Instant Genius Podcast
From the creators of BBC Science Focus, Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. With each episode, a different world-leading expert will help you understand the latest ideas and research in the world of science and tech. We want to make you an expert in everything.
Instant Genius Podcast | Do you have synaesthesia? Why some of us can taste words
Do you experience sounds or music visually as certain shapes? Or 'hear' colours?
Instant Genius Podcast | Why you’re not actually addicted to your phone
Not all social media is unhealthy – here's how to rethink your relationship to it.
Instant Genius Podcast | How personalised medicine is about to change healthcare forever
The new power of precision treatments, explained.
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Instant Genius Podcast | How some of the best discoveries in space were made by accident
Science isn't all lab coats and lightbulb moments.
Instant Genius Podcast | The surprising role of clouds in climate change
They're much more than rainmakers.
Instant Genius Podcast | Why giraffes are undergoing a silent extinction
The world's tallest land animal is facing extinction despite its fame.
Instant Genius Podcast | Why we are seeing the return of infectious diseases
Measles, plague, and cholera are re-emerging – is this a sign of a coming pandemic?
Instant Genius Podcast | How to overcome social paranoia and anxiety
A psychologist explains simple ways to crush social paranoia by building your self-esteem.
Instant Genius Podcast: | How to reclaim your motivation
Feeling aimlessness? Listless? If so, you could be languishing.
Instant Genius Podcast | How the Placebo effect actually works
How people can be healed without actual treatment.
Instant Genius Podcast | How to get better at being bored
What boredom is actually signalling to your body, explained by a neuroscientist.
Instant Genius Podcast | How animals speak to each other
Fun fact: Dolphins give themselves names.
Instant Genius Podcast | The strange science of why humans need laughter
The connection between laughter and your immune system, and what really happens when you get the giggles.
Instant Genius Podcast | The world's hidden hedgehog crisis
Why their numbers are falling – and how we can help them recover.
Instant Genius Podcast | How to actually lose weight, according to science
Simple ways to transform unhealthy eating habits and master your metabolism.
Instant Genius Podcast | Is the avocado a nutritional superfood or environmental disaster?
Just how healthy – both to your body and planet Earth – is the ever-popular fruit?
Instant Genius Podcast | How to pace yourself in an exhausting world
Science-proven tips for having more energy throughout your day.
Instant Genius Podcast | The science of the paranormal
Why we see ghosts, UFOs and visions of our past lives.
Instant Genius Podcast | Has the Moon entered a new epoch?
Here's how humans could have changed the lunar surface forever.
Instant Genius Podcast: How to finally master your email inbox
The worrying impact of an overflowing inbox on your mental health – and what to do about it.
Solving the world’s plastic pollution problem
How widespread plastic pollution is – and what we can do to finally tackle the problem.
How can we make our food more secure?
Prof Tim Benton, research director at Chatham House, explains how our food sources impacts the planet.
What mass extinctions can teach us about the future of life on Earth
Inside the surprising and numerous mass extinctions in our planet's history.
Instant Genius Podcast | Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains the Universe’s greatest mysteries
What’s beyond our Universe? Will time travel ever be possible? And what might aliens look like? The acclaimed astrophysicist answers all.