Our guest in this week's Science Weekly podcast is the nuclear physicist, Jim Al-Khalili. He has a neat sideline in science communication too and was recently awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize. This week he'll be presenting a new series called 'Atom' as part of the BBC's 'Science You Can't See' season. (There's a book that goes with the documentary by the way.)
He gives us a potted history of atoms and exotic nuclei, and goes into a bit of quantum theory, dark matter, and tells us about the newest and heaviest elements that occur naturally (and unnaturally) in the universe.
We also have a bunch of interviews carried out by Susan Blackmore for her book, "Conversations on Consciousness'". She talked to Dan Dennett - as well as Susan's VS Ramachandran and Francis Crick about consciousness and how science can answer some of the philosophical questions it raises.
Also, by the way, to hear Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre talking about Science and the media, head here to listen to our MediaTalk podcast. Do you agree with Ben that science is often reported badly in the media? How can newspapers and TV do better?
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