Twitter: @AdamRutherford • @FryRsquared
Site: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dx75g
137 episodes
2016 to 2023
Average episode: 28 minutes
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Podcaster's summary: Science sleuths Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry investigate everyday mysteries sent by listeners.
| Episodes |
| 2023-Oct-02 • 14 minutes Introducing… Uncharted with Hannah Fry Tales of data and discovery with Hannah Fry. |
| 2023-Feb-14 • 42 minutes The Impossible Number What is the 'imaginary' number - and why is it so incredibly useful? |
| 2023-Feb-07 • 44 minutes The Mind Numbing Medicine 'How do anaesthetics work?' asks Alicia. |
| 2023-Jan-31 • 39 minutes The Resurrection Quest Can we bring extinct species back from the dead? |
| 2023-Jan-24 • 36 minutes The Puzzle of the Pyramids Did aliens build the pyramids!? |
| 2023-Jan-17 • 44 minutes The Magnetic Mystery What is a magnetic field? wonders Lucas. |
| 2023-Jan-10 • 43 minutes The Case of the Blind Mind's Eye 'Why can't I see images in my mind?' asks Jude from Australia. |
| 2023-Jan-05 • 12 minutes Silly Studies: The Pre-Series Teaser We’re almost back! As a cheeky aperitif, our sleuths review some surprising science. |
| 2022-Sep-20 • 39 minutes The Puzzle of the Plasma Doughnut “How does fusion work, and how can we do it safely on earth?” asks Les Walker |
| 2022-Sep-13 • 37 minutes The Riddle of Red-Eyes and Runny-Noses “Are allergies really on the increase?” wonders Ally |
| 2022-Sep-06 • 36 minutes The Problem of Infinite Pi(e) 'How did we discover pi? How do we know that it’s infinite and never repeats?' asks Alex. |
| 2022-Aug-30 • 39 minutes The Suspicious Smell Why do our bodies smell? And does our smell influence how much we like each other? |
| 2022-Aug-23 • 39 minutes The Wild and Windy Tale “How do winds start and why do they stop?” asks Georgina from the Isle of Wight |
| 2022-Aug-16 • 37 minutes The Case of The Missing Gorilla 'How can I be immersed in a book, and still notice my name?' asks Charlotte. |
| 2022-Aug-09 • 10 minutes Silly Studies: The Pre-Series Tease We’re back! Rutherford and Fry review the silliest studies sent in by Curios |
| 2022-Mar-24 • 36 minutes The Colour Conundrum 'How do we see colour - and why are some people colour blind?’ asks Maya Crocombe. |
| 2022-Mar-17 • 34 minutes The Turn of the Tide Why are tide times and ranges so different around the UK, asks Lynn? |
| 2022-Mar-10 • 34 minutes The Shocking White Hair Can human hair turn white overnight from shock? Hannah and Adam investigate greying hair. |
| 2022-Mar-03 • 33 minutes Surprising Symmetries We’ve got two eyes, two arms, two legs - but only one heart. Why!? asks Joanne. |
| 2022-Feb-24 • 35 minutes The Weird Waves of Wi-Fi “How does Wi-Fi work - is it magic?” asks Abby |
| 2022-Feb-17 • 34 minutes The Mystery of the Teenage Brain Why do my teens struggle to get out of bed in the morning? asks Michelle. |
| 2022-Feb-11 • 7 minutes We’re (almost) back! Rutherford and Fry return for a new series of scientific sleuthing |
| 2021-Dec-23 • 28 minutes Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: A Future for Humans The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures. |
| 2021-Dec-15 • 28 minutes Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: AI in the Economy The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures. |
| 2021-Dec-08 • 28 minutes Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: AI in Warfare The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures. |
| 2021-Dec-01 • 28 minutes Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: The Biggest Event in Human History The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures. |
| 2021-Nov-11 • 43 minutes The Venomous Vendetta Will a venomous snake die if it bites itself? asks Janni in Amsterdam |
| 2021-Nov-04 • 38 minutes The Slippery Situation 'What is the most slippy thing in the world?' asks 8 year old Evelyn from London |
| 2021-Oct-28 • 37 minutes The Painless Heart Why does my heart not ache after exercise? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate |
| 2021-Oct-21 • 40 minutes The Weirdness of Water Part 2/2 Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry attempt to answer more questions on why water is weird |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 37 minutes The Weirdness of Water Part 1/2 Please explain the weirdness of water? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2021-Oct-07 • 39 minutes The Guiding Hound How do guide dogs know where they're going? |
| 2021-Sep-30 • 9 minutes We’re back! The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry |
| 2021-Feb-23 • 29 minutes More Frytful Scares Why do people like to be scared? |
| 2021-Feb-16 • 30 minutes Back to The Sinister Hand What determines left or right handedness? asks Neal Shepperson |
| 2021-Feb-09 • 41 minutes A Weighty Matter Part 2/2 Is dark matter a fudge to fit existing theories to inexplicable observations? |
| 2021-Feb-02 • 43 minutes A Weighty Matter Part 1 How does gravity pull us? asks Emma |
| 2021-Jan-26 • 50 minutes The Flying Clock and the Stopped Watch Do individuals perceive time differently? asks Joe from North Yorkshire |
| 2021-Jan-19 • 45 minutes The Mosquito Conundrum What’s the point of mosquitoes? asks Cathy |
| 2021-Jan-12 • 50 minutes The Scientific Exploration of Astrology Could there be something to astrology? asks Dan in Australia |
| 2021-Jan-05 • 48 minutes The Noises That Make Us Cringe Why do some people find noises like a fork scraping a plate so terrible? |
| 2020-Dec-29 • 42 minutes The Pizza Diet Can I make a pizza that contains my recommended daily intake of everything? asks Paul |
| 2020-Dec-22 • 48 minutes The Good and Bad in Fungi "Why are some fungi helpful and others harmful?" asks Paul Glaister in Reading. |
| 2020-Dec-15 • 43 minutes The Martian Mission What would it take for humans to live on Mars? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2020-Dec-08 • 38 minutes The Hamster Power Hypothesis How many hamsters on wheels would it take to power London? |
| 2020-Dec-01 • 11 minutes We’re back! The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry |
| 2020-Jul-14 • 34 minutes The Space Burrito Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles. |
| 2020-Jul-07 • 41 minutes The Zedonk Problem What are ligons and tigers? What is a species? |
| 2020-Jun-30 • 44 minutes The End of Everything When and how is the universe going to end? |
| 2020-Jun-23 • 43 minutes The Sting in the Tail What’s the point of wasps? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate |
| 2020-Jun-16 • 34 minutes The Seeded Cloud Can we make it rain? |
| 2020-Jun-09 • 35 minutes The Growling Stomach Why do our tummies rumble - and when they do, does it always mean we are hungry? |
| 2020-Jun-03 • 2 minutes We’re back! A preview of series 16: Longer, louder and locked down. |
| 2020-Mar-06 • 38 minutes The Exotic Wormhole What are wormholes and do they really exist? |
| 2020-Feb-28 • 34 minutes A Cold Case Part 2 From cold feet to cold water swimming, Rutherford and Fry answer your chilling questions |
| 2020-Feb-21 • 34 minutes A Cold Case Part 1 Why do we get more colds in winter? |
| 2020-Feb-14 • 38 minutes The ASMRnswer What is ASMR and why does it only affect some people? |
| 2020-Feb-14 • 4 minutes Hannah's ASMR cocktail Hannah Fry mixes a mojito - listen after our episode on ASMR. |
| 2020-Feb-14 • 5 minutes Adam's ASMR cocktail Adam Rutherford concocts an Old Fashioned cocktail - listen after our episode on ASMR. |
| 2020-Feb-07 • 35 minutes The Power of Love How does love affect our brain? |
| 2020-Jan-31 • 28 minutes The Golden Secret How do you make gold? |
| 2020-Jan-24 • 13 minutes We’re Back! A preview of Series 15, plus more strange-but-true science papers |
| 2019-Dec-09 • 43 minutes The End of the World What would become the dominant species if, or when, humans go extinct? |
| 2019-Nov-22 • 35 minutes The Trouble Sum Weather Why is it so difficult to predict the weather? |
| 2019-Nov-15 • 32 minutes The Heart of the Antimatter How do you make antimatter? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2019-Nov-08 • 36 minutes Stephen Fry's Identity Crisis Stephen Fry asks the duo to investigate why he struggles to remember faces. |
| 2019-Nov-01 • 33 minutes A Frytful Scare Part 2 Rutherford and Fry board a rollercoaster to investigate why we enjoy being scared |
| 2019-Oct-25 • 31 minutes A Frytful Scare Part 1 Why do we enjoy horror? Rutherford and Fry explore the thrill of fear |
| 2019-Oct-18 • 14 minutes Curious Cases Returns Rutherford and Fry are back with an extended podcast trailer to celebrate the new series |
| 2019-May-03 • 37 minutes Jurassic Squawk What sound did dinosaurs make? |
| 2019-Apr-26 • 29 minutes The Lunar Land Pt2 What would life be like if we had two moons? |
| 2019-Apr-19 • 30 minutes The Lunar Land Pt 1 Where did the Moon come from? |
| 2019-Apr-12 • 39 minutes An Instrumental Case Why do instruments sound different? |
| 2019-Apr-05 • 28 minutes The Periodic Problem How do you discover a new chemical element? |
| 2019-Mar-29 • 35 minutes The Mesmerist Is hypnotism real? Drs Rutherford and Fry find out by visiting a hypnotist |
| 2019-Mar-22 • 4 minutes Coming Soon – More Curious Cases Hannah and Adam return to crack open the Curious Cases they’ll be examining in Series 13 |
| 2018-Dec-21 • 31 minutes The Horrible Hangover Why do we get hangovers and are some drinks worse than others? |
| 2018-Dec-14 • 26 minutes The Good Bad Food Why does bad food taste so good? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2018-Dec-07 • 31 minutes Two Infinities and Beyond - part 2 Is anything in the Universe infinite? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2018-Nov-30 • 32 minutes Two Infinities and Beyond - part 1 Does infinity exist? And why are some infinities bigger than others? |
| 2018-Nov-23 • 33 minutes The Stressful Scone Why do we have regional accents? |
| 2018-Nov-16 • 26 minutes The Viking Code How do ancestry DNA tests work? |
| 2018-Sep-07 • 34 minutes A World of Pain Why do we all have different pain thresholds? |
| 2018-Aug-31 • 26 minutes The Random Request Is anything really random? |
| 2018-Aug-24 • 38 minutes The Running Joke How fast can a human run? |
| 2018-Aug-17 • 25 minutes The Alien Enterprise Part 2 Are intelligent aliens out there? |
| 2018-Aug-10 • 26 minutes The Alien Enterprise Part 1 How do we look for alien life, and what are we expecting to find? |
| 2018-Jun-01 • 27 minutes The Dawn Chorus Why do birds sing? And why are some songs so complex? |
| 2018-May-25 • 25 minutes The Lucky Number How do I win the lottery? |
| 2018-May-18 • 26 minutes The Déjà Vu Why do we get déjà vu? |
| 2018-May-11 • 28 minutes The Human Instrument Why do our voices change as we get older? |
| 2018-May-04 • 27 minutes The Fifth Dimension Is there a fifth dimension? Hannah and Adam visit CERN to find out. |
| 2018-Mar-02 • 31 minutes The Cosmic Egg How do we measure the age of the universe? |
| 2018-Feb-28 • 24 minutes The Atomic Blade What makes things sharp? |
| 2018-Feb-23 • 29 minutes The Tiniest Dinosaur Which is the tiniest dinosaur? |
| 2018-Feb-16 • 23 minutes The Enigma of Sex, Part 2 Why don't we have more than two sexes? |
| 2018-Feb-09 • 25 minutes The Enigma of Sex, Part 1 Why does sex exist? And why aren't we all the same sex? |
| 2018-Jan-12 • 24 minutes Goldfinger's Moon Laser Could we shoot a laser to the moon? |
| 2018-Jan-05 • 26 minutes The Curious Face Off Are machines better than humans at identifying faces? |
| 2017-Dec-29 • 23 minutes The Cosmic Speed Limit Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2017-Dec-22 • 30 minutes The Dreadful Vegetable Why don't children like vegetables? |
| 2017-Dec-15 • 25 minutes The Baffled Bat How do bats echolocate? And why don't they get confused by neighbouring signals? |
| 2017-Sep-29 • 24 minutes Adventures in Dreamland Why do we dream? Drs Rutherford and Fry delve into the science of sleep. |
| 2017-Sep-22 • 29 minutes The Shocking Surprise Why do we get static shocks? Our science sleuths try to crack another case. |
| 2017-Sep-15 • 25 minutes The Sticky Song Why do tunes get stuck in our heads? And what makes some songs stickier than others? |
| 2017-Sep-08 • 20 minutes The Polar Opposite What would happen if the Earth's magnetic poles flipped? |
| 2017-Sep-01 • 20 minutes The Curious Cake-Off How to make the perfect sponge using the power of science. |
| 2017-Jun-16 • 21 minutes Kate Bush's Sonic Weapon Can sound kill? Inspired by a Kate Bush song, we ask whether sonic weapons could work. |
| 2017-Jun-15 • 21 minutes Itchy and Scratchy Why do we itch and should we scratch? |
| 2017-Jun-14 • 19 minutes The Burning Question What is fire? Is it a solid, liquid or a gas? Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry investigate. |
| 2017-Jun-02 • 23 minutes The Dark Star The science sleuths investigate the question 'What's inside a black hole?'. |
| 2017-May-19 • 19 minutes The Cat Who Came Back How do cats find their way back to their old home when they move house? |
| 2017-Mar-15 • 12 minutes A Code in Blood Why do we have different blood types? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2017-Mar-10 • 16 minutes The Forgetful Child Why don't we remember the first few years of our lives? |
| 2017-Mar-10 • 15 minutes The Astronomical Balloon 'How far up can a helium balloon go? Could it go out to space?' asks Juliet Gok, aged 9. |
| 2017-Mar-10 • 15 minutes The World That Turns 'Why does the Earth spin?' asks Joe Wills from Accra in Ghana. |
| 2017-Mar-10 • 17 minutes The Broken Stool How much does the bacteria inside my body weigh? |
| 2016-Dec-02 • 18 minutes The Lost Producer Why do some people have a terrible sense of direction? |
| 2016-Dec-02 • 15 minutes The Bad Moon Rising Does the full moon make us act strangely? |
| 2016-Dec-02 • 14 minutes The Hunt for Nothing, Part 2 How zero was discovered and why it allows us to forecast the future. |
| 2016-Dec-02 • 15 minutes The Hunt for Nothing, Part 1 Does nothing exist? Our scientific duo consider the nature of nothing. |
| 2016-Dec-02 • 15 minutes The Melodic Mystery 'Why is my mother tone deaf?' asks listener Simon. The team investigates. |
| 2016-Oct-07 • 16 minutes The Strongest Substance What is the strongest thing in the universe? |
| 2016-Oct-05 • 15 minutes The Space Pirate Could we live on another planet? |
| 2016-Oct-05 • 14 minutes The Portly Problem What causes middle-aged spread? |
| 2016-Oct-04 • 14 minutes The Sinister Hand Part 2 How being left-handed affects your brain and behaviour. |
| 2016-Oct-03 • 14 minutes The Sinister Hand Part 1 What makes people left-handed? |
| 2016-Jun-02 • 16 minutes The Counting Horse Can horses count? And which animal is the best at maths? |
| 2016-May-30 • 17 minutes The Hairy Hominid How does leg hair know to grow back the same length? And why do we have body hair? |
| 2016-May-26 • 16 minutes A Study in Spheres Why is everything in space round? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate. |
| 2016-May-26 • 15 minutes The Psychic Tear Why do we cry, and does it makes us feel better? |
| 2016-May-26 • 19 minutes The Tea Leaf Mystery What's the optimum scientific method for making the perfect cup of tea? |
| 2016-Feb-18 • 14 minutes The Stellar Dustbin Can we send our waste into the sun? Drs Rutherford & Fry investigate. |
| 2016-Feb-11 • 13 minutes The Squeamish Swoon Why do we faint, and does it serve any useful purpose? |
| 2016-Feb-11 • 12 minutes The Aural Voyeur Why do people shout on their mobile phones? |
| 2016-Feb-11 • 13 minutes The Phantom Jam What makes traffic jam? Rutherford & Fry search for a solution. |
| 2016-Feb-11 • 14 minutes The Scarlet Mark Why are gingers ginger, and are redheads dying out? |