TheScienceShed

Today Nick investigates whether Steve's dog could be trained to sniff out COVID-19 in people. He agrees it probably requires a dog with proper certification for hunting....

Has Nick had COVID? Find out today in this live reveal! Warning - there is blood.

Steve investigates claims that the US of A is really the best, oh yes, when it comes to COVID-19 response. According to his friend the big Don....

In this episode, Nick receives an important letter in the post requesting he joins the fight against COVID!! Steve has never been pregnant and therefore finds out for the first time what a 'Lateral Flow Assay' is.

Real science on coronavirus features this week from Steve's lab to back up some of Donald Trump's ideas! Find out what he's been up to and why Nick's* sceptical. *he's just bitter cos he hasn't done any covid science....

Today Steve finds an interesting paper on 5G and how it might induce coronavirus. Nick takes a measured approach to whacky papers in science. There is some swearing towards the end, be warned.

Today, Nick flies into a rage about the R number and what the hell it means. Steve calms him down with science. Argentinian dogs feature.

In impacts of science on patients, this was massive. Find out today about how dexamethasone was found to be useful in COVID-19 at lunchtime and was saving patients' lives by bedtime.

Wolves may not be going to the Champions' League next season (yet!!) but they're clearly ahead of the pack in terms of COVID-19 testing. Find out a bit more about some football-related coronavirus trivia in today's pod.

Today Steve does some sleuth-work to uncover the most-cited paper on COVID-19. Similarly to most organic chemistry synthesis papers, it's pretty unintelligible, but not for the reasons you think!!!

It's a CupOfCovid in TheScienceShed. The Interferons are coming to get us all! Luckily Nick is the here to help protect the innocent. 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 a CupOfCovid in TheScienceShed. Steve is annoyed that people don.t know how to fit data... Nick laughs 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

It's a CupOfCovid in TheScienceShed. Nick and Steve discuss how shark farms will save us from the evil virus 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

Viruses were very mysterious for a long, long time. Steve explores the history today, and learns that you can make one from bits and pieces in the lab,,,

Imperial have just started trialling their vaccine in people. But does it cut the mustard when compared to Oxford's? Today Nick and Steve explore the big differences between them

If Steve was around in the early 1900s, he'd not only have a dodgy moustache, but he'd be volunteering to get injected with Yellow Fever. Find out today about the first human virus to be pinned down....

In today's cup of COVID Nick explores why the coronavirus might make your blood clot - just what is it doing to those platelets? Spoiler - we still don't really know.....

Are mutants bad? Professor X doesn't think so. Today Steve explores viral mutations from coronavirus' point of view and comes to the same conclusion. Steve may not be a professor yet, but he's thinking in the same way!

Prestigious journals The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine get found out publishing COVID claptrap. Today Nick delves into the scandal....

Luke Skywalker famously once used womp rats to explain to us the significance of 2 metres. Today, Steve and Nick work out the science behind 2 metres in COVID social distancing. There's not a lot of it.

Trump LOVES hydroxychloroquine. It's SO perfect, I can't tell you. Believe me. Today we found out why it may work, or more probably why it won't.

These week Steve works out just how tiny viruses can be, and how mistakes are good!

Steve and Nick meet up for a Covid Cuppa to discuss some of the latest science surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. How much energy is there in COVID? 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, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed

Steve and Nick meet up for a Covid Cuppa to discuss some of the latest science surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. What's the chance of a second wave? 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, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed

Steve and Nick meet up for a Covid Cuppa to discuss some of the latest science surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Yesterday we tallking about the biggest virus - now it's time for the tiddler.. 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!