Radical Science
The science podcast that’s not about the science.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2021
Quantum Computing in Startup Land
We speak to Chad Rigetti, CEO of quantum computing startup Rigetti Computing. We dive deep into the challenges that face deep tech startups, the core debates within quantum computing, and what it's l…
Open Minds, Open Hardware
This episode was recorded in the bowels of Sussex University when we met up with Tom Baden a Neuroscientist interested in how the visual system processes information. Our motivation for chatting to T…
Science in Seattle
This episode we speak to Zach Mueller, an Amazon Data Scientist and co-Founder of Sound.Bio, Seattle's first DIY Biohackspace. We wanted to hear about how they aim to build a community around biology…
Unearthing Tomorrow's Medicine
In this episode we spoke to Jackie Hunter, CEO of Benevolent Bio, a company that utilises machine learning and AI to find previously overlooked drug candidates within the research literature. Jackie …
Reading and Writing in a Universal Language
In this episode we spoke to Emily Leproust, CEO of Twist Bioscience. Twist has revolutionised the process of synthesising DNA which is used in applications spanning drug discovery to optimising crop …
Truth, Beauty, Science
Our latest episode is with Tom Zeller Jr the Editor in Chief of Undark (formerly at the New York Times). Undark was set up as way of applying hard hitting investigative journalism to the intersection…
Curating Creativity
This episode we chatted to Hugh Forrest, the newly minted Chief Programming Officer of South by South West (SXSW). This role puts Hugh in charge of one of the most dynamic and diverse conferences aro…
The Reinvention of Research
This week we chatted to Chris Hartgerink a PhD metascientist (the science of science) and open access advocate, whose core focus is on data fraud. Chris was recently featured in this Guardian piece -…
Bringing Science to the Senate
This episode we chatted to Michael Eisen (@mbeisen), a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael is a core advocate of the Open Science movement C…
Science's Mission Control
We were joined by Alok Tayi, CEO and Co-Founder of TetraScience, a Y Combinator alumni company that utilises IoT to transform how research is done. We talk about the current state of 'disconnected' r…
Silicon Valley Science with Ryan Bethencourt
We spoke to Ryan Bethencourt, the Program Director and Venture Partner at IndieBio - the world's largest seed biotech accelerator - about building the science startups of tomorrow, and the role of ri…
Rise of the Research Entrepreneurs with Ceri Brenner
Featuring Dr Ceri Brenner an Application Development Physicist at the STFC. Based out of the Harwell Campus, Ceri focuses on how to spin out technology related to laser her laser science. We spoke ab…
The Battle for Open Science with Ross Mounce
Featuring Ross Mounce, Cambridge Post-Doc and Editor at RIO Journal a platform that publishes all outputs of the research cycle, including: project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software. We s…
Math Beyond the Calculator with Conrad Wolfram
Featuring Conrad Wolfram, Strategic and International Director of Wolfram Alpha, and founder of Computer Based Math. We spoke about a need to shift math education towards problem solving and away fro…
Science and Storytelling Collide
We speak to Mark Levinson, Director of Particle Fever, about telling the human stories behind the Higgs Boson discovery, making the complex beautifully compelling, and what's next for the Particle Ph…