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TheScienceShedS6 E1: Spies, Lies and SimeticoneNick 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.
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Find us on X: @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheSci...2025-02-2849 min
TheScienceShedS5E14 Biofilm Head Torch And Silver SmurfsWe 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 ...2022-11-3038 min
TheScienceShedS5E13 - Italian SwingersS5E13 - 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!
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed2022-11-1435 minTheScienceShedS5E8 - Korean Gold Rush!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.
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed2022-06-2330 minTheScienceShedS5E7 - Jenny Agutter's Death RaySeason 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.
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed2022-06-1533 minTheScienceShedS5E5 - Nicks Boring Birds... SplittersSteve & 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
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TheScienceShedS5E4 - The Parable Of The Pectinate ClawSteve & 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.
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed2022-03-3129 minTheScienceShedS5E2 - Jack Rabbit Slims MomentsSeason 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
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TheScienceShedS4 EP 3 - In search of a Fluffy Backed Tit WarblerNick 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
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TheScienceShedS4 EP 2 - The Secret To Eternal LifeNick and Steve (and Brian) are in back in their (vitual) shed. This week we start a new series of disuccsions about space and Nick finds the secret to eternal life is definetely hidden in the guts of mice. Please RT is you love us!
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TheScienceShedS4 - The MiseryCast - Lockdown Special.Nick and Steve are back in the old format in lockdown miserycast.
Steve's moaning about CVs and Nick has some interesting ideas....
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TheScienceShedCupOfCovid 50 - Nick's Gone To IcelandIceland. Birthplace of Bjork and residence of John Grant. A place where you can eat whale and puffin freely and gaze at fractured landscapes of volcanoes and waterfalls. They also dealt pretty well with Covid, so Nick digs a bit deeper into it today....2020-12-1609 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 38 - Lockdown Don't Work... do they?Follow the data I hear you cry, this Week Nick and Steve are back for another cup of COVID. We're talking about lost notebooks of Darwin, shelf kilometers and Nick's lockdown sceptic friends....
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed2020-11-2512 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 32 - Fake News! 13 Times TablesNick and Steven are waking you up with a cup of covid. Steve's roof is leaking and smart people are better at detecting fake scientific statements... it must be nearly christmas!
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TheScienceShed is licensed under a Creative Commons License.2020-11-1307 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 27 - Dogs sniffing COVID-19Today 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....2020-08-1009 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 26 - Test Kit Part 2Has Nick had COVID? Find out today in this live reveal! Warning - there is blood.2020-08-1007 minTheScienceShedCupofCovid 24 - Nick is one of the chosen few...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.2020-08-1010 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 23 - Lee Lab Trump ScienceReal 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....2020-07-2607 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 22 - 5G WhackjobsToday 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.2020-07-2609 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 21 - The R NumberToday, Nick flies into a rage about the R number and what the hell it means. Steve calms him down with science. Argentinian dogs feature.2020-07-2609 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 17 - Cellular FartsIt's a CupOfCovid in TheScienceShed. The Interferons are coming to get us all! Luckily Nick is the here to help protect the innocent.
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed2020-07-1311 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 13 - Oxford v Imperial Vaccine FIGHT!!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 them2020-07-0410 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 11 - Sticky BloodIn 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.....2020-07-0406 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 9 - The Daily LancetPrestigious journals The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine get found out publishing COVID claptrap. Today Nick delves into the scandal....2020-06-2910 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 8 - Social Distancing ScienceLuke 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.2020-06-2907 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 5 - ThermodynamicsSteve 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?
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed2020-06-2306 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 4 - Second WaveSteve 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?
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed2020-06-1707 minTheScienceShedCupOfCovid 3 - The Smallest VirusSteve 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..
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed2020-06-0806 minTheScienceShedCup Of Covid 1 - OriginSteve and Nick meet up for a Covid Cuppa to discuss some of the latest science surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This time we find out how to grow a virus!2020-06-0405 min
TheScienceShedScience Shed Coronavirus Special II - PeRSoThis week Nick and Steve invite Alex Dickinson into the shed for a chat about the respirator that he and his colleagues rapidly designed to help protect clinical staff working with COVID-infected patients. We talk about learning to sew, dodging internet trolls, and Monty Python.2020-05-2843 minTheScienceShedS3 Ep 6 - The Interphase podcast, and good bye Eleanor!?It's the conclusion of series 3, Eleanor, Nick and Steve are back in the shed to bicker about corona, dog corneas and the final postdoc soap box!
A HUGE thank you to @Elamanor for her wonderful help with the pod, we'll miss you!
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed2020-05-2434 minTheScienceShedScience Shed Coronavirus SpecialThis week, Nick and Steve speak with old Science Shed friend, Dr Patrick McClure, virologist extraordinaire, who's currently on the front line in research against the coronavirus menace. Find out some virus basics, as well as why we might need to watch out for zombie voles in the UK in the future!!!2020-05-0452 min
TheScienceShedS3 e4 - Lightning, self experimentation and Gestation!This week Steve works out whether we can solve the energy crisis using thunderstorms, Eleanor brings us postdoc angst and her exciting, embryonic game and Nick shows how to hurt yourself in the lab.2020-03-1640 min
TheScienceShedS3 Ep 3 - Drop Kicking DogsEleanor puts up with Steve and Nick for yet another episode. This week were talking about drop kicking pugs, wacky editorial teams and how to kill zombies... pretty standard really. Please share and RT LOVE YOU!
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed2020-02-0929 min
TheScienceShedChristmas Special 2019ITS THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! Nick and Steve download their glad tidings directly into your earhole... Enjoy2019-12-2150 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - Moving Pictures by RushWe made it!!! It's the last in the series of Science Vinyl, with Nick finally getting his wish to play some Rush. Steve and Nick explore the Canadian Power Trio's 1981 masterpiece by delving into the mirky world of gender science, going on a 17th century witch hunt and by looking down the world's deepest hole.2019-07-141h 06
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - Hot Fuss by the KillersScienceVinyl Episode 7: Hot Fuss by The Killers
This week were going back to the very beginning of skinny jeans, converse and not-smart smartphones with Hot Fuss by the Killers.
University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy.
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Show Notes
1. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine"
Jennifer Anne Doudna (born February 19, 1964)[2] is an American biochemist. She is a Li Ka Shing Chancellor Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department...2019-06-1251 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - Kind of Blue by Miles DavisIn this episode, Steve and Nick explore the undergrowth of science through the medium of Miles Davis' 1959 modal jazz masterpiece, Kind of Blue.
They find out about blue-green algae and photosynthesising slugs, delve into the world of nanotech, and work out how being a bad drawer reflects your underlying stupidity.2019-03-2854 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - Innervisions by Stevie WonderSteve and Nick are back wondering through the wilderness of science. This week were talking lightsabers, anti depressants and nonsense papers in ScienceVinyl Episode 5, Innervisions by Stevie Wonder!
University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy.
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Show Notes.
1. Too High
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit
2. Visions
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084490
3. Living for the City
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2813%2900590-4/fulltext
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source...2019-03-0146 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - Visions Of A Life by Wolf AliceWe bravely continue the futile march onward from the trenches of ignorance into the no man's land of musical and scientific enlightenment. Its Science Vinyl Episode 4!- Wolf Alice Visions of a life
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Please follow us on Twitter @TheScienceShed or @ScienceVinyl @SteveTheChemist and @TheEvansLab2019-02-0453 min
TheScienceShedScience Nugget - Frog Night GogglesIn this science short, Steve and Nick delve into nature's own night goggles.... Can we see into the infrared?2019-02-0306 min
TheScienceShedScienceNugget 2 - More Than 7 BubblesIn the second our Science Nuggets, TheScienceShed duo Nick and Steve discuss the chemistry of CaH2 and why it's important to both jet planes, submarines, and Rock gods2019-01-2207 min
TheScienceShedScience Nugget 1 - Near Death ExperienceIn the first of our Science Nuggets, TheScienceShed duo Nick and Steve digest recent attempts to prove the existence of out-of-body experiences....2019-01-2108 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - IV by Led Zeppelin.ScienceVinyl Episode 3: IV by Led Zepplin, LETS ROCK!
This week we discover the meaning of pogonology, learn about cute little foxes and how to build a sky hook.
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Show Notes
1. Black Dog. Genomic responses to selection for tame/aggressive behaviors in the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) Xu Wang, Lenore Pipes, Lyudmila N. Trut, Yury Herbeck, Anastasiya V. Vladimirova, Rimma G. Gulevich, Anastasiya V. Kharlamova...2019-01-0744 min
TheScienceShedChristmas Special 2018HO, HO, HO! Glad Tidings to you and your king. It's TheScienceShed Christmas podcast! This year Nick and Steve talk mix Science Vinyl with TheScienceShed, Nick buys Steve presents and Steve forgets. Happy 2019!
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2018-12-2335 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - 25 by AdeleScienceVinyl Episode 2: 25 by Adele. This week we hear about Nick's love letters, Steve finds a giant ape, and uses physics to become a better sniper.
University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy.
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Show Notes
1. "Hello"
2. "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"
3. "I Miss You"
4. "When We Were Young"
5. "Remedy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol_poisoning
6. "Water Under the Bridge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8KDYcdiUI
7. "River Lea" https://expertphotography...2018-12-1752 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - The Bends by RadioheadThe Boys are back with a new format!
University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy.
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Show Notes
1. "Planet Telex" 4:19
2. "The Bends" 4:06
Henry, W. (1803). "Experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water, at different temperatures, and under different pressures". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 93: 29–274. doi:10.1098/rstl.1803.0004.
3. "High and Dry" 4:17
4. "Fake Plastic Trees" 4:50
Challenge of Synthetic Cellulose, SHIRO KOBAYASHI, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pola.20662
Anselme Payen, distinguished French chemist and pioneer ... - JStor
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24530133
5. "Bo...2018-12-0359 min
TheScienceShedScience Vinyl - ThemeUniversity Academics Nick and Steve are back from the shed to make a fool of themselves and share some science, introducing TheScienceShed, series 2: Science Vinyl!
Lyrics
Nothing on the TV
Antiques road trip is finishing
Bored of I’m a celebrity coz
Willoughby’s just not Mcpartlin
So grab a beer and have a bath
Put some toons inside my head
Relax and try and have a laugh
With the boys from in da shed
It’s Science Vinyl
Listening to Lionel
Ritchie and other tunes
Cos it Science Vinyl!!!!!!12018-12-0300 min
TheScienceShedWe're Ending The Podcast.... (sorta)Dearest Shedlings,
Nick and Steve have enjoyed the first 2 years of TheScienceShed, but it's time for a change, listen in to our short extro to season 1. We'll be back in the autumn we promise. In the mean time please contact us with ideas of what you would like to see, and what you would like less of.
For the last time in a while... LOVE YOU BYE!!!2018-07-0304 min
TheScienceShedTheScienceShed - LIVE!!!!We've got more visitors to the Shed than ever before, it's TheScienceShed: LIVE!!!!Recorded as a part of the years pint of science #pint18 in Southampton, Nick and Steve act like idiots for others entertainment. This week were talking about the science of Gin and Tonics and we get hot under collar talking about spice.
Apologies for the sound quality, Nick's fault (as usual)
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TheScienceShedEpisode 45 - Data Thugs, Cake And More MarathonsEpisode 45, and ahead of Nick and Steve's first LIVE podcast on Wed 16th of May, they chat about data thugs, why people might want to bake a version of their PhD, and whether marathons are good for your health.2018-05-1529 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 44 - The Three Pointless Tales Of Steven LeeEpisode 44 of TheScienceShed, this week is all about Steve and its all about pointless stories. Were talking break beaks, breaking glass and breaking out with three pointless tales.
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed2018-04-2925 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 43 - Novichok Nerve Agent SpecialWe're back in the shed podcasting from Steve's new flat in Finny P. This week Nick's teaching Steve about biochemistry, marathons and spy poisoning. It's a nerve agent special LOVE YOU BYE!
Buy tickets to TheScienceShed LIVE at this years Pint of Science here https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/through-the-lens
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed2018-04-1631 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 42 - What's the most annoying sound in the world?Spring has sprung in TheScienceShed with the help of Norman! This week Nick and Steve are taking on the science of internet dating and Nick channels his inner Harry and Lloyd looking for the world's most annoying sound... ENJOY love you bye!
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twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed2018-03-1131 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 41 - We are going to DIE!!!!Nick and Steven sink a birdie on the golf course of ignorance that is TheScienceShed - Episode 41. This week were talking about how catnip works, venomous centipedes and Nick finally find something Steve isn't lefty-liberal about, Love you bye!
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Show Notes:
Chemical Structure of Catnip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepetalactone
Catnap paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3834921
Poisonous Centipede: http...2018-02-2534 min
TheScienceShedSwapcast - Science MixtapeWE'VE GOT GUESTS! This week is a special podcast cross-over swapcast edition, where we're joined by Matilda Hay (@haymatilda) and Kyle Major (@wombatbutt )from Science Mixtape (https://audioboom.com/channel/sciencemixtape).
Nick and Steve recently got to torture their listeners with their 'eclectic' musical taste, and so this is a chance for the 'tape twosome to get even. We chat all things podcasts, with a bit of alien communication, plastic-chat and baby-talk thrown in. Enjoy!
Here's the link to us on ScienceMixtape https://goo.gl/3TkU6S
If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it...2018-02-1233 min
Science MixtapeThe Science Shed (ft. Steven Lee and Nick Evans)We're joined by "The Science Shed" podcasting duo Dr Steven Lee (physical chemist) and Dr Nick Evans (bioengineer) for a hilarious romp around some science with a few dirty secrets from their podcast thrown in for good measure. Plus a fluorescent experiment involving wine and tonic water, (and it's still safe to drink them both after).
The Science Shed is a fortnightly podcast where Steve and Nick take you on "an irreverent ramble through the undergrowth of academia", with jokes, anecdotes, and interesting science in equal measures. You can find their show on iTunes (goo.gl/hwMEFG) o...2018-02-1148 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 40 - Fitting An ElephantTheScienceShed appears in the valleys this week in front of Owen. In episode 40: Steve's mania gets to new heights, Nick manages to crowbar in 90s SciFi with research in his lab and Steve finds two papers in history corner about elephants. Love you Bye!
Here's the links to the elephant papers
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.3254017
& Dyson's meeting
https://www.nature.com/articles/427297a
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TheScienceShedEpisode 39 - Why don't rocket engines melt?Come and put away your rusty lawnmower of knowledge in TheScienceShed Episode 39!
Steve and Nick are back in Guys Hospital podcasting from the 29th Floor; this week were talking about the evolution of semantics in Papua New Guinea, deep sea diving and we share a nerdgasm in engineering about the space shuttle.
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2018-01-1428 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 38 - A lacklustre festive podcast; is Stomzy a rambler?HO, HO, HO! Glad Tidings to you and your king. It's TheScienceShed Christmas podcast! This year Nick and Steve talk about finding PhD thesis in charity shops and we introduce Christmas 'quick fire' science based around our favourite album of the year. Happy 2018!
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-12-3145 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 37 - Sat at home in my pants with a crown.The obnoxious narcissists are back in TheScienceShed. This week Steve talks about the chemistry of dentistry and his first experience doing a stand up comedy set at the first ever History Smashdown. Nick talks about Surgeon X and reviews a paper that he's not too happy with....
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-12-1736 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 36 - Stuff Banging Together!Steve and Nick hang ten on the gnarly wave that is TheScienceShed.
This week - we're talking about the lack of toilets in rural Scotland, Steve get's angry about the molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease and Nick explains how genetic therapies are no long the stuff of science fiction.
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-12-0332 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 35 - The Mushroom OdysseyWe're BACK!!!
Nick and Steve (& Brian) are back ScienceSheding from the 28th Floor of Guys Hospital in KCL. This week Nick takes us on on fungal safari as we learn what how alcoholics shouldn't eat mushrooms and why books should never be trusted.
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-11-1933 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 34 - Best Bits, Mega Mixes and Fan FavouritesNick got married and Steve's in San Fransisco wearing flowers in his hair. To celebrate we have asked YOU to vote on your favourite things we've ever spoken about and these came top. No spoilers ;)
But there is a new mega jingle for all the die hard #shedlings. Don't worry we'll get back to normal soon.
LOVE YOU! - Steve and Nick
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-10-2335 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 33 - BUG Special Pt 2: They may live in your balls!It's the second part to our @AdamBuxton BUG Special, this week, Steve is drunk applying for jobs at one of the worlds most foremost technology firms and Nick gets down and dirty with the Science of cats, instagram will be pleased....
Here's the link to the flea treatment compound https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Lufenuron_200.svg
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-10-0925 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 32 - BUG special: How do yeast smell?Nick and Steve are visiting London to see Adam Buxton's BUG show, so we thought we crowbar in some 'bug' related science. This week we're talking about Craft beers, naughty websites and mechanical computers.
here's a link to the computer bug (http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-92-13129)
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-09-2432 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 31 - Are you heavier in the morning?Everyone’s favourite university academics, Nick and Steve return again to the TheScienceShed achieving what no other science podcast can: the no science, science podcast!
It’s our summer holidays but that never stopped us talking about Monte Carlo simulations for cricket problems, Gin that contains a very special ingredient and we introduce the patented ScienceShed weight loss programme.
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-09-1028 min
TheScienceShedNerdBabble 1 - SurgeonHello to all the Shedlings! Nick and Steve have been hard at work in TheScienceShed development kitchen to create our latest new venture, NerdBabble; an extended conversation with interesting people about what their job is like and what they do. This week in the first NerdBabble we're talking to Dr Dave Gibbs about what it's like to be a surgeon.
Don't worry regularly scheduled programming will resume soon
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-08-2729 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 30 - I'm in love with the (chemical) shape of youNick and Steve (and our number one fan Brian) are back in TheScienceShed; This week we're talking about imposter syndrome and how the same molecule can be completely different... we're so meta, Enjoy!
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Chemical Structure of Limonene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonene
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-08-1335 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 29 - How can chemistry help you hide from submarines?Welcome to academia's best kept secret, TheScienceShed. Live from our underground test facility Steve and Nick speak about Bowie, birds and bonding! This week were in Nick's new gaff talking about DIY mishaps, how to stop it raining and more reasons why scientist are both poor and pig headed.
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-07-2932 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 28 - Cocktails, Condensers and CompetitionsIt's another special roving episode, and this time Steve and Nick are at Scout bar in east London. Scout has been described as '..a science lab, not a bar' by the Evening Standard and in this podcast the blotto scientists find out why. Steve and Nick have to try and guess the ingredients of 3 locally foraged cocktails, before venturing down to see the lab to find out how they're made. So pour yourself an Old Fashioned and listen in... ENJOY!
Many thanks to our special guests - Hamish Smith and Alan Sherwood @ Scout!
If you like TheScienceShed please leave...2017-07-1740 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 27 - Burnt to a CRISPRSchools out for Summer! But don't worry, TheScienceShed's here to for you as sip pina coladas by the pool.
This week we dedicate a whole episode to CRISPR, what is it and why it's important. Nick brings back his impression of immune cells and as a chemist,
Steve tries to not embarrass him self to much as he talks about vegetables.
Oh and this is what a bacteriophage looks like, weird huh? https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/121-a48/
Enjoy!
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Scientists not the ScienceManaging a Lab and TheScienceShed – Steven Lee and Nick EvansSteven Lee and Nick Evans are academics – together they present TheScienceShed podcast, a ramble through academic life. We talk about their experience of managing a research group and more. Full show notes:2017-06-1800 min
TheScienceShedSwapcast - SciNotSci - A Chemist, Biologist & Physicist walk into a bar...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 professional) interview of us on his channel. (https://goo.gl/Ktt2Zv)
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PRETTY PLEASE leave us a review on iTunes. If you do, tell us on twitter (@TheScienceShed) & we'll send you a...2017-06-1838 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 26 - Is a Jalfrezi hotter than a Madras?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.2017-06-0528 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 25 - The drink comes out sideways!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!
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-05-2127 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 24 - Is sugar poisonous?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.
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here's the link to the frog paper http://www.pnas.org/content/114/14/3672.abstract
twitter...2017-05-0731 min
TheScienceShedTheScienceShed Jingle - 6. In Da ClubYeah 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.2017-04-2700 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 23 - The manic podcast - ice in a f***ing cup!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 shout out to Level Up Human, The Royal Society & the lovely Dr Bov.
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PRETTY PLEASE leave us a...2017-04-2336 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 22 - Can tattoos cure cancer?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 tattoo paper we talk about - http://www.birpublications.org/doi/abs/10.1259/bjr.20160288
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Please share, review, like and subscribe. If you do, tell us on twitter...2017-04-0928 min
TheScienceShedTheScienceShed Jingles - 5. I Came Across This Paper...By popular demand TheScienceShed Jingles are here for your listening pleasure!
I came across this paper! - vocals Dr Steven F. Lee
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LOVEYOUBYE!2017-04-0300 min
TheScienceShedTheScienceShed Jingles - 3. What's Annoying Nick!By popular demand TheScienceShed Jingles are here for you to enjoy.
Here's a celebration of everyones favourite curmudgeon, Dr Nicholas Evans.
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Twitter @SteveTheChemist @theevanslab @TheScienceShed2017-04-0300 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 21 - Vorderman or Riley?!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?
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-03-2731 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 20 - Was Newton into crystal healing?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...
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-03-1235 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 19 - Who is the most powerful human?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"
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Much love! S & N
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-02-2533 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 18 - Tattoo removal with 11-year old NickSteve 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?!
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-02-1328 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 16 - Nick & his horny toads...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!
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2017-01-1533 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 15 - Scale bar violence & Russian Revolutions.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'.
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2016-12-1827 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 14 - Master system games & How to make a cup of boiling ice...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!
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg2016-12-0334 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 13 - Water FIGHT!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.2016-11-2032 min
TheScienceShedNobel Special 2016.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...2016-10-2341 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 11 - Nick gets naked & Steve's neanderthal DNA.Steve and Nick are back with another action-packed, anecdote-nuggeted science podcast. This time, find out why Nick's been getting naked in Austria and whether Steve's huge head means he's more Neanderthal than monkey.2016-10-2333 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 10 - The temples of the syrinx.We made it to Episode 10! This week your favourite academic scientists Nick and Steve are talking about how the Canadian rock band Rush makes Nick a better podcaster, the politics of grant panels and how to judge a book by its cover, enjoy!
Link to the paper (https://goo.gl/WVDiSq)2016-10-0930 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 9 - Old paint cans and diffraction gratings.Another podcast from your friendly ScienceShed pals Steve and Nick. This week find out why Steve's been tearing up old paint cans, which science TV presenter Nick fancies, and why the new Cathedral of Science might be just slightly annoying.....2016-09-2639 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 7 - Why is Nick crying?Welcome back to TheScienceShed - This week Nick and Steve talk about building chemical stickmen, why you should all cry at clocks and we discuss the unusual diet of Edwardian amphibians.... Enjoy!2016-08-2936 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 5 - How does mosquito repellent work?It's podcast 5, and this time Nick and Steve are in the Big Smoke. Join them for a romp through a trip to Hong Kong, a chinwag about how mosquitoes smell, some more post-Brexit fall-out in Scienceland, and find out what's been annoying Nick. It involves nudity. Mmmmmm.2016-07-3133 min
TheScienceShedEpisode 2 - Sound of the Police!Join Steve and Nick, for the second ramble through academia. This week we speak about the getting stopped by the police, using stem cells to harvest human organs from pigs and Nick's views on Brexit.2016-06-2031 min