Episodes

  • S5 E15 T'was The Night Before Podmas

    S5 E15 T'was The Night Before Podmas
    Dec 23 2022
    Merry Christmas pod fans!! Join us for a nice glass of egg nog and a plate of science in our #christmas #podcast. This week @SteveTheChemist makes friends with a new AI chatbot, while @theevanslab finds out about how viruses have become part of us... AIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiii ... .. . If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • S5E14 Biofilm Head Torch And Silver Smurfs

    S5E14 Biofilm Head Torch And Silver Smurfs
    Nov 30 2022
    We love squid, and what's better than a squid with a head torch made of bacteria? This week Nick finds out about this incredible biofilm symbiosis, while Steve investigates why eating silver makes you turn blue. Plus Nick's on the complaints warpath ...
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    39 mins
  • S5E13 - Italian Swingers

    S5E13 - Italian Swingers
    Nov 14 2022
    S5E13 - Italian Swingers Steve and Nick are back in the shed. This weeks Nick's been on his holidays in italy getting drunk and Steve gets propositioned by a billionaire at the Royal Society of Chemistry! If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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    35 mins
  • S5E12 - The Ukrainian Farceur

    S5E12 - The Ukrainian Farceur
    Sep 27 2022
    On the week before the Nobel Prize announcements, Nick takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the life of one of his science heroes, and famous Ukrainian scientist, George Gamow. Listen in and find out how this peripatetic physicist tried to escape Stalin's Russia by rowing across the Black Sea from Crimea (!), how he really should have won a Nobel, but didn't, and about when he saved his friend Max Born from being hanged. Meanwhile, Steve's gone part time at work (also called a sabbatical) so he can flog his microscopes in his new start up - get the inside track on how he made it happen and find out exactly how big his bank balance now is!!!
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    36 mins
  • S5E11 - Viscosity To Suit All Tastes

    S5E11 - Viscosity To Suit All Tastes
    Sep 16 2022
    S5E11 - Viscosity To Suit All Tastes Nick and Steve are back in the shed talking about Mud and what do do in an airplane explosion. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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    33 mins
  • SE5 E10 - Seaquirt Radio

    SE5 E10 - Seaquirt Radio
    Aug 6 2022
    Nick recounts tales of eating sea squirts and finds out a bit more about the chemistry of their flavour - 'ammonia dipped in boiled rubber' - while Steve gets locked out of his house again and does a Macgyver . ..
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    37 mins
  • SE5 E9 Life Finds A Way

    SE5 E9 Life Finds A Way
    Jul 13 2022
    In this week's pod, Nick's up in Brum, 'bone-ing up' (https://rss.com/podcasts/boneup/)with old friends at a conference, while we find out about variants of bacterial life emerging in Steve's bathroom - more specifically his hairspray. We also ramble about the pros and cons of PhD vivas in the UK and abroad.
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    40 mins
  • S5E8 - Korean Gold Rush!

    S5E8 - Korean Gold Rush!
    Jun 23 2022
    Season 5 Early Doors - Episode 8 Nick and Steve are waking up early to have a science chitchat before work... this week Steve's got the horn for Michael Faraday's Colloids and Nick is off swanning off to Asia. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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    31 mins