The Wired.co.uk Podcast

On the show this week we discuss military plans to create cyborg snails, Russia's plans to visit Venus, the BBC's rival to the iTunes Store and a social media-focused art gallery that brings privacy invasion into a whole new light. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

On the show this week we report back from Apple's iPad 3 launch, where we got to play with the new tablet in person. We also discuss the latest Higgs boson experiment, SimCity's return and journey inside F-Secure's R&D lab with Wired magazine's Greg Williams Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

On the show this week, fleas! Massive prehistoric fleas that is, because archaeologists have discovered fossils revealing that the ancestors of today's fleas were a lot bigger than the jumping critters of today. Also, the Mobile World Congress trade show is over for another year but we were in Barcelona to get hands-on with the smartphones and tablets you'll be seeing on sale over the next 12 months. We have a full report about that. And if you thought you couldn't fit the components of an entire functioning PC into a USB thumb drive, well, you'd be wrong. We'll explain why on the show today. All that and more is on today's podcast, so listen now and don't forget to subscribe in iTunes! Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

Who fancies a seven-day journey in an elevator to get 36,000 kilometers into space? One Japanese construction firm is planning on building a space elevator that would do just that. Plus a new system for operating electric wheelchairs has been conceived, and it uses a wheelchair user's tongue as a means of control. And should our government spend money to route an undersea fibre optic internet to St Helena's mere 4,000 residents? We'll debate that and much more on today's show. We also have a on-location feature at the new Blackfriars train station, which is the first in London to span the entire width of the Thames. Work on the 124-year-old Victorian bridge has taken months to complete in time for the London Olympic Games, and now includes the largest solar power array ever to feature on a bridge anywhere in the world. We'll take you inside the project and meet the people making it happen. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

The UK breeds and kills 800 million chickens in battery farms every year, but one man has a radical suggestion for a more humane way to do so, we'll discuss that in detail. Britain also shoots down an allegedly illegal non-UK music download site and makes some frightening threats to its former users. And why is our own Olivia Solon donating her brain to science when she dies? All that and more coming up on today's show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

If you've never listened to the Wired.co.uk Podcast before, this is a great episode to start with. On the show this week an 83-year-old lady gets a new lower jaw produced on a 3D-printer (generally we mean, not live on the show), a British firm has built a 32-megajoule Electromagnetic Railgun for the US Navy, and how do you feel about kissing an overseas lover using a pair of networked electronic lips fashioned into the shape of a small plastic pig? We also discuss the appeal to have Alan Turing posthumously pardoned, and delve into an audible tour of the Kinetica art fair -- you won't want to miss it! Catch that in the second half of the show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

This week we explore the fascinating story behind Tumblr, how the UK's ICT curriculum is set for a major reform and recap the most interesting news stories from Wired.co.uk this week -- the discovery of an original copy of the Mona Lisa, discoveries in the "unusual spider sex" world, the Pirate Bay's court appeal being rejected and Facebook's epic move to become a publicly-traded company. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

On the show this week the idea for temples for Britain's atheists take a step forward towards reality, the most worrying internet law to be considered in recent years gains worrying support by the EU, and a presidential hopeful in the US has astonishing plans to build a base... on the moon. We also explore Wired magazine's 2012 Smart List, find out what it is, and speak to some of the high-flying fellows who nominated each of the 50 people about to change the world that the list features. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

There could come a time where Greenwich does not set its clocks to Greenwich Mean Time, if a proposal to move Britain's clocks forward by an hour is passed; researchers at a university have created a sensitive acoustic device that can enable us to hear insects chewing (for a reason we'll explain); and the world record for how many times toilet paper can be folded has been broken. Plus, for the next few months the public are being welcomed to a three-dimensional photography project at the London Science Music, called "Me in 3D". It's a project being run in collaboration with the Great Ormond Street hospital and the goal, we discovered, is not just to amuse ourselves by manipulating our own faces on a computer screen, but to aid plastic surgeons at the hospital working with children born with facial deformities. Katie Scott investigates on this week's show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

We're back! The Wired.co.uk Podcast team returns to the microphones to discuss the hottest science, technology and weirdness news of the week. On today's show we round up the high-tech gadget fest known as CES. What are the trends, technologies and toys most worth paying attention to? We also question the usefulness of an interstellar dating service and pay a visit to Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday party to catch up with some of Britain's biggest physicists -- and talk to them about what they consider Professor Hawking's greatest achievements to be. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

It's the Wired.co.uk Podcast Christmas outtakes special -- 20 minutes of bits deemed a bit too off-topic, bizarre or daft to make the last 30-or-so episodes. Truth be told, when you hear the show each week, we have typically chopped out about 10 minutes from the original recording. We have a tendency to let our minds wander during some stories, and those mind wanderings often delve into the murky waters of the obscure and, sometimes, the silly. They're necessary tangents as they keep us fresh enough to discuss tough topics while keeping them accessible and entertaining. We just don't normally let people hear them. But it's Christmas, we're all at home and it seemed like the perfect time to let some of them out into the world. Enjoy! Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

On the show today we discuss that physics inched a little bit closer to being better understood this week as physicists at CERN announced they maybe caught a glimpse of something that could transpire to be the illusive Higgs boson. Also, Nasa is working on building a giant space harpoon to fire into speeding comets from a spacecraft, North Korea is miffed about Christmas trees, Newton's notebooks get digitised, and much cable cars come to the London's transport system. We also interview game developer Richard "Lord British" Garriott about his curious adventures into space. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.

On the show today, have we discovered Earth's twin? The Kepler space telescope this week has certainly found some compelling evidence, so we've looked into it to find out more and will be joined by Pamela Gay of Astronomy Cast in explain further. Bringing back the mammoths has become a step closer to being filed under "things that might actually happen", too. And why have scientists been racing cells across Petri dishes? Britain came fourth with its skin cell entry, but why? We'll find out that and more on this week's show. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott. Guest featuring Pamela Gay of Astronomy Cast

On this week's show, design studio Berg wants you to connect a tiny little printer up to your home internet connection to delivery miniature personalised newspapers of sorts, Spotify has taken a potentially huge step to appify the world of music streaming, and a dating service to match singles up based on what's left over in their fridge?! The very thought! Except it's true. Show produced by Nate Lanxon Hosts: Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Duncan Geere and contributions from Katie Scott.