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Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...
Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...
Dr Ruth Cameron and Dr Serena Best from the Centre for Medical material at the University of Cambridge spoke to Chris...
What do we need robots for in genetics? Just what difference do they make? We sent Meera to the Wellcome Trust Sanger...
Being addicted to things is usually bad news but now there's evidence that getting hooked on chocolate might not...
Meera went out to find the best bits of the festival, and wound up in crowd control!
We travel back in time to find out how the 17th Century people of York coped with the plague...
Out of Body Experiences (OBE's)may be spooky, but they can tell us a lot about how the brain works. Now,...
Jim Olsen and his team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle have found a way to use scorpion...
Bruce Livett tells how he is using the venom of cone shells to cure pain...
We spoke to Gavin Laing, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicne, about why snake venom is so potent, how we could...
Robyn Williams, from ABC Radio National's 'The Science Show' speaks to Glenn King about finding natural...
Ben finds out how to avoid being stung and make a great cup of tea at the same time.
How deep can you go? Professional free divers can descend hundreds of feet underwater with no scuba gear, but what...
David Thomas is a marine biologist from the University of Wales, Bangor. His work takes him all over the world and he...
Fighter pilots need to undergo extreme conditions and still be able to make life or death decisions. How do they train...
Richard Turner volunteered to have his body tested to extremes of endurance at Everest base camp, all in the name of...
It's all well and good being excited about new fuels, but are the arguments for using them really sound? Can we...
For kitchen science, we sent Azi to find out how to make biodiesel from vegetable oil, and to prove that it really...
Here’s a puzzle that science has yet to solve; it’s something we all do, it’s contagious and even animals are affected...
This week, Bob and Chelsea talk us through blood based bandages and the benefits of cut-sucking.