It's another on-location podcast, this time from the South Bank, London! This week, aside from finding out about Nick's new job, we chat about the amazing aerial feats of swifts, automatic windscreen wipers and, erm, concrete. It's ALMOST as boring as you think. 

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S4 E7 London Podcast 2

Steve's been in the Bahama's. When he wasn't working on his tan, he was mainly hanging with the Google founder and finding out how bacteria have enabled a blind man to see!

S5E6 - I Was Blind But Now I Can See

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 . ..

SE5 E10 - Seaquirt Radio

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.

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S5E11 - Viscosity To Suit All Tastes

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!!!

S5E12 - The Ukrainian Farceur

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!

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S5E13 - Italian Swingers

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 ...

S5E14 Biofilm Head Torch And Silver Smurfs

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 ... .. . 

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S5 E15 T'was The Night Before Podmas

We're back from some special christmas treats in series 6 of the podcast. 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 loves explostions, while @theevanslab buys presents 

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Oh Chemis-tree, Oh Chemis-tree!

Nick and Steve are back for the launch of Series 6 of The Science Shed! We're diving straight into a fresh batch of science-infused delights from a windowless room deep in the depths of UCL. Nick’s uncovered some Cold War espionage, Steve’s brought along a surprise audio gift, and there’s plenty of snake oil to go around.

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S6 E1: Spies, Lies and Simeticone

In this pod, recorded WAY back in October, Nick updates us on Geoff Boycott's car keys for measuring cracks in cricket pitches, and Steve goes into the infrared to explore one of Herschel's most famous discoveries. We also find out about SpaceX's chopsticks and discuss how General Zod was freed from captivity by a nuclear bomb.

S6 E2 Cricket, infrared cricket and rocket chopsticks

Christmas Special 2025

Join Steve and Nick, for the second ramble through academia. This week we speak about the getting stopped by the police, using stem cells to harvest human organs from pigs and Nick's views on Brexit.

Episode 2 - Sound of the Police!

Welcome back to TheScienceShed - This week Nick and Steve talk about building chemical stickmen, why you should all cry at clocks and we discuss the unusual diet of Edwardian amphibians.... Enjoy! 

Episode 7 - Why is Nick crying?

Another podcast from your friendly ScienceShed pals Steve and Nick. This week find out why Steve's been tearing up old paint cans, which science TV presenter Nick fancies, and why the new Cathedral of Science might be just slightly annoying.....

Episode 9 - Old paint cans and diffraction gratings.

Nick and Steve are back again, and this week Nick almost gets annoyed to the point of violence in an argument over whether distilled water can kill you! Steve explains why he once drop-kicked a glass jar across a lab and you'll find out whether Superman really could have made the Earth spin backwards.

Episode 13 - Water FIGHT!

Yep you guessed it, Steve and Nick are back in TheScienceShed! This week - Nick makes canapés, we delve deep into understanding how to make bad tea, Nick nearly vomits at the MIT media lab, and we reminisce about an old Master System game.... Like favourite, subscribe share, enjoy! 

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Episode 14 - Master system games & How to make a cup of boiling ice...

Nick and Steve examine the offcuts of academia from TheScienceShed floor. This week Steve gets giddy from excitement over prisms and Nick finds a paper that may change the world...

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Episode 20 - Was Newton into crystal healing?

Nick and Steve (and our number one fan Brian) are back in TheScienceShed; This week we're talking about imposter syndrome and how the same molecule can be completely different... we're so meta, Enjoy!

LOVE YOU BYE!

Chemical Structure of Limonene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonene

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Episode 30 - I'm in love with the (chemical) shape of you

It's the second part to our @AdamBuxton BUG Special, this week, Steve is drunk applying for jobs at one of the worlds most foremost technology firms and Nick gets down and dirty with the Science of cats, instagram will be pleased....

Here's the link to the flea treatment compound https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Lufenuron_200.svg

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Episode 33 - BUG Special Pt 2: They may live in your balls!

Nick got married and Steve's in San Fransisco wearing flowers in his hair. To celebrate we have asked YOU to vote on your favourite things we've ever spoken about and these came top. No spoilers ;)

But there is a new mega jingle for all the die hard #shedlings. Don't worry we'll get back to normal soon.

LOVE YOU! - Steve and Nick

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Episode 34 - Best Bits, Mega Mixes and Fan Favourites

Spring has sprung in TheScienceShed with the help of Norman! This week Nick and Steve are taking on the science of internet dating and Nick channels his inner Harry and Lloyd looking for the world's most annoying sound... ENJOY love you bye!

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Episode 42 - What's the most annoying sound in the world?

ScienceVinyl Episode 2: 25 by Adele. This week we hear about Nick's love letters, Steve finds a giant ape, and uses physics to become a better sniper.

University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy.

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Show Notes
1.	"Hello"	
2.	"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"	
3.	"I Miss You"	
4.	"When We Were Young"	
5.	"Remedy"	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol_poisoning
6.	"Water Under the Bridge"	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8KDYcdiUI
7.	"River Lea"	https://expertphotography.com/the-worlds-most-expensive-photo-what-makes-it-so-great/
8.	"Love in the Dark"	
9.	"Million Years Ago"	
10.	"All I Ask""Sweetest Devotion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute

Science Vinyl - 25 by Adele

HO, HO, HO! Glad Tidings to you and your king. It's TheScienceShed Christmas podcast! This year Nick and Steve talk mix Science Vinyl with TheScienceShed, Nick buys Steve presents and Steve forgets. Happy 2019!

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Christmas Special 2018

In this episode, Steve and Nick explore the undergrowth of science through the medium of Miles Davis' 1959 modal jazz masterpiece, Kind of Blue.

They find out about blue-green algae and photosynthesising slugs, delve into the world of nanotech, and work out how being a bad drawer reflects your underlying stupidity.

Science Vinyl - Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

It's 2020, and we're back in the Shed for series/season 3! And we have a new member.... Eleanor!!! This week we get introduced to postdoc angst, learn about the science fraud websites https://retractionwatch.com/, https://pubpeer.com/ and https://forbetterscience.com/, and Steve tells us the quite incredible way in which yer quartz watch works. Plus there's a bit of politics from Boris....

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S3 Ep 1 - The Shed's got a new member! Plus, Quartz clocks, science fraud and Boris

It's week 2 of our second series and Steve STILL wants to go to space. Plus we discuss typos in grant application titles, Eleanor gives us more postdoc angst and Aussie Bruce turns up for a XXXX. Enjoy!

S3 Ep 2  - Missile Man, Brussel Grant, Placentology, Coffee Soapbox, Bruce

Eleanor puts up with Steve and Nick for yet another episode. This week were talking about drop kicking pugs, wacky editorial teams and how to kill zombies... pretty standard really. Please share and RT LOVE YOU!

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S3 Ep 3 - Drop Kicking Dogs

We're back in the Shed with a Nobel 2019 themed episode, this week we're hearing about Steve's failed grants, Nicks favourite place to scratch and Eleanor reigns supreme with a Ignobel quiz. Plus there's a new jingle!!!1

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S3 Ep 5 - Its a quiz, its a quiz, its a quiz quiz quiz

This week, Nick and Steve speak with old Science Shed friend, Dr Patrick McClure, virologist extraordinaire, who's currently on the front line in research against the coronavirus menace. Find out some virus basics, as well as why we might need to watch out for zombie voles in the UK in the future!!!

Science Shed Coronavirus Special

It's the conclusion of series 3, Eleanor, Nick and Steve are back in the shed to bicker about corona, dog corneas and the final postdoc soap box!

A HUGE thank you to @Elamanor for her wonderful help with the pod, we'll miss you!

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S3 Ep 6 - The Interphase podcast, and good bye Eleanor!?

This week Nick and Steve invite Alex Dickinson into the shed for a chat about the respirator that he and his colleagues rapidly designed to help protect clinical staff working with COVID-infected patients. We talk about learning to sew, dodging internet trolls, and Monty Python.

Science Shed Coronavirus Special II - PeRSo

Nick and Steven are waking you up with a cup of covid.  Steve's roof is leaking and smart people are better at detecting fake scientific statements... it must be nearly christmas!

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CupOfCovid 32 - Fake News! 13 Times Tables

This is the science podcast you need, it's the one you deserve. Nick and Steve and back with a COVID cuppa talking about BATS!

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CupOfCovid 33 - Besmirching Our Winged Brethren

Wash your mouth out! Today Steve has a look at the wild west of preprint archives, and finds an interesting study that investigates the effectiveness of mouthwash for getting rid of COVID. Is this more Trump? Or is it legit? Listen in and find out.

CupOfCovid 39 - Steves Monkey Gravity Theory

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