The eLife Podcast: from eLife, the international journal for outstanding research in the life and biomedical sciences.

04 September 2020

How your ear muscles betray you and oily fish combats heart failure

30 June 2020

How sweetness takes away the pleasure of consuming and makes you eat more...

01 June 2020

How genetic plasticity enables sparrows to live alongside us, and fish to evolve rapidly to life in caves...

03 April 2020

Ebola, SARS, rabies... Bats are replete with lethal pathogens. But why?

06 March 2020

How some flowers have 2 dads, and is your genome at risk of getting hacked?

06 February 2020

Why antibodies to the infection disappear, and why we're cooler today than we used to be...

20 December 2019

What accounts for the bomb-proof biology of the tardigrade?

30 October 2019

How many DNA changes did Mum and Dad bestow upon each of us? And why too little sleep gives us a taste for junk food...

26 September 2019

How geese make it over the Himalayas, life aboard the ISS and organoids recreate a retina in a dish...

10 July 2019

The blind monkey that can see, wasps that fumigate to keep food fresh, and imaging blood vessels...

01 June 2019

eLife has a new Editor-in-Chief. Who is he, and what are his plans for the journal?

31 May 2019

Tracking malaria the molecular way, fossilised ant-defying beetles and a new editor-in-chief

26 April 2019

Impacts of measles vaccination campaigns, brain remodelling and multipartite viruses

29 March 2019

The shellfish that hunt using insulin, and brain pathways linked to addiction...

27 February 2019

Misidentified cultured cells, frogs that sing underwater, genes for longevity, and brain cell size and IQ

29 January 2019

Fungus-farming ants, smells and memory, deep sea species and the trust hormone...

19 December 2018

Nerves that taste salt, the first flowers and a fossil flying squirrel...

14 November 2018

The wildlife impact of urban sprawl, Devil Facial Tumour Disease 2 and how LSD works in the brain...

10 October 2018

How gut bacteria alter diabetes risk, and how the microbiome can manipulate your mood...

24 August 2018

How early life copied its genetic information, genes for pigeon plumage, and bovine TB...

03 July 2018

Conserving trees, gut bugs and drugs, and why there's always room for chocolate cake...

31 May 2018

Echolocation in bats, aspirin for treating TB, and a new way to map the brain...

28 March 2018

Science publishing, diabetes and coenzyme Q, oxygen and evolution, lip-reading, and autism...

26 February 2018

Disease control in insects, placental development, PTSD, and crickets make themselves louder...