Podcast: Best of 2024: Science wrapped

We rewind 2024 to spotlight the most unforgettable science moments from the Ri podcasts.

Chemistry Climate

Podcast: Sustainable materials: Trick or treat? - with Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver unpacks whether our sustainable materials are actually sustainable and answers whether plastic can ever be fully

Biology and the human body

Podcast: The brain on exercise - with Dr Flaminia Ronca

Exercise neuroscientist Flaminia Ronca explains what actually happens to your brain when you exercise.

Biology and the human body History of science

Podcast: How women drove evolution - with Cat Bohannon

Cat Bohannon reveals insights from her book, Eve: How Women Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution, and highlights women’s pivotal

Chemistry

Podcast: The science of cheese - with Bronwen Percival

Bronwen Percival takes us from cheese production to the biochemistry underlying its notorious smell, and even some cheese

History of science Natural world

Podcast: Eggs, Evolution, and life on Earth - with Jules Howard

Zoologist and author Jules Howard explores evolution through a new lens: the egg.

Biology and the human body Brain

Podcast: The neuroscience of memory - with Charan Ranganath

Dr Charan Ranganath, renowned neuroscientist and author, discusses how and why we remember.

Biology and the human body Technology and engineering

Podcast: Ri on AI: The healthcare revolution – with Dr James Kinross

Dr James Kinross chats to Lisa Derry about the impacts of AI on healthcare, from medical publishing to robotic surgery.

Maths

Podcast: Geometry in Everyday Life - with the London Institute of Mathematical Sciences (LIMS)

Yang-Hui He and Madeleine Hall from LIMS explore how our modern understanding of geometry has evolved — from Euclid’s postulates