Mosaic Science Podcast

Allergies such as peanut allergy and hay fever make millions of us miserable, but scientists aren’t even sure why they e... Read more

You may not think of the buzz and whine of insects as musical, but the distinctive pitch of mosquito wingbeats could tel... Read more

Using sleep deprivation to lift people out of severe depression may seem counterintuitive, but for some people, it’s the... Read more

Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies. Written... Read more

Calories consumed minus calories burned: it’s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it... Read more

"Despite all the ridicule and aversion and shame, we can no longer deny the emerging power of poo. Perhaps it's time to ... Read more

In this special episode,Mosaic's Editor Chrissie Giles interviews the doctor and best-selling writer Atul Gawande about ... Read more

Becoming allergic to meat turns your life upside down. Known as alpha-gal allergy, the condition dictates what you can e... Read more

One in ten people struggle to recognise their emotions. New research suggests a vital link between our ability to sense ... Read more

While it’s healthy to have a variety of bacteria in our guts, there’s one place where a single dominant type is best: th... Read more

"Cholera has killed nearly 9,000 Haitians. More than 730,000 people have been infected. It is the worst outbreak of the ... Read more

For the first 20 years of his life, Henry Nicholls had a healthy relationship with sleep. Shortly after his 21st birthda... Read more

Smiling is one of the fundamental ways people communicate, so what happens if your face can’t do it? Written by Neil Ste... Read more

When doctors in rural Italy began to see a surge in cancer cases, they were baffled. Then they made the link with indust... Read more

"Men have been circumcised for thousands of years, yet our thinking about the foreskin seems as muddled as ever. And a c... Read more

Food poverty is on the rise in rich countries. And evidence suggests the impact can last for years afterwards. Written b... Read more

Most of us would rather not think about what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new li... Read more

Is there real science in the spiritualism of meditation? Jo Marchant meets a Nobel Prize-winner who thinks so. Written b... Read more

In the 1970s, radical scientists thought they could change the world – if they could change science first. As told to Al... Read more

Marian Partington is working to forgive Rosemary West – one of her sister’s killers – because she thinks the only way to... Read more