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The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Today we meet Nell the physicist to find out about a new astronomical object that she absolutely didn't make up. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Space monkey. 

Nell Grabham - Looks up, understands it. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Today we fly to Leeds to talk to Max about how to get kids to love numbers again.

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Runs the numbers

Max Hughes - Lovable maths clown

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the third in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - 4 Body Problem haver

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the second in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Crisp aficionado

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the first in a series where we watch 3 Body Problem, now on Netflix. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - NEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. This week we play off fusion power against AI, learn about some cool new killer whales, try to probe the minds of dogs and share cautionary tales. 

Starring: 

Chloe Slevin - Sperm whale defender

Steve Cross - Comedian and please book me I need money

Alice Morrell - Dog debunker

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. This week we try to solve a true crime mystery, get into parasite guts and ponder the true nature of reality. 

Starring: 

Chloe Slevin - Older than you remember

Steve Cross - Museum Metaphysicist

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/upcoming-gigs/

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. This week a science news roundup focussing on animals, emotion, not eating animals and the negative emotions caused by eating animals. Don't eat animals. 

Starring: 

Alice Morrell - Hippy overlord

Steve Cross - Education mastermind

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/upcoming-gigs/

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. This is a special episode recorded using the binaural technique which means you must wear headphones and not be anywhere too noisy to get the full effect. Today we'll learn Alice's greatest successes and darkest secrets. 

Starring: 

Alice Morrell - Animal criminal

Steve Cross - Nuclear power influencer and comedian

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/clevermakefunny

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. We tackle the hottest science news, big up MF DOOM, shame Chloe's lack of DIY skills and explain psychology. 

Starring: 

Chloe Slevin - Zoology communicator and seller of maths

Alice Morrell - Zebra chaser and all-around silly person

Steve Cross - Spokesperson for chaos goblins

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/clevermakefunny

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. Chloe is joined by podcast friends Eva and Emma to tackle all the big news of the week! 

Starring: 

Chloe Slevin - Reseach comms guru and fiancée

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/clevermakefunny

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. It's time to put Chloe's much-vaunted relationship advice skills to the test as she tackles hot questions from the internet's worst places. Plus what it's like to be in a statistics gameshow! 

Starring: 

Chloe Slevin - Zoology communicator and seller of maths

Alice Morrell - Zebra chaser and all-around silly person

Steve Cross - Microphone maestro and nerd celebrity

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/clevermakefunny

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Today we meet Kate Slade from the University of Lancaster to finally discover why our minds are in such a terrible state and why we've never won Olympic gold

Starring: 

Steve Cross - ADHD influencer and actually knows about sport

Chloe Slevin - Vacationer extraordinaire

Kate Slade - Future Vice-Chancellor

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. We look at cicadapcalypse, productivity tools, carbon capture, protein and the uselessness of men. 

Starring: 

Chloe Slevin - Zoology communicator and seller of maths

Alice Morrell - Zebra chaser and all-around silly person

Emily Harford - certified lord of fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/clevermakefunny

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. We look at our resolutions for the new year, spend too long debating the legality of canine cuisine, learn about marathon science and debate Hydro Homies. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

Chloe Slevin - Zoology communicator and seller of maths

Alice Morrell - Zebra chaser and all-around silly person

Let's Get Mean is on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/603760

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/clevermakefunny

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. Now in a new 2024 format! We look ahead and behind as we try to work out what the New Year has in store, using all our science nous. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

Chloe Sleighvin - Zoology communicator and seller of maths

Alice Morrell - Zebra chase and all-around silly person

Let's Get Mean is on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/603760

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. Today we review "Dementia: Hope the Future" fom BBC Wales and delve deep into the insides of our heads looking for juicy nuggets

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. Now in a new Christmas format! 

Starring: 

Steve Crossmas - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

Chloe Sleighvin - Extreme festive elf, zoologist and seller of maths

Sarmyrhh Jones - Geomicrobiologist and comedian

We cover all the big Christmas topics, like when is a bird a metaphor, do Reindeer have red noses and has Chloe actually done any research this time? I hope you like parasites, Good King Wenceslas! 

Let's Get Mean is on sale: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/603760

A short one this time listeners as Steve catches up with Miranda Burke from the University of Lancaster. They talk about tomatoes, carrots, and what podcasts might be like in a post-apocalyptic agrarian world. 

They also try to work out if either of them can afford to shop at Waitrose. 

Find Miranda at https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/miranda-burke2 and https://www.instagram.com/beeingmirands

And see your WOSP favourites on stage at https://www.scienceshowoff.org 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

What on Earth is hibernation? And why is it? Is it just a big nap with a posh name? 

Come see our co-hosts live: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

Biologists keep trying to bring things back. But why? How? And haven't they seen Jurassic Park? 

Come see our co-hosts live: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

With the news that STEVE can be seen in the skies above Britain, we went looking for science things named after us and we found STUFF. 

Come see our co-hosts live: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

We cover all the big science stories of the week including the Derby floods. We have a quick swipe at our second least favourite pub chain, and work out whather rats are more human than us. 

Come see our co-hosts live: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the eighth in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Pore little guy

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - founder of Science Showoff, comedian and nerd megastar

A special episode to leave you wincing and scratching as lice, flea and tick expert Gaia helps us work out what that weird feeling on our scalps and backs is. 

Come see our co-hosts live: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve is away so it's time to do the serious stuff he doesn't appreciate. The Nobel prizes have been announced and we're having to learn about attoseconds to understand them! 

Come see our co-hosts live: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

We're worried about an alien attack so Alice talks us through the concepts behind efficient slaughter, and Leah gets ready to use them on the invaders.

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Part of the WOSP/Science Showoff community is Never Explain, our comedy panel show with fighting and opinions. This week, a WOSP team took on all-comers (well, two comers). Find out who won! 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion Power

Chloë Slevin - Maths pusher and animal communicator

Pip Warren - Tenured scientist

Callum Stirling - Optical sensor type physicist engineer guy

Sarah Jones - Welsh scientific ambassador to London

COME AND SEE US LIVE https://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/upcoming-gigs/

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Rach Williams - chicken/mouse brain expert and festival science cheerleader

Sarah Jones - Welsh scientific ambassador to London

Join us for a journey through our mouths and into our brains as we share pickiness and the secrets of a good culinary life. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

This week we're catching up on all the corvid facts we realised that we didn't know in episode 12. 

Send your questions (especially your relationship advice questions) to wosp@scienceshowoff.org and we'll answer them real nice. 

Would you like to advertise with us? Drop us a line for packages and ideas. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Leah Morgan - the UK's face of fusion power

Max Hughes - maths pusher

This week we're counting the facts about Girl Math, as well as trying to understand DnD math, freelance math, ADHD math, 4-year old math and more.

Send your questions (especially your relationship advice questions) to wosp@scienceshowoff.org and we'll answer them real nice. 

Would you like to advertise with us? Drop us a line for packages and ideas. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Chloë Slevin - Zoologist and maths promoter

This week we're picking through the summer science stories, looking at psychology research with tiny sample sizes, debating whether correlation is causation (it isn't), trying to find the origin of multicellular life and more! 

Send your questions (especially your relationship advice questions) to wosp@scienceshowoff.org and we'll answer them real nice. 

Would you like to advertise with us? Drop us a line for packages and ideas. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Chloe Slevin - Zoologist and maths promoter

It's a rapid response and the first finding of a worm in the brain of a living human has us looking at parasites and their meaning in the world. 

Send your questions (especially your relationship advice questions) to wosp@scienceshowoff.org and we'll answer them real nice. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Leah Morgan, the UK's Face of Fusion Power

Anna Ploszajski, science writer and storyteller 

We handle this week's biggest science stories, including school bullying, whither the Duke of Edinburgh?, how to mini golf like a champ, dating Anna Ploszajski and more. 

Send your questions (especially your relationship advice questions) to wosp@scienceshowoff.org and we'll answer them real nice. 

Buy Anna's book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/handmade-9781472971081/

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Today we meet Jaimie Smithson from the University of Liverpool to find out about what's really going on in the sea, and how climate change is even going to ruin your fish n' chips. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Fish refuser

Chloe Slevin - Overcome with cephalopod fandom

Jaimie Smithson - Friend of all that lies beneath the waves

Go and get a ticket for the UK Science Comedy Festival! July 14th at Camden People's Theatre. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Leah Morgan, the UK's Face of Fusion Power

Chloë Slevin, research communications expert and fiancée

We handle this week's biggest science stories, including super conductors that don't super conduct, whether we work hard on Fridays or at all and most importantly we discuss whether the USA secretly has aliens in prison and has been stealing their tech. 

Send your questions (especially your relationship advice questions) to wosp@scienceshowoff.org and we'll answer them real nice. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Belle Taylor, medical technology communications guru and wedding refuser

Chloe Slevin, research communications expert and bridezilla

We handle this week's biggest science stories, including Ireland's lust for coke, Peppa Pig's prescience, the lack of reality on reality TV and more. 

Send your questions (especially your relationship advice questions) to wosp@scienceshowoff.org and we'll answer them real nice. 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Leah Morgan, squeezebox connoisseur and the UK's Face of Fusion Power

Sarah Jones, Welsh comedy genius and microbiologist.

We handle this week's biggest science stories, including trying ketamine as a depression treatment, making home chemistry experiments illegal, the legal status of the Isle of Man, whether crackers and cheese should be rebranded for the TikTok generation, war on flying ants and all the usual nonsense. 

Check out Sarah's new review at https://portlandpress.com/essaysbiochem/article/doi/10.1042/EBC20220257/233286/Mechanisms-of-bioleaching-iron-and-sulfur

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Belle Taylor, medical comms guru and adopted Scot

Sarah Jones, Welsh comedy genius and microbiologist.

We handle this week's biggest science stories, including the story of a gient patch of Ocean that's at the wrong height. We explore the science of ghosts, including whether maybe we have been the ghosts all along. Also includes: How do you win the trolley problem? Do science jobs exist? What should you do with a random human tooth? Does Haley Joel Osment deserve to suffer? 

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Kate Hunter, educator, actor and moulder of young minds. 

Sam McKaylin, AI wrangler and children's TV star

Callum Stirling, Physicist or engineer or something

We handle this week's biggest science stories, including getting someone who doesn't understand physics to cover the massive NANOGRAV revelations. Steve's been re-reading Calvin and Hobbes so we discuss lies to tell children about science that will help them to become better people. 

Also includes: Do plants talk to each other? What's wrong with British eggs? Dutch marine archaeology, microwaving UFOs, eating poo for medicine, removing curses from football grounds and all the other usual topics.

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Kate Hunter, educator, actor and moulder of young minds. 

Chloë Slevin, Zoologist and science festival specialist. 

We recognise that there's a war coming between humans, whales and octopuses/squid. So we watched Octopus, a straight-to-TV movie from 2000, to see what we can learn about how to fight our tentacled opponents. 

It's a great film if you love accent work, nuanced sexual politics, a flattering portrayal of the CIA, cruise liner discos, improv and massive octopuses (well, one massive octopus). You can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0hoJnaFWY

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Belle Taylor, fire chemist and healthtech comms expert.

Chloë Slevin, Zoologist and science festival specialist. 

We discuss CBeebies, pronunciation, killer whales, The Matrix?, multiverses, walking holidays, Saint Patrick, TikTok, Mars One, dogs being gross. You know, standard science stuff.

Visit Chloë at https://www.tiktok.com/@wormsgonewild

Visit Steve at http://drstevecross.com

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Leah Morgan, the UK's face of fusion power.

Chloë Slevin, Zoologist and science festival specialist. 

We discuss squid RNA, cannabis satellites, corporate video making, snake online dating, sheep lungs, chicken/mouse hybrids, pollution, filling desks with yoghurt, feral chickens and the UK tabloid press. Standard science stuff.

Finally the community behind the UK's longest-running science comedy series have had the idea of a podcast! 

Starring: 

Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff http://www.scienceshowoff.org comedian and nerd megastar

Leah Morgan, the UK's face of fusion power

Rach Williams, brain scientist and a fixture at every single science festival. 

We discuss gliding, kissing, Teasmades, meat, the universe, fusion power, our friends' Edinburgh shows, comedy and ADHD. Standard science stuff. 

Finally someone had this idea! 

From the people behind Science Showoff comes The World's Only Science Podcast.

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the seventh in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Wall fighter

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the sixth in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Poon Lim Enthusiast

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the fifth in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Haver of awkward conversations

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

Today we meet Dr Ally Grandison from the University of Surrey to learn about the science of language and using your kids to get favours from other scientists.

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Comedian and user of talking and that

Ally Grandison - Director of Surrey Baby Lab

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves. 

This is the fourth in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way. 

Starring: 

Steve Cross - Comedian and enabler

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org