Synopsis
A science podcast: join two research scientists - Steve and Nick - for an irreverent ramble through the undergrowth of academiafollow us on Twitter @SteveTheChemist and @theevanslab. Find us on iTunes (goo.gl/hwMEFG), and YouTube (goo.gl/GR6Vws)
Episodes
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Oh Chemis-tree, Oh Chemis-tree!
25/12/2024 Duration: 48minWe'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 If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on X, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! X @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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S5 E15 T'was The Night Before Podmas
23/12/2022 Duration: 01h03minMerry 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 ... .. . If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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S5E14 Biofilm Head Torch And Silver Smurfs
30/11/2022 Duration: 38minWe 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 ...
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S5E13 - Italian Swingers
14/11/2022 Duration: 35minS5E13 - 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! If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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S5E12 - The Ukrainian Farceur
27/09/2022 Duration: 35minOn 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!!!
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S5E11 - Viscosity To Suit All Tastes
16/09/2022 Duration: 32minS5E11 - Viscosity To Suit All Tastes Nick and Steve are back in the shed talking about Mud and what do do in an airplane explosion. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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SE5 E10 - Seaquirt Radio
06/08/2022 Duration: 37minNick 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 . ..
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SE5 E9 Life Finds A Way
13/07/2022 Duration: 40minIn this week's pod, Nick's up in Brum, 'bone-ing up' (https://rss.com/podcasts/boneup/)with old friends at a conference, while we find out about variants of bacterial life emerging in Steve's bathroom - more specifically his hairspray. We also ramble about the pros and cons of PhD vivas in the UK and abroad.
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S5E8 - Korean Gold Rush!
23/06/2022 Duration: 30minSeason 5 Early Doors - Episode 8 Nick and Steve are waking up early to have a science chitchat before work... this week Steve's got the horn for Michael Faraday's Colloids and Nick is off swanning off to Asia. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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S5E7 - Jenny Agutter's Death Ray
15/06/2022 Duration: 33minSeason 5 Early Doors - Episode 7 First off sorry about the sound on this one! Nick and Steve are waking up early to have a science chitchat before work... this week Steve's burning diamonds and Nick's got a new man crush on a Stem cell god. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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Episode 5.6 - I Was Blind But Now I Can See
19/05/2022 Duration: 26minSteve'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!
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S5E5 - Nicks Boring Birds... Splitters
09/05/2022 Duration: 26minSteve & Nick are back in Season 5 of TheScienceShed: Early Doors. In this week's episode, Nick's confusing the Judean People's Front with The Peoples Front of Judea and Steve can control cell growth with heavy metal If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes!
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S5E4 - The Parable Of The Pectinate Claw
31/03/2022 Duration: 29minSteve & Nick are back in Season 5 of TheScienceShed: Early Doors. In this week's episode, Steve shares his secret of how to make rats laugh by tickling them and Nick finds out how the now not-so-rare great white egret combs itself. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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S5E3 - Hearts & Rockets
25/03/2022 Duration: 34minIn this week's episode, Steve's celebrates his 40th birthday.... with a discussion about his boyf, Elon Musk and his crazy plan to colonise Mars. How many rockets? A lot. Meanwhile Nick finds out a bit more about the technology behind the world's first pig-heart-into-human transplant.
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S5E2 - Jack Rabbit Slims Moments
06/02/2022 Duration: 39minSeason 5 Early Doors - Episode 2 Nick and Steve are waking up early to have a science chitchat before wory... this week Nick's friends are ill in africa and Steve gets annoyed If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed
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Series 5 Episode 1 - Heat packs and Syndrome K
27/01/2022 Duration: 34minNick and Steve are back with another collection of pods! This week we find out what heat pads have to do with a novelty coke drink and Steve braves Dragon's Den to tell us about a wartime hero from Italy....
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S4 E8 - The Ultrasonic Cappuccino
21/10/2021 Duration: 35minWe're back, and a bit hungover, discussing asteroids, acoustics and alarming things you never knew.If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes!
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S4 E7 London Podcast 2
11/09/2021 Duration: 42minIt'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. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes!
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S4 E6 -The London Special
30/06/2021 Duration: 48minNick and Steve walk the streets of zone 1 wiith some science themed banter, were doing insulin, computers and cool female pilots. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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Episode 5 - Change At Cambridge, Temple G, David Davis & Foxgloves
28/05/2021 Duration: 42minIn today's pod, Steve wants to use car exhaust to teach chemistry at Cambridge but his colleagues aren't so convinced. Meanwhile Nick finds out about the perennially confused David Davis and his vitamin-based approach to COVID. We round off with some bantz about animal communication and poison Foxgloves.