In this special episode of the eLife Podcast, we discuss diseases common in tropical countries including tuberculosis, Zika, malaria and schistosomiasis. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

This month in the eLife podcast, how yeast makes an important drug from a plant root, why worms want to kill of males, and are we gender neutral when we pick people to referee papers? Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

In this episode we hear about helping people with paralysis to communicate, how exposing mice to nicotine can affect their sons, scaffold-building parasites, the origins of human handedness and plain-language summaries of research. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

In this episode we hear about epilepsy, the sushi-belt model of transport in neurons, a mother in ancient Troy, the Amazon rainforest and bias in scientific reporting. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Unravelling the 6-million-year-long story of where we came from is a tricky business because palaeontologists have to rely on scarce, precious fossil remains that are hard to access and even harder to find in the first place. And there's a limit to what pieces of bone and teeth can reveal about our ancestors. But, occasionally, serendipity affords us a special glimpse into our past like it did in Laetoli, Tanzania, where a nearby erupting volcano captured the footsteps millions of years ago of a group of Australopithecines. In episode 34 of the eLife Podcast we heard from University of Perugia... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about fossil footprints, taking medical research to the clinic, sleepy flies, team-working ants and diversity in science. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about the first heartbeat, African sleeping sickness, elephant genetics, the rubber hand illusion and women in science. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ancient proteins, aging mice, mosquito nets, resourceful plants and cocktail party conversations. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about human height, fish joints, colour vision, chimpanzees using tools and open science. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about drug production, early career researchers, honeybees, human migrations and pain. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website