Bill McGuire if it's already too late to save the planet. Plus, a switch-on date for the LHC. And the woman who cloned her pet pit bull Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Magic, the brain, and doping at the Olympics Magical insights into the workings of the brain; doping at the Olympics; the drugs that could make exercise redundant; and particle physics meets hip hop Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: How to Build Your Own Spaceship Alok Jha speaks to Piers Bizony about the future of personal space travel. Plus, behind the scenes at an animal research lab. A cure for hayfever. And bees doing the waggle dance Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Embryos, monkeys and Mars Lisa Jardine, the new head of the HFEA, tells us about battling religious dogma. Plus, NASA's return to Mars, and the secret of the perfect voice Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Trick or Treatment? Alok Jha and James Randerson are joined by Simon Singh to discuss his new book, Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial. Plus, who will win the world's most prestigious science book prize? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: A Very Royal Institution We're joined in the pod by two of the of RI's most distinguished members, we hear from the opponents and supporters of the embryology bill, and astrobiologist David Catling tells us about the prospects for life on the red planet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The King of Infinite Space We take a tour through the human head, run through the latest twists in the debate over abortion time limits and consider the genetics of the strangest mammal on Earth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Ice, mud and blood Alok Jha and guests discuss the Earth's past climate change; and regrowing fingers using pixie dust Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Engineering Life The team discuss the future of synthetic biology. Philosopher Daniel Dennett explains why religion is an affront to rationality. Plus, have scientists finally discovered dark matter in Italy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The Hidden History of Rational Thought Phillip Ball discusses the development of science in the 12th century. Plus, Peter Higgs on the 'God particle'. Up close and personal with creationist Ken Ham. And why 20 percent of scientists admit to using brain drugs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: An A to Z of Stem Cells Doug Melton from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute discusses embryology and ethics. Plus, the robotic surgeon that pre-empts the human doctor. And the science of regional accents Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Confessions of an Eco Sinner Environment writer Fred Pearce discusses his latest book. Plus, Michio Kaku explains the physics of the impossible. And the biofuel and embryology debates that have seen politicians and scientists lock horns Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Darwin's Natural Heir We hear from the biodiversity and environmental legend EO Wilson. Plus, AC Grayling on the science of learning. And Heisenberg's uncertainty principle explained in song Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Science and Literature Special We discuss science, fiction, and 'lablit' with biologist and science writer Dr. Jennifer Rohn. Plus, Robin Ince on the merits of science versus the arts. And, behind the scenes at the IgNobel awards tour Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The Mind's Eye James Randerson and the team discuss the new computerised mind-reading technique: is it scary or sensational? Plus, we hear from the government's new chief scientific adviser, John Beddington. And, the crisp company hoping to advertise in space Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The Placebo Effect James Randerson and the team discuss the controversy over Prozac. Plus, Polly Toynbee on organ donation. And the greatest science songs of all time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Raymond Kurzweil The influential futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil explains to Science correspondent James Randerson why technology can overcome everything from climate change to poverty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: AAAS Special We're live at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston discussing the future of food, and life on Mars. Plus, futurist Ray Kurzweil tells us why technology will save the world. And we ask, is Craig Venter good for science, or just an evil genius? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 04.02.2008 Marcus du Sautoy explains mathematical mysteries and dynamic digits. Plus, Jim Al-Khalili on the golden age of Arabic science. And another rant against homeopathy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 28.01.2008 Science writer Gabrielle Walker tells us about practical ways to combat climate change. Plus, just how close are we to creating artificial life? And a robotic doll called Stan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 14.01.208 Caspar Melville from New Humanist magazine discusses dinner with Darwin. Plus, Roger Myerson explains game theory. And Briony Greenhill describes her website, thenag.net - winner of the best ethical website prize at the Yahoo Find of the Year awards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Arpad Pusztai Arpad Pusztai, the scientist who kick-started the controversy over GM food almost a decade ago, gives Guardian science correspondent James Randerson his side of the story Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 07.01.2008 God, philosophy and science - we discuss the Edge question for 2008: 'What have you changed your mind about and why?' Plus, at home with HECToR, Britain's newest supercomputer. And, we investigate a trip right into the heart of the Northern Lights Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 02.01.2008 The Science Weekly team look ahead to the scientific year of 2008. Will the LHC work? What breakthroughs will there be in the field of synthetic biology? What will happen with climate change policy? Plus, a new song by our troubadour Jonny Berliner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Sir David King The outgoing UK government chief scientist Sir David King discusses his legacy, climate change, GM crops, and his thoughts on the media with Science reporter Alok Jha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 17.10.2007 The government's chief scientist Sir David King tells us about his legacy and his advice for his successor. Plus, empathetic orang-utans; why humans are evolving faster than ever; and the science of Harry Potter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 03.11.2007 Dating is our subject this week - not the speed dating type, but carbon dating... Geologist Chris Turney is in the studio to tell us how dating has been used to solve mysteries like the authenticity of the Turin Shroud. The UN's climate summit in Bali kicks off this week. A lot of hot air will be generated, but will it actually make any difference to the climate? And we hear how scientists have restored the sensation of touch to a woman with a prosthetic arm. Plus there's the secret to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 26.11.2007 We examine sleep - if you've ever wondered why we spend so much time tucked up under our duvets doing... well, virtually nothing then this week's show may have some of the answers. Ken Arnold is in this week's show to tell us about the Wellcome Trust's new exhibition of sleep and dreaming. We discuss a development that could take the heat out of the stem cell debate. And we find out why buying sperm on the internet is an even worse idea than it sounds. Plus we've got all the news that m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Philip Ball Philip Ball discusses 'social physics' with Science Weekly reporter Tristan Farrow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 19.11.2007 Hugh Montgomery tells us about the science of survival and his Xtreme Everest project. We discuss 'social physics' with Philip Ball. And more on the discovery of a new type of dinosaur; the IPCC's latest document; and the world's first cloned monkey embryos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 12.11.2007 Dr. Michio Kaku tells us his visions of the future. Plus, robot cars, voice synthesis, and the science of love at first sight Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Steven Pinker Experimental psychologist Steven Pinker speaks with Guardian science reporter Alok Jha about his new book, 'The Stuff of Thought'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 05.11.2007 Steven Pinker tells us about the relationship between language and thought. Plus, quackery, elephants on acid, and a new song from our Science Weekly troubadour Jonny Berliner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 29.10.2007 We speak with the producers of new space documentary, 'In The Shadow of the Moon'. The creator of the Sims tells us why computer games aren't bad for our health. Plus, it's the end of the world as we know it, but we feel fine... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: In The Shadow Of The Moon The Science Weekly team speak with Chris Riley and Duncan Copp, producers of the extraordinary new space documentary, 'In The Shadow Of The Moon' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 22.10.2007 Biologist Armand Leroi comes into the pod to pick over the remains of the James Watson furore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Craig Venter part 3 In the final part of our exclusive conversations with biologist Craig Venter, Ed Pilkington asks about the criticism he encountered when he sequenced the human genome Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Craig Venter Part Two The second part of our interview with biologist Craig Venter, in conversation with the Guardian's Ed Pilkington Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Bjorn Lomborg Sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, famous for arguing that fighting climate change is a waste of money, justifies his position to the Guardian's environment editor, John Vidal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 15.10.2007 We bring you the young researchers confronting large companies on their speculative scientific claims, sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg speaks to the Guardian's John Vidal, and we hear more from the controversial biologist Craig Venter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 08.01.2007 Craig Venter explains why he had no fears making his own genome and getting a glimpse into his future. Mark Buchanan explains the study of social physics. Plus, sword swallowing, the gay bomb, and giving jetlagged hamsters Viagra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Craig Venter part 1 The Guardian's Ed Pilkington talks exclusively with the 'Bad Boy of Science' Craig Venter about mapping his own genome and gambling with his own future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: John Brooke John Hedley Brooke - a Distinguished Fellow at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study and former professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University - discusses Richard Dawkins, evolution, science, and secularisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 01.10.2007 It's a science special this week, with Dr Chris Welch from Kingston University discussing the past, present and future of the space race. Plus, Prof John Hedley Brooke on science and secularisation. And how Halo 3 is being used in the fight against disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Chris Rapley The new Director of the Science Museum, Chris Rapley, spoke to Tristan Farrow aout his plans for the museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 24.09.2007 Lucy Hawking on the basics of black holes...and on being the daughter of the cleverest man on the planet; The Science Museum's new Director tells us about his new role; We ask if the scientific tussle over the fossilised Hobbit in Indonesia can now be put to rest Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 17.09.2007 We discuss transplanting pig organs, face recongition, and postcode profiling as we look back on the highlights of the BA Festival of Science. Plus, more on the British space programme, and further dangers of rock n' roll. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 10.09.2007 Philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards discusses the ethical problems thrown up by our advances in the study of genetics. And Science Weekly's troubadour physicist Jonny Berliner returns to the pod to explain the science of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Bernard Carr Bernard Carr, professor of mathematics and astronomy at QNUL, discusses multiverses with Guardian Science correspondent James Randerson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Neil Turok Neil Turok, the chair of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, explains the fundamental principles of cosmology to Guardian Science correspondent Alok Jha Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Sir Martin Rees The Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, explains the controversy around the multiverse theory to Guardian Science correspondent James Randerson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 03.09.2007 Neil Turok explains the core principles of cosmology. Plus, internet godfather Vint Cerf on taking the web into space; mighty mice; and the return (maybe) of the Yangtze river dolphin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 27.08.2007 We talk rum, sodomy, and the net with the internet pirates behind Piratebay. Plus, the science of out of body experiences. And amateur astronomers rejoice! Get ready for Google Sky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 20.08.2007 Simon Lewis from Leeds University joins us to discuss Camp Climate Change and the week of eco-demonstrations at Heathrow. Plus, solving the Rubik's cube in record time; solar-powered bikins; and computer games you play with your underpants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 13.08.2007 Conservation biologist Sam Turvey returns to the pod to tell us about the plight of the Yangtze river dolphin. Plus, the truth about babies' language DVDs; dancing robots; and fat cats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 06.08.2007 Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International, discusses their campaign for internet freedom. Plus, more on the pioneering technique that brought a patient out of a six-year coma. And Brian May explains the relationship between science and music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Ian McEwan Alok Jha and James Randerson speak with award-winning novelist Ian McEwan about the influence of science in his writing - and on his life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 30.07.2007 Award-winning novelist Ian McEwan tells us about the influence of science on his life and in his writing. Plus, Charles Darwin's struggle with faith and religion. And, an epic tale of man against machine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 23.07.2007 Nuclear physicist Jim al-Khalili discusses atoms, matter, and the world's heaviest elements. Plus, the philosopher Dan Dennet explains theories of consciousness. And we unravel the psychology of chat-up lines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Francis Crick An extract from the last ever recorded interview with DNA legend Francis Crick, in conversation Dr. Susan Blackmore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Daniel Dennet Dan Dennet, professor of philosophy at Tufts University, speaks with Dr. Susan Blackmore about the fundamentals of the consciousness debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: V.S. Ramachandran Neurologist V.S. 'Rama' Ramachandran discusses consciousness, qualia, free will, and eastern philosophies with Dr. Susan Blackmore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 16.06.2007 Disaster expert Bill McGuire discusses volcanos, earthquakes and climate change. Plus one of the earliest internet pioneers tells us how the web came about and we go looking for bats in the House of Commons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 09.07.2007 Clinical embryologist Dr Sammy Lee helps us unravel the ethics from the ESHRE fertility conference. Plus, more from CERN; the science of yawning; and our resident troubadour Jonny Berliner returns with a new song on particle physics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 02.07.2007 Cardiac surgeon Francis Wells talks about the public performance of open-heart surgery he'll be carrying out later this week. Plus, we discuss the ethics of synthetic biology, black holes, stem cells, the DNA pawprint of domestic cats, and, er, giant penguins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 25.06.2007 David Attenborough on climate change, James Watson, founder of molecular biology speaks to James Randerson and it's Hackday at London's Alexandra Palace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: David Attenborough David Attenborough speaks to James Randerson about our moral duty to tackle climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 18.06.2007 A Second Life special, as Aleks Krotoski and Dave Taylor discuss how science is moving into the SL metaverse. Plus, two new dinosaur discoveries get palaeontologists' pulses racing. All this, and a virtual Nell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 11.06.2007 Stuart Clark tells us about the pioneering astonomer Richard Carrington and the birth of astrophysics. Prof Robert Winston explains his ethical dilemma with stem cell research. Plus, WiTricty, extraterrestials, and a possible patent on life itself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Robert Winston The UK's leading fertility expert Prof Robert Winston speaks exclusivelyabout stem cell research, IVF, and his public spat with Richard Dawkins Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Steve Jones James Randerson speaks with the award-winning biologist Steve Jones about his new book,'Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Richard Dawkins Alok Jha speaks exclusively with Richard Dawkins, author of the'The God Delusion', about religion, science, his argument with Robert Winston, and what he'll be turning his attention to next Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 28.05.2007 We go behind the scenes at CERN with Dr Brian Cox and Torchwood star, John Barrow (that's Captain Jack). Plus, we investigate the controversial attempts to get homeopathy taken off the NHS. And, we look ahead, back, and sideways at all the science being discussed at this year's Hay Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 21.05.2007 It's a double dose of Darwin and Dark Matter for your delectation. Alison Pearn from the Darwin Correspondence Project helps us to understand further the life and work of the great man of evolutionary theory. We attempt to unravel the mystery of dark matter with some help from NASA, ESA, and the power of song. Plus, we discuss a potential cure for baldness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 14.05.2007 We discuss a century of fantastic plastics with Susan Mossman from the Science Museum. Plus, we talk about the new Encyclopedia of Life project, and go further than any podcast has gone before and conduct on interview on Mount Everest! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 07.05.2007 We ask ecologist Henry Nicholls whether Lonesome George will continue to be so lonesome. Entomologist Gaden Robinson tells us everything we ever wanted to know about moths but were afraid to ask. Plus, a potential cure for childhood blindness, a mathematical mystery, and musical proteins... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: John Barrowman at CERN Particle physicist Dr Brian Cox takes Torchwood's Captain Jack (aka, the actor John Barrowman) behind the scenes at CERN to have an exclusive peek at the Large Hadron Collider Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 04.06.2007 We hear what happened when James Randerson got injected with THC. Sandy Knapp tells us about Carl Linnaeus,'a true enlightenment man'. Plus, we hear from Richard Dakins and Martin Rees as they search for enlightment, and we discuss how scrobbling can make you very rich indeed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 30.04.2007 Forget Web 2.0: Prof Jon Crowcroft's in the pod talking about the next generation of the intenet. Plus, we discuss robot rights (and wrongs); Robert Winston's attack on Richard Dawkins; and the impact of CSI on real forensic science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Susan Blackmore The full interview with Dr. Susan Blackmore, author of 'Conversations on Consciousness'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 23.04.2007 The pod plays host to Dr Susan Blackmore, an expert on the science of consciousness. Ed Gerstner from the journal Nature Physics is on hand to discuss laser fusion: is it the future of global energy supplies? Plus, the return (again!) of our tea debate... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 09.04.2007 Science writer John Whitfield's our special guest, bemoaning the end of the era of the polymath. Plus, we discuss electrosensitivity: is it a myth, or a modern day malady? And Science Weekly troubadour Jonny Berliner returns to the pod with an exclusive performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: AC Grayling Philosopher AC Grayling gives us his views on creationism, climate change, pseudo-science, and many of the other on-going topics we've covered during a year of Science Weekly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 26.03.2007 For our first birthday show, AC Grayling comes to the pod to talk about the big philosophical questions we've tackled over the past year. Plus, we analyse a potential new method of classifying illegal drugs, and discover how the art world's benefiting from a touch of science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 19.03.2007 UCL's Simon Waddington tells us the latest goings-on in the field of gene therapy. Plus, we hear about the bad boy of science Craig Venter and his latest venture. And a special message from the PM... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Marc Abrahams Marc Abrahams talks to us about farting herring, a necrophiliac duck, and other examples from the world of science worthy of an Ig Nobel award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 02.04.2007 Science writer Gabrielle Walker gives us a brief history of the atmosphere, and physicist Dr. Brian Cox discusses his work on new movie, Sunshine. Plus, we find out about Al Gore's latest plans to fight climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 05.03.2007 Prof. Raymond Tallis tells us more about the dangers of junk science. We ask whether virtual reality is the answer to cure post-traumatic stress for soldiers who have served in Iraq. And we debunk one of the biggest myths in the movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: Lee Smolin Lee Smolin, professor of theoretical physics at the Perimeter Institute, talks to us about the mysteries of string theory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 12.03.2007 Antarctic explorer Henry Cookson tells us about his amazing expedition to the Pole of Inaccessibility. Plus, we attempt to untie the mysteries of string theory with Prof. Lee Smolin. And we discuss the Ig Nobel Awards with Marc Abrahams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 19.02.2007 Just where is Beagle 2? Prof. Colin Pillinger tells us the latest about the hunt for the missing Mars lander. Plus, Don Hoyt Gorman, senior editor at Seed Magazine, comes to the pod to talk science and culture. And we find out why a siesta could save your life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 22.01.2007 We examine the conservation project focusing on the world's most genetically-unique animals, and go behind the scenes at the exhibition of the London whale. Plus, just what's got Stephen Hawking sounding so down -- are we all doomed...? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 12.02.2007 Flirting expert Jean Smith's in the pod as we discuss sex, death, and everything in between. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 26.02.2007 Cosmologist and author Marcus Chown joins us in the pod to discuss life, the universe, and everything in between. Plus, giant squids, bionic eyes, and more tea news Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 05.02.2007 Dr Aubrey de Grey comes to the pod to discuss the science of eternal life. Plus, whatever Jim Morrison can do, we can do better: we come up with musical and poetic solutions to climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 29.01.2007 Prof. Richard Fortey joins us in the pod ahead of his Michael Faraday Prize lecture. Plus, we reveal the worst sounds in the world, and ask a futurologist what music we'll be dancing to in 2025. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 15.01.2007 We discuss the latest twists in the stem cell debate: how do you feel about crossing human and animal cells in the name of science? Plus, the lowdown on the iPhone, and why a cheeky cuppa isn't just what the doctor ordered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: 08.01.2007 Our resident troubadour Jonny Berliner performs the Lobster Song, his take on this week's discussion on homosexual animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ScienceWeekly08012007 The team are back for 2007, talking Brits in space, the end of religion, and homosexuality in the animal kingdom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly 08.01.2006 The team are back for 2007, talking Brits in space, the end of religion, and homosexuality in the animal kingdom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 08.01.2007 The team are back for 2007, talking Brits in space, the end of religion, and homosexuality in the animal kingdom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 04.12.2006 James Randerson and the crew hear from James Lovelock about how the climate is taking its revenge on humans. Plus discover how the media was duped by a plastic elephant, and a countdown of the top 100 environmentalists of all time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 18.12.2006 It's out final show of the year -- Bobbie Johnson and the team look back on the key developments of the past 12 months, and gaze ahead to what's in store for 2007, and troubadour Jonny Berliner's on hand with a song or two as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: 11.12.2006 Dr Richard Buggs from Truth in Science, and Andrew Copson from the British Humanist Association, argue the case for and against Creationism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 11.12.2006 Creationism - a leap forward in evolutionary theory or a load of old bunkem? The Guardian Science team has the definitive word on the debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Extra: 04.12.2006 More from controversial Gaia theorist James Lovelock's speech on'global heating' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 27.11.2006 James Randerson and the crew go all CSI and speak with UCL's Dr Jane Johnson about crime prediction and prevention. Plus, the longest golf drive in history... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 20.11.2006 James Randerson and the team are joined by Prof Richard Lane to discuss the repatriation of Aboriginal skeletons to Australia; look ahead to life in 2056; and get treated to a live performance by the UK's Air Guitar Champion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 13.11.06 The Guardian's shock-jocks of science are back with tales of silent aeroplanes, protecting the rainforest and chemicals that are damaging your children's brain (maybe). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 06.11.06 The Guardian's science team discuss this week's news in science and tech. Host Alok Jha asks whether the police should hold everyone's DNA on a contral database and why Tony Blair is a born again scientist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 23.10.06 Radiohead star Thom Yorke explains why rock bands face a climate change dilemma, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak looks back on 30 years of computer history. Plus Ben Goldacre joins in a discussion of the science news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly Extra: 23.10.06 Bobbie Johnson speaks to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 16.10.06 What's the best science book ever written? Science writer Tim Radford and Imperial College biologist Armand Leroi fight it out with their favourites in our studio. The director of a new science-based think tank, Mia Nybrant, tells us how we can us Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for August 21 The Guardian's science team is joined by Vivienne Parry to dissect the week's events including scientific literacy and the truth about ecstacy. Plus Alok Jha reports from Chile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science extra with Steve Jones Prominent biologist Steve Jones tells Alok Jha why he is leading the fight against intelligent design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly for October 9 Why does Professor Steve Jones think that intelligent design is stupid? Hear the answer, plus interviews with climate scientist Kevin Anderson and Ig Nobel prize organiser Marc Abrahams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for October 2 The Pulitzer Prize winning physicist and futurologist, James Martin, phones in to tell host Alok Jha how the world is racing at breakneck speed into an era of extremes - of poverty and wealth, of religious confrontation, of globalisation and technological advance. And that's all on top of global dangers such as climate change. He reveals how we can prevent disaster and explains why teenagers are the world's greatest hope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for September 25 Hear from skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, green campaigner Tony Juniper, physicist Brian Cox and guerrilla conservationist Lawrence Anthony Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for September 18 hat is it like to discover a lost Neanderthal cave? What gems are hidden inside the Royal Society? And will we really have robots looking after our homes? Find out all the answers with the Guardian's science team and presenter James Randerson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scince Weekly for September 11 Topical science chat including mental awareness in vegetative patients, the ethics of egg donation and a report from the British Association's Festival of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly for 04.09.06 Hear British astronaut Piers Sellars talk about the space shuttle, and discover what's happening with the world's largest telescopes. And TV's Adam Rutherford tells us why he thinks he can smash the boring image of science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly for August 29 Ian Sample is joined in the studio by Imperial College scientists Phil Bland and Helen O'Brien for discussion of planets, stem cells and scary robots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for August 14 Should Pluto be demoted from planet status? Could terrorists really take liquid explosives on to planes? And who is set to scoop the biggest prize in mathematics? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science show: 07.08.06 Sand dune music, climate change and more bad science exposed in this week's programme. Ian Sample presents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly 31.07.06 Discover the sinister side of heatwaves in Europe, hear from a doctor who found that the NHS is dealing with sweatshops, and find out about Al Gore's film on climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Podcast Extra - Ian Wilmut James Randerson talks to Ian Wilmut, the man who helped create Dolly the Sheep Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for July 24 A genetics special looking at DNA on death row, the Neanderthal genome and Dolly the Sheep. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly: 10.07.2006 Find out what $7200 worth of Bill Gates' time sounds like and why bashing a Bishop won't get you excommunicated from the Catholic church. Plus prize winning author David Bodanis talks in the pod about his new book Passionate Minds and tells us why new ideas are like a red-hot poker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for July 3 Should a line be drawn under the MMR controversy? Is the latest space shuttle mission Nasa's final test? And why are England so rubbish at penalties? All this and more in this week's podcast with the Guardian's science team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly for June 26 Ethicist John Harris joins the Guardian's science team for a discussion on fertility screening, plus we hear the latest stem cell research, discover the truth about gravity waves and hear about the world's oldest bling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly for June 19 Join the Guardian's science team for discussion of buying DNA online, whaling and where the human race could live outside of Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for June 12 The Guardian's science team is joined by space doctor Kevin Fong and environmental journalist and author Fred Pearce. Topics up for discussion include a mission to Everest, nature's revenge and flying into the Aurora Borealis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Podcast Extra An added bonus: the full interview with SpaceShipOne test pilot Brian Binnie, as he describes what it's like to fly to the edge of space. This week's Guardian Science show is available seperately. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for June 5 How England can win the World Cup, why scientists should be allowed to do medical research on great apes, and a report from the Hay book festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for May 29 Should we force children to have vaccinations? What is the next nuclear dream? And an answer to the age-old question - what came first, the chicken or the egg? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: 22.05.06 Join the Guardian's science team for a discussion of nuclear energy, Hobbits, the Aventis prize and polar bears. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly for May 15, 2006 Join the Guardian's science team to hear about fertility screening, Britain in space and cloning pets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly: 08.05.2006 The Guardian's science team gather to discuss IVF for pensioners, the latest endangered species and the possible threats of nanotechnology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly for May 1, 2006 Join Alok Jha, Vivienne Parry and the Guardian's science team to discuss a smorgasbord of science stories Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly for April 24 Alok Jha is joined in the studio by the Guardian's science team for discussion of the moon, evolution in the classroom and the sad story of Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly, April 17 2006 Alok Jha is joined in the studio by the Guardian's science team and guest, Aventis prize-nominated author Vivienne Parry. Topics up for discussion include psychadelic drugs, imaginary disorders and the best science books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly: 10.04.2006 Join Alok Jha and his guests as they discuss the week's science news, ranging fr om the latest trip into space, an update on the bird flu panic, to the fun rensic science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science weekly: 03.04.2006 Alok Jah, James Randerson and Bobbie Johnson are joined by special guest Lisa Jardine to dissect the week's scientific shenagigans. In this programme: how Robert Hooke's legendary papers were saved for the nation and the hype behind the so-called wonder drug Herceptin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Show Guardian Unlimited's weekly science podcast, for Monday March 27 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: The things science can't explain What is the evolutionary purpose of sex? And where has 96% of our universe gone? Michael Brooks takes us through 13 things for which science has no answer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Weekly: Life after death David Eagleman discusses his new book in which he ponders the afterlife. We also look at last week's UK budget and ask whether it was green enough, and reveal why the centre of the galaxy tastes of raspberries Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website