Continuing our summer series of tales from the Laborastory, astrophysicist Katie Mack talks about meeting cosmologist Stephen Hawking and reveals her real science hero, and Lost in Science's Chris Lassig tells the story of Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb.

This December we celebrate Ada Lovelace, James Prescott Joule, Isaac Newton, Clara Barton, Louis Pasteur and... Maxwell's equations?

We look at new research showing how our brains perceive taste rather than our tongues. Also, have you ever wondered why birds fly in a V formation? And some citizen science programs for climate change adaptation.

Why do elephants hardly ever get Cancer? How long have humans kept bees? How did Einstein become famous for publishing his general theory of relativity?

We look at why hold off on that extra rash of bacon what controversy is happening by researching old bones in new ways and the ways vegetables can change your colour from the inside out

It's our annual Lost in Science Fiction episode, where we look at what Back to the Future 2 got right, check the feasibility of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and speculate about Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens.

In our most EXTREME show ever, find out about extremophile organisms that live in harsh environments, gravitational waves from supermassive black holes (or the lack thereof) and nanoscale optical sensors used in medicine.