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Christmas Special 2025 by Steven Lee and Nick Evans

In this pod, recorded WAY back in October, Nick updates us on Geoff Boycott's car keys for measuring cracks in cricket pitches, and Steve goes into the infrared to explore one of Herschel's most famous discoveries. We also find out about SpaceX's chopsticks and discuss how General Zod was freed from captivity by a nuclear bomb.

Nick and Steve are back for the launch of Series 6 of The Science Shed! We're diving straight into a fresh batch of science-infused delights from a windowless room deep in the depths of UCL. Nick’s uncovered some Cold War espionage, Steve’s brought along a surprise audio gift, and there’s plenty of snake oil to go around. If you enjoy The Science Shed, the best way to support us is by sharing the podcast on social media, following us on X, and leaving a rating or review on iTunes, it really helps! Find us on X: @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed

We're back from some special christmas treats in series 6 of the podcast. 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 loves explostions, while @theevanslab buys presents If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on X, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! X @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed

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 ... .. . If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed

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! If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed

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. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed

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 . ..

In this week's pod, Nick's up in Brum, 'bone-ing up' (https://rss.com/podcasts/boneup/)with old friends at a conference, while we find out about variants of bacterial life emerging in Steve's bathroom - more specifically his hairspray. We also ramble about the pros and cons of PhD vivas in the UK and abroad.

Season 5 Early Doors - Episode 8 Nick and Steve are waking up early to have a science chitchat before work... this week Steve's got the horn for Michael Faraday's Colloids and Nick is off swanning off to Asia. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed

Season 5 Early Doors - Episode 7 First off sorry about the sound on this one! Nick and Steve are waking up early to have a science chitchat before work... this week Steve's burning diamonds and Nick's got a new man crush on a Stem cell god. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed

Steve's been in the Bahama's. When he wasn't working on his tan, he was mainly hanging with the Google founder and finding out how bacteria have enabled a blind man to see!

Steve & Nick are back in Season 5 of TheScienceShed: Early Doors. In this week's episode, Nick's confusing the Judean People's Front with The Peoples Front of Judea and Steve can control cell growth with heavy metal If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes!