The eLife Podcast

By Dr Chris Smith

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The eLife Podcast, from eLife, the researcher-led, open access digital publication for outstanding research in life science and biomedicine.

Episode Date
Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia
Apr 19, 2024
Apes reveal language origins, and being dyslexic in science
Mar 08, 2024
Bees can't taste pesticides, and how albatrosses get aloft
Nov 30, 2023
Cold haemoglobin, and teaching old dogs new ethics
Sep 29, 2023
How many friends for best brain health?
Jul 31, 2023
Social media and febrile fish
Jun 06, 2023
Ancient Genes and Trust in New Tech
Apr 11, 2023
Right handedness, and genes for hairiness
Mar 01, 2023
Rebuilding Dinosaurs and Stress from Siblings
Dec 15, 2022
Babies cry in utero, and pushing preprints
Nov 11, 2022
Urban microbiomes, and crushed cancers
Sep 16, 2022
Does Vaping Inflame the Brain?
Jul 04, 2022
Animal handedness, diabetes and dinosaurs
May 06, 2022
Human birth trigger genes, and clam cancer
Mar 17, 2022
Sediba's backbone, and antibacterial bacteria
Feb 07, 2022
Can Corals Resist Bleaching?
Dec 14, 2021
Does stress turn your hair grey?
Oct 18, 2021
The widowhood effect, and clapped out baboons
Jun 30, 2021
Motherless gorillas and how hummingbirds hum
May 28, 2021
Psychedelic drugs and river water bugs
Apr 15, 2021
Egyptian baboons and overlooked COVID genes
Feb 23, 2021
Sea slugs and anti-sickness drugs
Dec 17, 2020
AI for infertility, and scar-free healing
Nov 13, 2020
Prostate cancer prediction and bonobo culture
Oct 08, 2020
Ears, hearts, and halting Huntington's
Sep 04, 2020
Sugar on the brain, HIV, and science sex bias
Jun 30, 2020
Sparrows, cavefish and fighting fungus
Jun 01, 2020
Why do bats carry so many dread diseases?
Apr 03, 2020
The plants with three parents
Mar 06, 2020
Zika immunity and falling body temperatures
Feb 06, 2020
Tardigrades and the Ten Commandments
Dec 20, 2019
How many new mutations from Mum and Dad?
Oct 31, 2019
Astronauts, geese and realistic retinas
Sep 26, 2019
Brain basis of blindsight
Jul 09, 2019
Malaria and Myrmecophiles
May 30, 2019
Vaccines and viral swarms
Apr 26, 2019
Weaponised insulin
Mar 29, 2019
Dodgy cells and big neurons
Feb 26, 2019
Insect Farmers and oxytocin
Jan 29, 2019
Fossil Flowers, and Fur Seal Parasites
Dec 19, 2018
Transmissible Tumours and LSD Receptors
Nov 13, 2018
Inside Your Microbiome
Oct 07, 2018
Pigeon patterning and stiff lungs
Aug 19, 2018
Bugs and Drugs, and Chocolate Cake
Jul 03, 2018
BatNav, TB and Aspirin
May 30, 2018
Robin Hood and Autism
Mar 27, 2018
Ant Undertakers and the Human Cell Atlas
Feb 26, 2018
Sperm Competitions
Jan 16, 2018
Is science getting harder to understand?
Nov 22, 2017
eLife at Five
Oct 23, 2017
Fish Recognise Fish Faces
Sep 10, 2017
Glowing Squid, and Electric Anxiety
Jul 17, 2017
Spotlight on tropical diseases
Jun 13, 2017
Boosting your Intellect
Apr 27, 2017
How human handedness happens
Mar 30, 2017
Epilepsy and Sushi
Feb 21, 2017
Footprints of the past
Jan 26, 2017
Man's First Footsteps
Dec 15, 2016
Why don't Elephants get Cancer?
Nov 15, 2016
Proteins from Fossils
Oct 06, 2016
Who is tallest?
Aug 29, 2016
Seeing pain in the brain
Jun 29, 2016
Microbiome mind control, epilepsy and parastic worms
May 24, 2016
From antibiotic resistance to artificial fingertips
Mar 23, 2016
Monkeys that gamble
Feb 09, 2016
Mosquitoes home in on heat
Dec 23, 2015
Sleep and Reward Boost Recall
Nov 11, 2015
Escaping from Predators
Oct 01, 2015
Homo naledi
Sep 09, 2015
Magnetic Nerve Cells
Jul 26, 2015
Tinnitus and Mouse Ultrasound
Jun 23, 2015
Do newborns feel pain?
May 19, 2015
Herpes vaccine, and flies with brain damage
Apr 16, 2015
TB, and a Handshake
Mar 09, 2015
Stress, fertility and remote-controlled sperm
Feb 06, 2015
Synthetic cells, antivirals and sex pheromones
Dec 23, 2014
Flu, Cannabis and HIV
Oct 31, 2014
Cost of corruption, and Ebola
Sep 29, 2014
Making blind mice see and mosquitoes resistant to malaria
Jul 30, 2014
Why we don't (often) bite our tongues
Jun 10, 2014
Pain, gene therapy, and regenerating worms
Apr 29, 2014
Radiation, Anti-aphrodisiacs and Glowing Squid
Mar 30, 2014
Redeye, Spies and Bacteria
Feb 28, 2014
Rats won't rat on rats
Jan 31, 2014
Sedatives, Maths and Evolution
Jan 06, 2014
Bacteria and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Nov 29, 2013
Human Sperm, Gut Bugs and Decomposition
Oct 30, 2013
Undead Cells
Oct 06, 2013
Now hear this!
Aug 15, 2013
Plants keep Thyme, cancer drug resistance and clear corneas
Jul 15, 2013
Multicellular life, potato blight and Hepatitis B
Jun 15, 2013