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Each episode of The Science of Fiction picks a theme and discusses the science and non-science in fiction involving that theme, with hilarious results, a selection of tenuously-related music...
To celebrate the release of Star Trek Into Darkness , serial guest James Grime has taken on the arduous task of re-watching the original ser...
Oliver Marsh studies science-media interactions at the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, occas...
Picking up where What if… we could all become cyborgs? , a show Andy produced for the BBC World Service, and last week's episode both left o...
Cam Robinson hosts GameSpot 's The What If Machine , where he explores how close the wonder of modern science fact can bring us to gaming sc...
Spoken nerd and songstress Helen Arney lends her voice to the show. Video games, fossils, AIs, cat chat, and almost no ukuleles. Tracklist B...
Political ecologist Ivan Scales —McGrath Lecturer and Director of Studies in Geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge—joins the show t...
Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Foundation joins Will by phone to discuss reversing the effects of ageing, the accurate...
Andy and Will round off the year with a show on intoxicants: real or fantastical, legal or outlawed, poison or cure (or sometimes both …). J...
Alexandra Kamins , a researcher at the University of Cambridge and IOZ , brings us the messy reality behind the spread of disease, everyone'...
Serial guest Michael Conterio joins the show to discuss the fiction and fact of technology enabled by quantum mechanics. Michael co-hosts Bu...
Andy is joined by Sam Gregson —who works on a “ very big thing in Geneva ”—to discuss public perceptions of scientists, as revealed through...
James Grime , “ resident tamed mathematician ” of The Enigma Project and past guest , returns to the show to discuss the cliché of depicting...
We're joined by Helen Scales —marine biologist, broadcaster and author of Poseidon’s Steed —to discuss watery lairs, submariners, cephalopod...
Nick Crumpton —zoologist, co-editor of BlueSci Films , freelance journalist, occasional beard-haver and ukulelist—joins the show to talk pri...
Your intrepid hosts have spent their summers in two unfamiliar cities apiece. To kick off the new season, we'll be discussing fiction which...
Leonard Richardson joins the show from across the Atlantic to talk about games as plot devices, generative content, storytelling, games whic...
Andy and Will discuss the ways people converse in fiction: some archaic, some fantastical. Causality-violating quantum entanglement How the...
Daisy Scholten joins Andy to talk about saintly medical techniques, the afterlife, and absolutely no Dan Brown. Don't forget to get your tic...
How might the world end? This week, The Science of Fiction investigates the myriad of scenarios for the downfall of humanity. Plus, we intro...
With Andy having fled the country, Will is joined by Trevor Wood to talk about Nash equilibria, reputation-based currency, and the 16th-cent...
The worst offenders might be shampoo adverts, but egregious pseudo-science is not exactly rare in fiction. Joined by The Science Of Fiction...
Minimizing the edit distance from last week's show , Chris Smowton joins us to talk about androids, AI, the uncanny valley, and tiny fire ex...
We take a look at reboots, remakes, re-imaginings, and other almost-synonymous new versions of old works. Are they made to take advantage of...
Kat Arney —songstress, Naked Scientist , knitter—joins Andy and Will to chat about colliders, steampunk, lab-based literature, quacks and th...
Fasten your tin-foil hats securely, as Andy and Will delve into the murky world of conspiracy theories. Assassination plots, Martian civiliz...
Andy and Will take a (pseudo-)random walk around the scientific and/or fictional topics suggested by their music collections, from interdime...
Djuke, guest star of last season's episode about stress , returns to the show to discuss hybrids, aliens and mutants across fiction and fact...
Andy and Will correct their past selves’ on-air blunders, and take a look at shakey science in fiction and fact. Tracklist Blood Red Shoes –...
Bond, Neil Stephenson, Turing, and a real live Enigma machine in the studio! Here are some photos: Andy , James , the Enigma machine , its i...
Good Will Hunting, the bat sonar digital switchover, The Hunt for Red October, The Oxford Murders, A Beautiful Mind, Pi, Kevin Bacon, curing...
A music-packed episode of some of our favourite music from and about fiction! From concept albums to point-and-click adventures, and Vikram...
Floods, custard shortages, beards, raccoons, Command & Conquer, environmental pressures, vulnerability theory and more. Here’s an article ab...
…assuming a spherical shark… How the four fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force) crop up in TV...
Genetic engineering, stem cell research, and the impact of biotechnology on societies past, present and future, mundane and fantastical. Str...
Televisions in Papua New Guinea; Heinz ketchup varieties; Fight Club; Dell, Apple and freedom from choice. Getting old; toddlers going cavin...
Happy birthday Kim; robots; humans are inefficient batteries; squeaky burgers; the end of the world in the late 90s; Demolition Man, Escape...
Chaos, the weather, and why mathematicians can prove there isn't an answer to everything. Niraj is a PhD student in nanophotonics, and wrote...
Andy and Will chat about what they've been reading and watching over the summer. Clock by Dave Stokes Send feedback and comments to show@sci...
Final episode of the series with Dr Amy Milton on the subject of memory, and how to erase it. Original by Carolyn Williams Send feedback and...
Dorée gives us a glimpse into the troubled minds of Victorian horror writers, and their pathological fears of, well, pathology. Chemists's S...
Prof. Andy Parker heads up the the work on the Large Hardion Collider in Cambridge. We ask him about his work in search of hidden dimensions...
Andy Pontzen discusses the science of time travel, and judges the quality of depictions in fiction from on-air synopses! Expect DeLorean, Te...
“Science Punk” Frank Swain talks about real life zombies, and Thomas Wooley discusses his reseach into how we will fare in the event of a zo...
Andy and Will go head-to-head with their favourite fictional scientists. Kungfu scientists by Arnaud DG Send feedback and comments to show@s...
A show on computers and Computers Science in fiction, inevitably tripping over geek classics such as Tron and Hackers, and spaced by nerdcor...
Andy and Michael discuss everything “Who”, asking questions like “How does a Dalek really work?” and investigating important issues includin...
The very first show, featuring Ben Valsler, producer of the Naked Scientists. Ben's Masters dissertation was titled “Depictions of science a...