Science, Brain and other podcasts

The Neurobiology of Suicide

Bioterrorism and your brain

Is music the universal language?
One person's spoken language might sound like gobbledy gook to another - but when it comes to music do we beat to a common evolutionary drum? Could music be the universal language - linking minds across cultures and ancestral time? And, which came first - music or language? Don your headphones and climb aboard for an acoustic adventure. Does music lie at the heart...and brain...of what it means to be human?

You are not your brain scan! Critical reporting on the mind sciences

Communicating science
Science writer and broadcaster Len Fisher from the University of Bristol asks why so many people are ignorant about science and why it is regarded as such a hard subject in school and in daily life

Those who have ears
Brisbane educator Jennifer Riggs discusses children who have serious problems with auditory processing. Studies have shown that a third of us are strongly visual-spatial learners and many children cannot learn through being talked at, but will learn better by seeing and doing. The fundamentals of learning are the five senses, but how many of them do we use in teaching?

Polar bears and humming birds
Why do some people remain thin and others fat however much they seem to eat? Dr Hendrick Rensburg blames genes. But we can't go back to the supplier and trade in our genomes, so what are the options for losing weight in a healthy way? To find answers, Dr Rensburg goes back to nature, to polar bears who fast and humming birds which may eat three times their body weight in a day. His book Polar Bears and Humming Birds, A Medical Guide to Weight Loss, tries to dispel some dieting myths

Treatment for hypertension
Researchers at the University of Queensland have found that primary aldosteronism, a type of high blood pressure that can be cured by surgery, is ten times more common than previously suspected

AIDS in Africa

Social behaviour in bees

Scientology

Minds and Computers

The World Bank on Science and Technology for Development