Science(ish)

Will we ever be able to turn invisible? The idea of magically disappearing has fascinated ... more

Have we all been poisoned? PFAS chemicals are all around us and almost certainly in your b... more

Will we inevitably all become Cyborgs? More than ever, we’re hearing from Silicon Valley t... more

Why aren’t there more cannibals? Through the unforgettable horror of Silence Of The Lambs,... more

Is the Force a real thing? Michael takes Rick on a mind bending tour through a galaxy far,... more

Looking to escape to another reality? Why not try a virtual one? In this episode Rick and ... more

Rick and Michael go full Westeros at a special live show from the Underbelly comedy festiv... more

Is there such a thing as a perfect predator? Rick and Michael kick off Season 5 with the m... more

How much does Geography inform History? Why did humanity first emerge where it did? What i... more

Will we ever be able to regrow limbs? The more we learn about the incredible regenerative ... more

Personality testing is a multi-billion dollar industry. But how reliable are assessments l... more

Does nature prefer hierarchy? When we look out into nature, we see hierarchical systems ev... more

Every year we produce over 2 billion tonnes of waste. That figure is only going up. Never ... more

What if we could control the weather? Inspired by the futuristic disaster film Geostorm, t... more

When Bryan Fogel’s 2017 docu-thriller Icarus exposed Russia's Olympic doping programme, it... more

Without volcanoes there would be no life on Earth. But just how afraid of supervolcanoes -... more

What better way to kick off Christmas than a deep dive into the ethics of sex robots? Expl... more

Could we be on the cusp of eradicating vision loss? Through the 2008 epidemic thriller ‘Bl... more

With the declaration of Trump’s ‘Space Force’, the domain of space is ever closer to becom... more

To kick off Series 4, Michael asked Rick to hit him as hard as he can… with knowledge! Thr... more

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics went to ‘a discovery that shook the world’, gravitational ... more

Just 66 years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, humans somehow managed to put a man... more