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Join us to discuss the latest in popular science books. We interview authors and dissect the issues raised by each book. It's a book review with a difference.
If you really want to develop an appreciation for those early pathologists who went so far as to taste-tested truly horrible samples from co...
Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate change, yet their work and knowledge has long been dismissed as unscientific....
This episode examines the science behind auto racing by digging into Racing Green: How Motorsports Became Smarter, Safer, Cleaner and Faster...
Why is duct tape the answer to fixing everything? How do geckos cling to walls? And what, exactly, keeps our car tyres rolling down the road...
In this episode, we discuss Her Hidden Genius . It's the new book by Marie Benedict, a lawyer and best-selling author who unearths the histo...
In this episode, we're delving deep into the science of one of the best-selling fiction writers of all times: Agatha Christie . We look for...
This episode is for anybody interested in how human beings have altered the world around us since we came on the scene tens of thousands of...
This month, we're reading The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science...
In this episode, we'll tackle Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Future s by Adam Zmith. In his first book, Zmith blends historical...
This episode is for all those people who have turned to gardening or amassed houseplants during the Covid lockdowns as we'll be talking abou...
In this month's episode we'll talk about Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide by medical anthropo...
Get your garlic and crucifix ready as we tackle Kathryn Harkup's latest book V ampirology: The Science of Horror's Most Famous Fiend . Harku...
How do you make a chemical-resistant beaker out of a material as fragile as glass? And how do you tell the temperature of a piece of steel w...
We might like to think that science is purely objective, driven only by scientific principles and free of social disturbances — but this cou...
In this episode, we're looking for answers to the important questions in life like 'Why do you believe in diets?' or 'Why are you working in...
This month we find out drug testing has come a long way, as we read The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment and the Battle for Authority...
This month we're celebrating 20 years of a popular science classic: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks. In his m...
Whether you're looking for a sciencey Christmas present for the young readers in your life or just want to delve into the science of childre...
This time, we're reading Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind by forensic anthropologist Sue Black and author of the 2018...
It's the end times in this episode as we're reading The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). In five scenarios, cosmologist Katie M...
In this episode we're reading United We Are Unstoppable: 60 Inspiring Young People Saving Our World, a book of short stories, told by the pe...
This month we're reading Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by historian Lucy Jane Santos. The book traces the story of a radioactiv...
In this episode we're tackling the coronavirus information overload by comparing three books on pandemics past and present: O utbreaks and E...
From photographic film to scientific glassware, Ainissa Ramirez's new book The Alchemy of Us offers a unique insight into our relationship w...
This month, we take a peek behind the curtain with Gemma Milne's Smoke & Mirrors. In her first book, the technology journalist looks at head...
This time we're reading Ingredients , a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts. First-time author George Zaidan investi...
Why don't we think of coffee as a drug? Are you hooked on heroin the moment you take it...or is the answer more complicated? In Say Why to D...
This month, we're talking about giraffes, a magic sandwich hole and the question of whether robots will take over the world. All of these th...
This month, we're delving deep into chemistry's history as we discuss Peter Wothers' book Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the Elemen...
In her new book Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time Gaia Vince assembles everything you need to know...
This month, we're delving into the science of language as we're discussing linguist David Adger's book Language Unlimited: The Science Behin...
Have you ever considered the practicalities of building a swimming pool out of cheese? Or wondered what it would take to surround your house...
Enjoy a fast-paced thriller but wish they were a bit more believable when it comes to the science? In that case, Fiona Erskine's chemical in...
In Superior: The Return of Race Science , Angela Saini examines the history of race science and the people who spend years studying it. Supe...
This time in our Book Club podcast, we celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Primo Levi, the man behind The Periodic Table . In this collect...
For this month's Book Club podcast, it's a highly unusual review scenario, as we get to grips with Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Perio...
This time in Book Club, we follow sustainability journalist Tim Smedley as he pursues one of humankind's greatest challenges and looks at th...
In this month's book club podcast, Anthony Warner – 'The Angry Chef' behind the popular blog of the same name that then spawned a book – tac...
In this month's podcast, Australian author Matt Parker looks at the unique relationship that exists between human beings and numbers, and ho...
This month's podcast features Inventing Ourselves by cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. The book explores the complex changes t...
This time, we discuss and scrutinise Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome, by Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan. By...
This month's podcast features I'm a Joke and So Are You , in which comedian Robin Ince examines what makes us human by reflecting on his own...
This month's podcast is about the Nobel prize and the hype that has surrounded it for decades, as described in Brian Keating's new book Losi...
This month's podcast features material scientist Mark Miodownik's latest book Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Thro...
For this month's podcast, we take a slight diversion from our usual non-fiction theme, and take a look at Jennifer Rohn's lab-lit novel Cat...
Emma Stoye presents this month's podcast about immunology professor Daniel Davis's latest book – The Beautiful Cure. The book explores the h...
In this month's podcast presented by Emma Stoye, Helen Thomson reveals fascinating insights about some of the rarest neurological conditions...
Join Emma Stoye at the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. She speaks to New Scientist's Rowan Hooper about his book Sup...
For this month's podcast, we explore the world of anti-GM campaigning which Mark Lynas was a part of for years, and discover what it was tha...
Are things getting better, or are we on the decline? In Enlightenment now , Steven Pinker argues that science and reason have made us better...