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• Science Weekly podcast: unmasking the unconscious mind

  Audio (37min 40sec), 4 Jun 2012:

  American author and physicist Leonard Mlodinow explains his book Subliminal about the hidden machinations of the unconscious mind

• Science Weekly podcast: The world awaits the transit of Venus

  Audio (42min 47sec), 28 May 2012:

  The first global science collaboration to measure the transit of Venus in the 18th century; barrister Polly Higgins on 'ecocide'; and the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

• Science Weekly podcast: X Factor for scientists – FameLab

  Audio (41min 59sec), 21 May 2012:

  FameLab is an international competition to find the next generation of Attenboroughs, Coxes and Winstons. A 2012 winner, a finalist and TV science presenter Alice Roberts discuss the importance of great science communication

• Science Weekly podcast: Time warped

  Audio (49min 07sec), 14 May 2012:

  Claudia Hammond reveals how our perception of time is warped by physical and mental conditions

• Science Weekly podcast: Jonah Lehrer on creativity and the brain

  Audio (32min 25sec), 7 May 2012:

  The author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer, discusses what neuroscience can tell us about this apparently intangible talent

• Science Weekly Extra podcast: What has science ever done for us?

  Audio (73min 00sec), 1 May 2012:

  In the 2012 Sense About Science Lecture, Dick Taverne proposes that the development of science and democracy have gone hand in hand

• Science Weekly podcast: Are you getting enough sleep?

  Audio (42min 58sec), 30 Apr 2012:

  Russell Foster explains the importance of sleep, and John Sulston discusses the Royal Society's report on population and consumption

• Podcast: Science and comedy collide at the Festival of the Spoken Nerd

  Audio (40min 03sec), 23 Apr 2012:

  Science-themed comedy is all the rage. We meet the trio behind Festival of the Spoken Nerd, a touring variety show with an educational mission

• Science Weekly podcast: The hunt for Moby Duck

  Audio (41min 42sec), 16 Apr 2012:

  US writer Donovan Hohn discusses his epic search for a rubber duck lost at sea in his new book Moby Duck, plus John Whitfield on the science of reputation

• Science Weekly podcast: Daniel Everett on language

  Audio (45min 55sec), 9 Apr 2012:

  Linguist Daniel Everett discusses his book Language: The Cultural Tool and we have a report from the Gunther Van Hagen exhibition at the Natural History Museum, Animal Inside Out

• Science Weekly podcast: The joy of science demonstrations

  Audio (45min 06sec), 2 Apr 2012:

  Live at the Royal Institution, Alok Jha is joined by a host of guests performing spectacularly instructive demonstrations

• Take part in a live recording of our Science Weekly podcast at the Royal Institution - video

  Video (1min 43sec), 20 Mar 2012:

  The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast will be recorded live at the Royal Institution in London at 7pm on Wednesday 28 March, with special guests, demonstrations and lots of audience participation

• Podcast: Wired for culture

  Audio (19min 41sec), 19 Mar 2012:

  Professor of evolutionary biology Mark Pagel discusses how culture allowed humans to race ahead of other species more constrained by biological evolution

• Science Weekly podcast: Mental athletics at the Memory Olympics

  Audio (35min 09sec), 12 Mar 2012:

  Joshua Foer describes what it's like to compete in the USA Memory Championship, and we meet the master of ceremonies at the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams

• Science Weekly podcast: Equations that changed the world

  Audio (35min 34sec), 5 Mar 2012:

  Alok Jha talks to Ian Stewart about his new book showing how hidden mathematical gems rule our lives

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