TheScienceShed

Christmas Special 2025 by Steven Lee and Nick Evans

In this pod, recorded WAY back in October, Nick updates us on Geoff Boycott's car keys for measuring cracks in cricket pitches, and Steve goes into the infrared to explore one of Herschel's most famous discoveries. We also find out about SpaceX's chopsticks and discuss how General Zod was freed from captivity by a nuclear bomb.

Nick and Steve are back for the launch of Series 6 of The Science Shed! We're diving straight into a fresh batch of science-infused delights from a windowless room deep in the depths of UCL. Nick’s uncovered some Cold War espionage, Steve’s brought along a surprise audio gift, and there’s plenty of snake oil to go around. If you enjoy The Science Shed, the best way to support us is by sharing the...

We'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 r...

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 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,...

We 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 ...

S5E13 - 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, @th...

On 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 B...

S5E11 - 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

Nick 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 . ..

In 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.

Season 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...

Season 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 i...

Steve'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!

Steve & 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!

Steve & 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! tw...

In 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.

Season 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

Nick 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....

We'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!

It'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...

Nick 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

In 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.

Steve's gone coffee mad this week, kicking off an occasional feature on the science of coffee. Those barista hipsters know how to analyse their brews... Plus we find out about a gruesome accidental delivery to a lab, Brian has been vaccinated, and Nick's teenage metal band makes a debut audio appearance. James Hoffman coffee https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ Black Country Ne...

Nick and Steve (and Brian) are in back in their (vitual) shed for 4th Season. This week Nick is in search of silly names. Steve gets excited by stable earth orbits... we know its weird Please RT is you love us! Go away bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsO7XL2W7K0 Hate Beak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXKR9EWhXo Dread Zeppelin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CO7FPU7a2g If you like TheS...