The eLife Podcast
The eLife Podcast: outstanding research in life science and biomedicine.
- Update frequency
- every 44 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Astronauts, geese and realistic retinas
This month, doctors doing U-turns: the medical practices without much evidence to prop them up, wind-tunnel experiments reveal how geese fly at extreme altitudes, why mating makes bees go blind, stre…
00:40:25 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Brain basis of blindsight
This month, the blind monkey that lacks a visual cortex but can still see, the bee-hunting wasps that use a gas cloud to keep harmful fungi at bay, adaptive optics that can image blood vessels of all…
00:34:21 |
Tue 09 Jul 2019
Malaria and Myrmecophiles
This month, stunning fossil remains of a beetle that evolved to exploit ants and appeared rapidly after ants became social themselves, how inflammation in early life alters the ability of the nervous…
00:31:49 |
Thu 30 May 2019
Vaccines and viral swarms
How the brain handles sensations from amputated body parts, evidence that government vaccination campaigns to target measles really work, the heel-prick blood test at birth that can detect prematurit…
00:32:33 |
Fri 26 Apr 2019
Weaponised insulin
The shellfish that release insulin into the water to catch fish, brain activity patterns that predict future addictions, how to do gene drive experiments safely, and is the first author position gend…
00:27:08 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Dodgy cells and big neurons
Why one in five published papers that use cultured cells may be wrong, the frog that sings underwater without air, genes that make you live longer, seeing evolution through bats' eyes, and do brainie…
00:34:20 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
Insect Farmers and oxytocin
This month in the eLife Podcast, how scientists got oestrogen signalling all wrong in breast cancer, fungus-farming ants and their microbial helpers, how smells influence memory, the tension between …
00:36:10 |
Tue 29 Jan 2019
Fossil Flowers, and Fur Seal Parasites
In this episode of the eLife Podcast, the nerves with a taste for salt, why fur seal pups succumb to hookworms, the oldest fossilised flowers ever found, the monkey business of chimp personalities, a…
00:31:53 |
Wed 19 Dec 2018
Transmissible Tumours and LSD Receptors
The wildlife impact of urban sprawl, how climate change will affect the distribution of mosquito-borne outbreaks, Devil Facial Tumour Disease 2, how LSD works in the brain and gender bias in peer rev…
00:34:16 |
Tue 13 Nov 2018
Inside Your Microbiome
This special edition of the eLife Podcast marks our 50th episode and we've decided to mark the milestone by focusing on a field that's huge and tiny both at the same time: huge in terms of the rate a…
00:31:57 |
Sun 07 Oct 2018
Pigeon patterning and stiff lungs
In this episode of the eLife Podcast, we hear about the RNA world, bovine TB, lung fibrosis, and why rock pigeons have different wing patterns... Get the references and the transcripts for this progr…
00:28:49 |
Sun 19 Aug 2018
Bugs and Drugs, and Chocolate Cake
In this episode of the eLife Podcast, signs that trees exchange genes over hundreds of kilometres, how our gut bacteria protect us from plant toxins, and new insights into the placebo effect... Get t…
00:31:30 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
BatNav, TB and Aspirin
In this eLife Podcast, echolocation in bats, chemical probes for open science, using aspirin to manage TB meningitis, brain topography, and combining science and parenthood... Get the references and …
00:34:25 |
Wed 30 May 2018
Robin Hood and Autism
How much of the world's scientific literature now sits in SciHub, we hear why statins might be making diabetes worse, if oxygen did - or didn't - hold back the evolution of multicellular life, the ne…
00:37:47 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
Ant Undertakers and the Human Cell Atlas
In this episode, we hear about disease control in insects, placental development, post-traumatic stress disorder, the mission to create a human cell atlas and how crickets amplify their song... Get t…
00:32:41 |
Mon 26 Feb 2018
Sperm Competitions
In this episode, we hear about self-esteem, a new genus of extinct horse, the future of biological engineering, tracking mosquitoes with mobile phones, and how a love rival causes salmon to increase …
00:30:06 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Is science getting harder to understand?
In this episode, we hear about tool use in monkeys, sleep regulation, marsupial placentas, health campaigns and why science papers are so hard to read. Get the references and the transcripts for this…
00:30:23 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
eLife at Five
In this special episode we hear about photosynthesis, forensics, peer review, and the past, present and future of eLife. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scie…
00:28:59 |
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Fish Recognise Fish Faces
In this episode of the eLife Podcast, biomarkers for epilepsy, how fish can recognise faces, insect anti-anti aphrodisiacs, and why striving for novelty may hinder the progress of science... Get the …
00:25:09 |
Sun 10 Sep 2017
Glowing Squid, and Electric Anxiety
Hear about the sea urchin immune system, symbiotic bacteria in squid, anxiety and a training course to promote collaboration between scientists. Get the references and the transcripts for this progra…
00:23:57 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
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