Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe psychology of paranormal experiences
Season 1 Episode 386
Be it a cold, drafty room in a creaky old country house or a still, quiet forest on a dark night, chances are that at one point or another we’ll all …
8 months ago
Inside the hunt for life-changing medicines
Season 1 Episode 385
Chances are when we’re treated with medicines in hospital or pick up our prescriptions at the pharmacy, we don’t give much thought about how the drug…
8 months, 1 week ago
From asteroids to aliens - how space is threatening our planet
Season 1 Episode 384
Is our planet under threat from the depths of space? In this episode, we talk to solar physicist Dr Ryan French. Normally, Ryan is busy unravelling t…
8 months, 1 week ago
Why we treat our pets and possessions like human beings
Season 1 Episode 383
Many of us treat our pet dogs or cats with the same love and attention that with give to our human babies, some of us give our cars or other prized p…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
How bats became one of the planet’s most successful animals
Season 1 Episode 382
It’s a little-known fact that bats are one of the most successful animals on Earth, with almost 1,500 different species currently identified. Their a…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Why penguins are one of the planet’s most unique bird species
Season 1 Episode 381
Thanks to their comical waddle-like way of walking, striking tuxedo-patterned plumage or graceful ability to seemingly ‘fly’ beneath the water, pengu…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Busting the biggest myths in neuroscience
Season 1 Episode 380
Relatively speaking neuroscience and psychology are young fields of scientific research that only really got going over the last hundred years or so.…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The positive tipping points that can help us solve the climate crisis
Season 1 Episode 379
When it comes to climate change, we often think of tipping points as having a huge negative effect. Be it the loss of ice sheets in the Arctic, the d…
9 months ago
How cats became one of our most-loved domestic pets
Season 1 Episode 378
From Lewis Carrol’s mysterious grinning Cheshire Cat and Jim Davis’s lazy, lasagne-loving comic strip tabby Garfield to the depictions of big cats fo…
9 months ago
How the health of the oceans is vital for the health of the planet
Season 1 Episode 377
Despite being a land-based species, the fact is that we humans live on a planet that is largely covered by oceans. The oceans play a key role in regu…
9 months, 1 week ago