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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 754
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
What's the best shaped ice cube?
What's the best shaped ice cube, the study suggesting a pan-coronavirus vaccine might be on the cards, why a temperature of 30 degrees C feels hot despite being below human body temperature, what eff…
00:23:31 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
Why do I think I look different in photos?
Why cockroaches invariably are found dead on their backs; what happens to old and previous Covid-19 variants; why do I see myself differently in photographs compared with when I look in the mirror; h…
00:26:53 |
Fri 24 Dec 2021
Why does everything taste rotten after Covid?
Why, after a dose of Covid-19, am I left with a new taste sensation resembling rotten onions? Why does bleached hair look blond, not white, and does salt water decolour the hair of surfers? How do I …
00:26:10 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
Can memories be artificially implanted?
What boils fastest, a glass or plastic kettle? Do animals adapt to their surroundings? Why do I feel sleepy when I take a trip to the coast? What's an itch? Why can I hear my husband snoring, but not…
00:25:16 |
Sat 04 Dec 2021
Is Google Maps harming my sense of direction?
This week, what's the bottom line on sanitising surfaces against Covid-19? Why, wonders Lester, am I so sluggish for the first few hours of the day? And can you train your chronotype to be a better m…
00:28:01 |
Sat 20 Nov 2021
Why doesn't an injured spinal cord re-grow?
The chemistry of fireworks, can I safely eat one year old Christmas cake, why we don't fall out of bed at night, what the Universe is expanding into, the reason we have to remove laptops from bags at…
00:25:53 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
How long does Covid-19 vaccine immunity last?
This week we join young learners at Christel House school who ask us about the duration of immunity to Covid-19 post-vaccine and post-infection. Also, menstrual synchrony and whether it's fact or fic…
00:22:31 |
Wed 03 Nov 2021
How different are dog and human brains?
What gases are present in lava? What happens when hot magma meets cold water in the sea? How different is an animal's brain to my own? How much of my intelligence is down to genes, and how much is th…
00:25:41 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Are farts infectious?
This week, James Croll and Mulitun Milankovic's contributions to planetary climate cycles; what it takes to knock a planet off-axis; where do clouds falling off Table Mountain go; does a discharged b…
00:26:56 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Why are only some batteries rechargeable?
This week, where Vitamin D comes from, if lab-grown protein is vegan-friendly, how mammals evolved to dive deep underwater, how genes can be used to track evolution, how chillies create a burning sen…
00:25:28 |
Mon 04 Oct 2021
What makes a virus like Covid-19 mutate?
What makes a virus mutate? Why does bladder control become so much harder to achieve the closer I get to a toilet? How does sneezing work? How are vaccines quality controlled and assured around the w…
00:21:50 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Can science bring back extinct species?
This week it's time to join another local school to answer their burning science questions including can we bring back extinct species from the dead; is the Universe infinite; can we replace cells an…
00:29:23 |
Sat 18 Sep 2021
How does a water softener work?
What causes r-rolling difficulties otherwise known as rhotacism? Also, why do we have to stay still in an MRI scanner, why is calcium a metal, what makes water hard and how does a water softener work…
00:26:38 |
Sat 11 Sep 2021
Why does heat wipe out a magnet?
This week we ask whether we're about to start spoiling other planets with our space forays, if there is antimatter in the human body, what causes cluster headaches, whether microwaving can ripen avoc…
00:26:29 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
Can two light rays collide?
Is there such a thing as a true circle? Can two light rays collide with one another? What makes the sky look blue? Have aliens ever visited Earth? Will time travel ever be possible? What's the perfec…
00:25:33 |
Sat 28 Aug 2021
In computing, how does the cloud work?
Why do I shiver when I wee? How does carbon dating work? What can I not tickle myself - is that similar to why I mind my own farts less than someone else's? Does breath-holding block tickle sensation…
00:26:29 |
Sat 21 Aug 2021
Allergic to just one part of an animal?
Can you be allergic to one part of an animal but not another? What's the point of dreaming? What happened before the Big Bang? What's in wine that causes hangovers, and is this an allergic reaction? …
00:26:51 |
Sat 14 Aug 2021
Does digital data weigh anything?
How do African animals withstand extreme cold in the Kalahari? Does the data we're all generating and storing weigh anything? How does relativity relate to the real world? Why do we run Olympic races…
00:24:37 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Are we at peak human Olympic performance?
Why do some forms of heater seem to warm a room up faster? What's the different between Alzheimer's Disease and dementia? Are aluminium cooking utensils a risk factor for Alzheimer's? Can magic mushr…
00:23:42 |
Sat 24 Jul 2021
Why does squinting sharpen vision?
In this week's show, recorded before the Euro 2021 final, Dr Chris explains why Inuits survive on polar fare with impunity but Shackleton's crew developed nutritional deficiency when they were stuck …
00:25:13 |
Sat 17 Jul 2021
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