Podcast Episodes

Mark O'Shea on close encounters with venomous snakes

How do you feel about snakes? What about highly venomous ones?

For Mark O’Shea, close encounters with the world’s most rare and deadly snakes are not only his profession, but his passion. Mark is a P…

Published on 8 hours ago

Kevin Fong on medical planning for Mars and Earth-based emergencies

There can't be many people in the world who've saved lives in hospital emergency rooms and also helped care for the wellbeing of astronauts in space – but Kevin Fong’s career has followed a singular …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want

Chemical reactions are the backbone of modern society: the energy we use, the medicines we take, our housing materials, even the foods we eat, are created by reacting different substances together. …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Catherine Heymans on the lighter side of the dark universe

Have you ever considered the lighter side of dark matter? Comedy has proved an unexpectedly succesful way to engage people with science - as today's guest knows first-hand.

Astrophysicist Catherine H…

Published on 3 months ago

Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution

As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria and was told a second bout would probably kill him. Aged on…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity

Claudia de Rham has rather an unusual relationship with gravity.

While she has spent her career exploring its fundamental nature, much of her free time has involved trying to defy it - from scuba di…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI

When you think of Artificial Intelligence, does it inspire confidence, or concern?

Although it's now generally accepted that this technology will play a major role in our future, a lot of conversation…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Liz Morris on Antarctic adventures and the melting polar ice sheets

A frozen, white world at the far-reaches of the globe, where you're surrounded by snow and silence, might sound rather appealing. Factor in temperatures that drop to -57°C and a few of us might be p…

Published on 4 months ago

Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents

Welcome to a world where medicine meets politics: a space that brings together scientific research, government wrangling, public push-back and healthcare conspiracies…

Dr Anthony Fauci was the Directo…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Brian Schmidt on Nobel Prize-winning supernovae and the joys of making wine

Have you ever pondered the fact that the universe is expanding? And not only that, it's expanding at an increasing speed - meaning everything around us is getting further and further away?

If that i…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago