TheScienceShed

It's a double of whammy of podcasts treats for all you ScienceShed-lings out there. This week's swapcast features special guest Dr Stuart Higgins of the wonderful podcast "Scientists Not the Science" (https://goo.gl/4p12fe), today we're talking about the super secret word to prove you're a chemist, DNA and Nick makes boring clays seem even more boring. Don't forget to check out Stuart's (much more...

It's our birthday and we'll cry if we want too! To celebrate TheScienceShed's first birthday we're telling the story of how the podcast was 'born'. Here's the YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLrcvQhCSgc&t=1128s Like, Favourite, Subscribe twitter: @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab

Episode 26 is here! This week Steve investigates what makes shoelaces spontaneously untie themselves and why the Schoville scale is a hot topic. Meanwhile Nick has a thumb through some of the wittier banners of the March for Science movement.

Chow down on the chocolate box of science that is #TheScienceShed; with swirls of caramel as Steven insults Nobel Laureates at Warwick University, chocolate truffles as Nick gets his old school books out... and wait look a delicious Strawberry Cream as Nick sells Steve fancy machines... Enjoy! PRETTY PLEASE leave us a review on iTunes. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send y...

Welcome back to your bimonthly delve into the academic wasteland that is the TheScienceShed. This week Nick and Steve talk about our failure to win awards, Nick finds a glow in the dark frog. Steve finds some hipsters with an excellent knowledge of the academic nanoparticle literature & Nick tells us how sugar can make you go blind. LOVEYOUBYE! PRETTY PLEASE leave us a review on iTunes. If you do,...

Yeah Boi! Bringing you sickest dance tracks straight from da shed. Vocals courtesy of Dr Nick Evans, written, produced and edited for the radio by Steven Lee.

Steve and Nick return to unclog the blocked u-bend of science. In this week's manic ramble - we discuss how Nick likes tea on trains, an angry Steve explains how a gin and tonic can save your life, what hungry hungry hippos has got to do with stem cell differentiation and finally we find out how the plague can help you build a telescope!..... phew that's a busy one. Plus there's a new song - and a...

Nick and Steve take a running leap off the diving board of academia straight into TheScienceShed. This week we're hung over but it doesn't stop us from making liquid metal at room temperature, Nick get angry over the bottom half of the internet and Steve tell the story of some of his research that has made it's way into real hospitals with real grown up doctors to use on real people. Here's the ta...

By popular demand TheScienceShed Jingles are here for your listening pleasure! I came across this paper! - vocals Dr Steven F. Lee Please share, review, like and subscribe. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send you a coveted ScienceShed sticker! Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed LOVEYOUBYE!

By popular demand it's TheScienceShed jingles for your listening pleasure. Steve's very first vocal attempt, postulating the question about the machinations of various phenomena AKA How does it work? Please share, review, like and subscribe. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send you a coveted ScienceShed sticker! Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed LOVEYOUB...

By popular demand TheScienceShed Jingles are here for you to enjoy. Here's a celebration of everyones favourite curmudgeon, Dr Nicholas Evans. Please share, review, like and subscribe. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send you a coveted ScienceShed sticker! Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed

As requested, here's TheScienceShed Jingles.... with lyrics! It's an interesting story on history corner, Sciencey history with plenty of mystery. I'm going to take you on a ride, to the science of the past. So put on your monocle, pour some port in your glass. The didn't have the internet, JZ or Game of thrones. But still they had some fun, inventing shit like telephones. Please share, review, li...

Counting down to another podcast in the city of Cambridge. This time Nick gets over-excited at the thought of Countdown, before Steve brings him back down to reality with MORE talk of Isaac Newton. And we discuss the likelihood of the Large Hadron Collider destroying Earth. Worth a bet? Please share, review, like and subscribe. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send you a cov...

Nick and Steve examine the offcuts of academia from TheScienceShed floor. This week Steve gets giddy from excitement over prisms and Nick finds a paper that may change the world... Please share, review, like and subscribe. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send you a coveted ScienceShed sticker! Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed www.youtube.com/channel/UCW...

We're back in TheScienceShed for the 19th time; This week Steve gets annoyed at Iron Man for violating the laws of thermodynamics, Nick sections coworkers for not working hard enough and we make a "star in a jar" Please share, review, like and subscribe. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send you a coveted ScienceShed sticker! Much love! S & N Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theeva...

Steve makes it snow indoors this week, before explaining how you might remove an embarrassing tattoo using the power of light. But he soon becomes unstuck in a challenge thrown down by an 11-year old version of Nick, transported through time from 1988. Does Steve really not know what chemistry is?! Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1...

This week TheScienceShed is 'dooun the cut' in the Black Country. Steve tells us about the rigours of academic life and the reason why meetings should sometimes be held at 7am. Nick vividly recounts a recent visit of the SuperVet to Southampton, and some recent advances in prosthetic legs. Oh, and we repay Brian Brain another visit.... twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed

TheScienceShed is on location! We're in the BFI on the Southbank in London podcasting from a bin. Join Nick and Steve as they talk about explosive glassware, horny toads and why the Express thinks Steve has solved Alzheimer's disease. Subscribe, Review on iTunes and Enjoy! Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg

Nick & Steve have guests in TheScienceShed! As a New Year's treat we are joined by fellow podcasters Dr. Steve Cross and Gregory Akerman who have a book podcast called Masterpiece Bookshelf. While working our way through Frankenstein we talk about creating life, the joy of being a lazy chemist and introduce everyone to our old friends - The Nanoputians. Share, Favourite, Review, Subscribe.... Enjo...

Glad Tidings to you and your king! Nick and Steve are in TheScienceShed for a Christmas special - with wine! This week we talk about the science behind Champagne, we exchange festive gifts, talk about dissolving diamonds and listen to the sound of two black holes colliding. We hope you had a fantastic 2016 and wish that all your controls experiments come true in the new year! Cheers! Here's the Yo...

Steve gets physical in Episode 15 and recounts a tale of punching a PhD student in the face. To lighten the mood, Nick draws Steve into a discussion of the things that inspired us to do science. We also find out how science helped prevent a murder in the Russian revolution, and Nick loses his rag over 'the roundest object in the universe'. Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed www....

Yep you guessed it, Steve and Nick are back in TheScienceShed! This week - Nick makes canapés, we delve deep into understanding how to make bad tea, Nick nearly vomits at the MIT media lab, and we reminisce about an old Master System game.... Like favourite, subscribe share, enjoy! Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg

Nick and Steve are back again, and this week Nick almost gets annoyed to the point of violence in an argument over whether distilled water can kill you! Steve explains why he once drop-kicked a glass jar across a lab and you'll find out whether Superman really could have made the Earth spin backwards.

We're knees deep in the sawdust of academic detritus that is TheScienceShed. In this week's ramble - Steve makes Nick work out how long the track on a record is and whether there are better regional accents for the lord of the rings characters... Plus there's a new jingle, enjoy! Here's the link to the YouTube clip we talk about (https://goo.gl/u5I4DZ)

Join your friendly neighbourhood academics Dr. Nick Evans and Dr. Steven Lee as you've never seen them before.....with Video! This is best enjoyed on YouTube rather than a podcast, so please check us out there (goo.gl/WKfu9J). In the first of our specials we talk about this year's Nobel announcements: nanorobots to fix Nick's earphones, David Bowie and Steve gets annoyed about dimensions. Enjoy...