Candles all-round as the EUSci podcast reaches its 60th episode! But we've not rested on our proverbial laurels, and we're back this week with some amazing science for your auditory pleasure. The news spot features new insights into the brains of mice, and the pill that might one day take you from sober to drunk in minutes. Our correspondents investigate how supercomputers have been applied to common puzzles, and clever new developments in silk manufacture, the EUWhat covers the effect of increased speed limits, and our discussion tackles the thorny issue (for the journals at least) of open-access publishing.

We're starting to feel Christmassy already this episode, bringing you a doublet of chilly stories from Antarctica and Mongolia, and with Dave getting all materialistic about some funky new substances. Brand-new podder Alasdair has a story on some novel GM rice, we have news including nocturnal orchids and bionic rabbits, a EUWhat on the misuse of antibiotics, and a discussion close to host Jon's heart- do computer games alter our brains?

This episode we stun our listeners with an above average content of physical science. Dave's in his element with a correspondent piece on destructive tactics being employed by chemists, and Jon leaves his bioscience element to tell us about a cloaking device for magnetic fields.

The hacks in our news spot tell you about a resurrected protein that could produce some new antibiotics, smart windows and the effect your views can have on your taste buds, and finally our discussion covers the recent controversy over faster-than-light neutrinos. Enjoy.

In this episode our furry friends the fruitbats return. The pod last saw them peforming fellatio with one another- but this time they're just defeating scientists' attempts to get them lost. In our other feature we hear exciting news of how drugs might one day be delivered to the brain, and our discussion centres on so-called wifi 'refugess', people who flee modern life for radio-dark zones close to radio telescopes.

Our Feature this week comes courtesy of foreign correspondant Ed Duca, with another great interview- this time with john Bohannon of Science Magazine.

Our EUWhat rounds things off as usual, with research on how power impacts on our propensity for monogamy.

In this episode, we bring you news and discussions about zombie ladybugs, bilingualism and the Higgs.

For our feature, Edward Duca interviews science blogger Ed Jong at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha.

Our Controversy of the Week deals with Measle vaccinations. Finally, in our EU-What?! segment we discuss the best way to board a passenger plane.

Frank Dondelinger went over to the Informatics Forum to talk to Artificial Intelligence researchers Sethu Vijayakumar and Austin Tate about the past and future of AI, the view of the public on robots and intelligent computers, The Terminator and other depictions of AI in the media, and whether we should be worried about Skynet taking over the world.

In this episode, we bring you news and discussions about gene therapy and wandering Jupiter.

Our Controversy of the Week deals with the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. Finally, in our EU-What?! segment we discuss whether one can become addicted to food.

How can a computer be made to do something most humans take for granted- recognise 3D shapes? What makes the human brain like a computer? These questions and more are tackled in this weeks episode as our correspondants look at computer vision, and own limited short-term memory capacity. Our discussion centres around the topical subject of sexism in the workplace, and we have tasty news stories for you including the dangers of sex with men from the future and the circular food chain employed by some microbes. Our EUWhat rounds things off with news of the signals men in fast cars are sending to women, and the way in which women receive them.

This episode of the EUSci podcast has a cellphone theme, with a correpondant story covering a possible link between colony collapse disorder in bees and mobile phones, and discussion of converversial research suggesting associations between some forms of cancer and mobile phone usage. We have another correpondant piece on the impact environment and genetics on MS, a EUWhat on what kids do when they think they're being watched, and the usual news and roundup sections.