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PodcastBook club – Murder isn’t Easy by Carla Valentine
Delving into Agatha Christie’s pioneering forensic writing with special guests Raychelle Burks and Kathryn Harkup
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Book club – Life as We Made It by Beth Shapiro
A DNA researcher tells the story of how humans have shaped the evolution of living things on Earth
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Book club – Science in Black and White by Alondra Oubré
Exposing racially biased research by delving into the nature versus nurture debate
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Book club – Vampirology by Kathryn Harkup
A scientific investigation of vampires’ lust for blood and weakness to garlic
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Book club – The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Exposing how racism and sexism shapes science
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Book club – Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science by Luke O’Neill
Serious punk rock science
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Book club – The Poison Trials by Alisha Rankin
Clinical trials have come a long way since the 16th century
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Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
We celebrate 20 years of a popular chemistry classic – written by neurologist
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Cinnamaldehyde
How did a tree bark from Sri Lanka become one of the essential flavours of the festive season?
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Azidoazide azide
A compound so explosively unstable that nobody has been able to measure how sensitive it is without it, well, exploding
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Ionic liquids
Liquid salts, ionic melts, fused salts, or ionic glasses – call them what you like, these much-hyped solvents show great promise
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Chlorhexidine
An antimicrobial compound that kills bacteria and viruses quickly – found in some of the most colourful antiseptic solutions
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Asparagusic Acid
Does asparagus give you foul-smelling urine? Helen Arney investigates asparagusic acid, and the lavatorial genetic lottery that controls whether or not you can smell its distinctive aroma
