The perfect warm up to the World Cup final for the scientifically curious. The 21st Floor’s podcast looks at some of the psychological issues found in football – from the pressure of penalty shoot-outs to the grim phenomenon of football hooliganism.
And, not to mention, the prediction of our psychic turnip.

In which we battle Mediterranean thunderstorms to bring you discussion on that most thorny subject of topical debate: climate change.
We talk to Dr Andrew Russell and Professor Dan Sperling about the facts and the fallacies of global warming.

In this week’s “Enlightenment” podcast, the 21st Floor talks to Richard Wiseman, Peter Harrison and Alom Shaha about the link between magic and scepticism. What drives magicians to debunk?

This week, we look at the exciting and fascinating “terrible lizards” and the science behind investigating these extinct giants of the animal world. Some common dinosaur myths are put to the pyre and we and talk to Mike Taylor about everything you ever wanted to know about those gargantuan dinosaurs: the Sauropods.

In this week’s Enlightenment, Nick Pope and Chris French chat to us about unidentified flying objects: from how the government responds to sightings, to the psychology of sightings.

In paranormal circles, Edinburgh holds the honour of being “The Most Haunted City In Europe”. In this episode of Enlightenment, The 21st Floor examines some of the things that go bump in Auld Reekie, looking at some of the city’s spooky tales and the science behind them. Featuring Gordon Rutter, Prof Chris French, Dr Caroline Watt, and the Edinburgh Skeptics Society’s Ashley Price.

Our Enlightenment election special: covering the campaigns that aim to put science and skepticism at the fore of this year’s election.

Our “Enlightenment” series of podcasts continues. We travel to the other end of the size spectrum to look at the building blocks of reality itself, from Rutherford’s experiments in atomic theory to the Large Hadron Collider.

We speak to Oxford University professor of physics Frank Close, quantum theory physicist and popular science author Marcus Chown, and the ‘rock doctor’ Mark Lewney, who communicates string theory via the medium of RAWK guitar.

The first in our “Enlightenment” series of podcasts, dealing with cutting edge science and the people working at the frontiers of knowledge.

On this occasion, The 21st Floor travelled to the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Glasgow to chat to some of the scientists working on expanding our understanding of the universe.

Our first podcast: an extended interview with Martin Robbins of the layscientist.