BBC Radio Podcasts from Frontiers
Virtual Therapy
Quentin Cooper looks at the therapeutic possibilites of virtual reality.
Can Maths Combat Terrorism?
Can maths reveal hidden patterns in global terrorism? Dr Hannah Fry investigates.
Animal Personality
Prof Adam Hart explores a new field in zoology - animal personality.
Vagus Nerve
Can stimulating the vagus nerve improve health? Gaia Vince explores this new research area
New Space to Fly
Jack Stewart meets the pioneers redesigning our international airspace.
The Rosetta Mission
Billed as 'the sexiest space mission ever', did Rosetta's probe land safely on its comet?
Cosmology
Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang as announced in March?
Swarming robots
Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots.
Anaesthesia
Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.
Power Transmission
Gaia Vince looks at the future of power transmission.
Ageing and the brain
Do our mental powers really decline in old age?
Driverless cars
Jack Stewart meets the engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves.
Chronotypes
Linda Geddes explores research into the differences between morning and evening people.
Geo-engineering
Gaia Vince asks if geoengineering by blocking the sun could stop the earth warming up.
Nitrogen Fixing
Prof Andrea Sella looks at efforts to reduce our dependence on the Haber-Bosch process.
Self-Healing Materials
Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can mend themselves.
The Power of the Unconscious
The crucial role of our unconscious, and how scientists are now harnessing its powers.
Gut Microbiota
New insights into the important relationship we have with microbes that live in our gut.
Oxytocin
Linda Geddes asks if taking the hormone oxytocin can make people more sociable.
Crossrail - Tunnelling under London
How 26 miles of precision-engineered tunnels are created through London's erratic geology.
Plate Tectonics and Life
Roland Pease on the idea that life on early Earth led to the evolution of plate tectonics.
Whatever happened to biofuels?
Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.
19/06/2013
Can we beat bacteria by stopping the bugs from talking to each other?
Build Me a Brain
Roland Pease reports on scientists building brains from scratch in the lab.
Forensic Phonetics
Rebecca Morelle explores how the forensic science of speech is helping to solve crime.
05/12/2012
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
Brain Machine Interfaces
Geoff Watts looks into how scientists can use the mind to control artificial limbs.
Anthropocene
Has humanity launched a new geological time period? Gaia Vince on the Anthropocene Epoch.
Why do women live longer than men?
Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing.
Future of Particle Physics
Tracey Logan asks what particle physicists are doing after finding the Higgs boson.