TheScienceShed Steven Lee and Nick Evans

Merry Christmas pod fans!! Join us for a nice glass of egg nog and a plate of science in our #christmas #podcast. This week @SteveTheChemist makes friends with a new AI chatbot, while @theevanslab finds out about how viruses have become part of us... AIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiii ... .. .

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We 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 ...

S5E13 - 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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On the week before the Nobel Prize announcements, Nick takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the life of one of his science heroes, and famous Ukrainian scientist, George Gamow. Listen in and find out how this peripatetic physicist tried to escape Stalin's Russia by rowing across the Black Sea from Crimea (!), how he really should have won a Nobel, but didn't, and about when he saved his friend Max Born from being hanged. Meanwhile, Steve's gone part time at work (also called a sabbatical) so he can flog his microscopes in his new start up - get the inside track on how he made it happen and find out exactly how big his bank balance now is!!!

S5E11 - Viscosity To Suit All Tastes

Nick and Steve are back in the shed talking about Mud and what do do in an airplane explosion.

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Nick recounts tales of eating sea squirts and finds out a bit more about the chemistry of their flavour - 'ammonia dipped in boiled rubber' - while Steve gets locked out of his house again and does a Macgyver . ..