Guardian Science Podcasts

This week's edition of the podcast is dedicated to the Sense About Science Lecture 2013, given by the sci-fi writer and web activist Cory Doctorow.Cory's lecture was entitled "We get to choose: How to demand an internet that sets us free" and was delivered to an invited audience at The Institution of Engineering and Technology on 13 May.To find out more about Cory Doctorow's writings go to his website craphound.com.Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is […]

On this edition of the show Alok Jha meets Brian Clegg to discuss his latest book Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. Brian is a celebrated science author and communicator and in his latest book he tackles the conflict between the very human desire to see pattern and design everywhere and the fundamental randomness of the universe.Also on the podcast, news broke this week of a potentially life-changing breakthrough in the treatment of what is known as modic-related lower back […]

This week Camila Ruz meets Dr Helena Cronin, co-director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics, to discuss "sexuality after genetics" – the topic of a debate she will participate in as part of this year's How The Lights Get In Festival in Hay-On-Wye. Why are males and females so different? Why would one identical twin be gay while the other is straight? Dr Cronin, who specialises in the genetics of gender and sexuality, also explains why […]

It is one of the greatest social, scientific and political dilemmas facing humankind. This week's Science Weekly is dedicated to exploring the burning question that is the subject of Duncan Clark and Mike Berners-Lee's new book: how to leave vast untapped reserves of coal, gas and oil in the ground, and somehow find viable alternative forms of energy. Adam Vaughan, the Guardian's online environment editor, interviewed Clark, who is a consultant editor on the environment desk and visiting […]

Alok Jha is joined by Adam Rutherford to discuss how life began some 4bn years ago – and the manipulation of its blueprint, DNA, through genetic engineering. Adam's latest book, Creation: The Origin of Life/The Future of Life, is two books in one. The first details the latest research into how the first cellular life form emerged, and the second looks at the rapidly developing science of synthetic biology.To purchase Adam's book from the Guardian bookshop, click here.Subscribe for free via […]