Inside Apollo Mission Control With Gerry Griffin (494)
This week we're joined by Gerry Griffin, an aeronautical engineer and Apollo flight director who worked on every single moon landing during...
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20 of 480 episodesThe GLP-1 Side Effect Everyone Ignores With Professor Clare Collins (493)
When Robbie Williams announced he had been diagnosed with s curvy earlier this year, Professor Clare Collins was relieved… why?! Because he...
OpenAI's Rogue AI: A Real-World Cyberattack Explained with Dr. Petr Levedev (492)
In mid-2026, a swarm of AI agents coordinated a cyberattack on Hugging Face, a platform where machine learning communities can collectively...
The Universe's Mathematical Twin With Marcus Chown [Bonus Episode] (491)
Science writer and journalist Marcus Chown returns for a shorter, more philosophical chat. When Einstein first proposed gravitational waves,...
Gravity's Missing Particle With Marcus Chown (490)
Science writer and former astrophysicist Marcus Chown joins us to discuss the elusive graviton - the theoretical particle behind gravity. In...
Reality Q&A: Live from Willoughby Library with Geraint Lewis (489)
A bonus episode straight from the audience at Geraint Lewis' book launch for "The Shortest History of Reality." Listeners fire off some big...
Reality Check: An Astrophysicist's View of Reality with Geraint Lewis Part One (488)
Join us for a special live episode of Shirtloads of Science, recorded at Willoughby Library for the launch of Professor Geraint Lewis' new b...
More with Toby Hagon: The EV Deep Dive Continues (487)
Motor journalist Toby Hagon returns to Shirtloads of Science for round two on electric vehicles. Toby shares how he got into motoring journa...
Charged Up: All Things Electric Vehicles With Toby Hagon (486)
Motor journalist Toby Hagon joins Shirtloads of Science to talk all things electric vehicles. We break down the often-confused difference be...
Growing Mini Retinas To Fight Blindness With Anai Gonzalez-Cordero (485)
Associate Professor Anai Gonzalez-Cordero joins us on Shirtloads to explore the remarkable world of stem cells and how they can develop into...
Beyond "Survival of the Fittest" with Rowan Hooper (484)
What if evolution isn't just about the survival of the fittest? Rowan Hooper, senior editor at New Scientist, joins Shirtloads to discuss hi...
In Dedication: Richard Scolyer on Risk, Hope and Radical Cancer Treatment (483)
This conversation was originally recorded and published in November, 2024. In light of Richard's passing, we wanted to share it again becaus...
Beasts Behaving Badly with Dr. Ann Jones (482)
Dr. Ann Jones joins me to chat about her hilarious new What the Duck? series, Nature's Most Wanted , which dives into the wild world of crim...
Seaweed! The Humble Organism Fighting Climate Change with Assoc. Prof. Alex Campbell (481)
Marine Ecologist Assoc. Professor Alex Campbell takes us into the wonderful, under-appreciated world of seaweed and makes the case that it m...
Why Weight Loss Drugs Don't Work On Their Own Dr. Nick Fuller (480)
I'm joined by Dr Nick Fuller to dissect the long-term effectiveness of weight loss medications and why lasting results do actually require m...
Inside Microsoft's Global Research Lab With Dr. Peter Lee (479)
This episode I'm joined by Dr Peter Lee, Head of Research at Microsoft, to explore the ideas shaping the future of technology. Leading 14 re...
The (Not So) Boring Billion with Prof. Dietmar Müller (478)
In this episode, we speak with Dietmar Müller about the "Boring Billion", a seemingly quiet period in Earth's deep history that may have bee...
Solving a Cosmic Radio Signal Mystery with Kovi Rose (477)
Astronomer and soon-to-be Dr. Kovi Rose joins us to discuss his newly published Nature Astronomy paper on one of the universe's newest myste...
Coffee & Blood Pressure Explained with Prof. Clare Collins (476)
Professor Clare Collins returns to the pod to answer a common question: does coffee raise your blood pressure? We also discuss how genetics...
The Hidden Health Benefits of Honey with Prof. Clare Collins (475)
Friend of the pod Professor Clare Collins returns to dive down into the sticky depths of the surprisingly powerful world of honey - far beyo...