We take a trip to the future of heart and lung health, have a go at the lung lottery and make our own lung microbiome mix.

At a bustling Fringe, we meet engineers creating recyclable furniture, intelligent socks and innovations for disabled athletes.

From the control centre of his office at Imperial, Dr Sanjeev Gupta drives the Mars rover Curiosity, exploring sediments that formed in ancient lakes.

We round up this year’s Nobel Prizes and discover related work at Imperial, and get a preview of the next Fringe event.

The latest podcast discovers the future of design, explores the ancient lakes of Mars and takes a trip to the Heart and Lung Convenience Store.

Meet a chemist who went into space, a geologist solving medical mysteries and a team using 3D printing to improve joint surgery.

Dr Martin Jaere and his collaborators in the musculoskeletal lab are using advanced medical scans and 3D printing to improve the accuracy of joint surgery. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 30 September 2015)

Dr Jennifer le Blond has just returned from a trip to Nicaragua, where she’s been trying to work out why sugar cane workers are getting chronic kidney disease (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 30 September 2015)

Imperial’s new Operations Manager for the Department of Chemistry also happens to be the first Briton in space, Helen Sharman, who visited the Mir space station in 1991. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 30 September 2015)

The competition to give an Imperial-worthy name to an upgraded supercomputer, and the launch of an ambitious initiative to tackle drug-resistant infections. (Extract 1 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 30 September 2015)