Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow your brain builds your picture of reality
Season 1 Episode 356
How do our brains help us build up a picture of the world around us? It’s a question that has both beguiled and fascinated scientists for centuries. …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Better Sleep: How snoring affects our health
Season 1 Episode 355
More than four in ten of us in the UK are snorers. Far from being a trivial condition, snoring can have a significant impact on our ability to sleep,…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons
Season 1 Episode 354
Humans are enthralled by stories about murder. And the mysteries we tell these days – like in the Glass Onion films or TV shows like The Residence – …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Better Sleep: The deep connection between sleep and memory
Season 1 Episode 353
We humans spend roughly one third of our time sleeping. For the average person this adds up to around 26 years over our lifetimes. And though to the …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
How to harness the healing power of the body’s largest nerve
Season 1 Episode 352
It’s a little-known fact that we all have two long networks of nerves that run down either side of our necks that pass signals from our brains to all…
1 year ago
The evolution of music, its impact on human culture and its future
Season 1 Episode 351
There’s little doubt that music is an integral part of what it means to be human. But how did it first arise, how did musical instruments and composi…
1 year ago
Why we should rethink our relationship with alcohol
Season 1 Episode 350
The shocking fact is that alcohol is responsible for around three times more deaths globally than any other drug combined, save for tobacco. However,…
1 year ago
Don't miss the upcoming Better Sleep miniseries!
Studies show that around one in three of us aren't getting enough sleep, and this is having a huge impact on our ability to perform at our best, bot…
1 year ago
How humans may soon become an interplanetary species
Season 1 Episode 349
It’s now been more than 50 years since any human being has set foot on the Moon, but the ambition to do so again has been gathering pace over the las…
1 year ago
The listening hacks that can transform your health
Season 1 Episode 348
Our everyday lives are filled with sounds of all kinds – birdsong, traffic noise, the music we choose to listen to or is played in shops and restaura…
1 year ago