When you think of mercury, what springs to mind? Is it the entrancing drop of shimmery liquid that flows from a broken […]

Every summer, when the warm weather rolls around and the local ponds and lakes heat up enough for a tempting dip, remember […]

Our sign-off, “wash your hands, ya filthy animals”, has never been more appropriate than with this episode on puerperal or childbed fever, […]

A fluffy white fungus and a little brown bat. A deafening silence and an uncertain future. In this episode, we explore one […]

In this classic TPWKY episode we travel down rivers and into worm-laden nodes as we take a look at the complex world […]

Of the many topics our podcast has covered in the past, from smallpox to scurvy, vaccines to birth control and beyond, one […]

Despite being one of the earliest recognized genetic diseases, many aspects of Huntington’s disease remain shrouded in mystery. This stems in part […]

Don’t be daunted by the length of this disease name or just how difficult it looks to pronounce. By the end of […]

The world of human papillomaviruses is vast and varied, and causing cervical cancer is just one of the many roles these viruses […]

From the first skin grafts to the future of 3D printed organs, the science of organ transplantation has always seemed like something […]