How accurate are fitness trackers? ❤️🏃‍♀️🧘‍♂️💪 Greg Foot gets sweaty in the name of science to find out! From keeping count of your daily steps, to measuring your heart rate during a workout, to tracking how well you slept - fitness trackers promise a lot. But do they deliver?

Today's #PhysicsinAction event is drawing to an end and Greg Foot is wrapping up the day by taking us deep into the ocean in a high tech submersible. It has been a fantastic event packed with inspiring speakers coving topics from fusion energy to quantum computing!

Do you go for cow’s milk in your coffee or do you prefer a plant-based alternative? ☕️ What’s your fave? Oat? Almond? Coconut? Soya? Greg Foot finds out which plant-based milk alternative is the cream of the crop when it comes to both your health and the health of the planet

⚡️In the latest episode of his podcast ’Sliced Bread’ Greg Foot investigates two ‘electrotherapy’ devices that claim to use a mild electric current to boost your health: TENS Machines, that promise to reduce your pain, and Circulation Boosters, that claim to ease aching legs and

🍄☕️ Have you heard of mushroom coffee? 🤔 In the last of the current series of Sliced Bread, Greg Foot investigates the fungi-fuelled trend for coffees, teas, even hot chocolates, that contain so called “medicinal mushrooms” - the likes of Reishi, Cordyceps, Chaga or Lion’s

Why do we dream? Does our sleep affect our memory? What is our brain actually doing while we sleep? 😴 Julia, Ivana Rosenzweig and Greg Foot will be in conversation at the Crick on 17 April talking all things sleep 💤 Book your free ticket ➡️ hitsnooze.eventbrite.co.uk

Knowing a bit more about the fascinating science of sleep at The Francis Crick Institute with my favourite podcaster Greg Foot, Julia and Ivana Rosenzweig! 💤

On Wednesday, we are settling the debate on which is better… dishwashers or hand washing? Science journalist Greg Foot will explain how to get the most out of both methods, when it comes to saving water and energy. How do you wash your dishes? Which do you prefer and why?

🍽️ Dishwashers vs. Hand washing! Presenter Greg Foot from BBC Radio 4's Sliced Bread (available on BBC Sounds), investigates which method uses more water and which is more energy efficient. But what will be the winner? Watch this and find out...

Do LED face masks actually work, or do you end up just looking like a Doctor Who baddie? Greg Foot sets out to find the answer to this and more in his news series, now coming directly from our studio in Salford! Sliced Bread 🍞 | Listen on BBC Sounds 🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07…

🧀 So cheese may have the same molecules that you have in sweaty socks! 🧦😱 Sliced Bread continues as this week Greg Foot sets out see if air fresheners can really “eliminate” stinky odours with science, or do they just smell nicer? And what does using them do for our air

Rain’s gone, sun’s out, just as Greg Foot and the Sliced Bread team take to the stage BBC Radio 4 tent Hay Festival

What is real? On 3 July Crick researcher Tim Nguyen will be joined by comedian @julietteBurton and BBC’s Greg Foot to explore how hallucinations can reveal the inner workings of our brains. 🎟️ Free admission (booking required) 🕑 18:00-20:00 crick.ac.uk/whats-on/what-…

🧘‍♂️📌 Can lying on a spiky mat be relaxing? 🤔 Greg Foot investigates the wonder products promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, and this week he’s looking into acupressure mats for 12 year old listener Bradley. Sliced Bread 🍞 | Listen on BBC Sounds 🎧

Do ‘cholesterol lowering products’ work? 🤔 Greg Foot investigates the products promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, and this week he’s looking at yoghurt drinks and special spreads that claim to help lower your cholesterol. Sliced Bread | Listen on BBC Sounds

👂 Are the new designs of ear plugs you might have seen here on Instagram any better than traditional foam, wax or silicone options? Greg Foot investigates to find out whether they deliver on their claim. Recorded live at Hay Festival. Sliced Bread 🍞 | Listen on BBC Sounds

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🧬 🌍 How accurate are DNA Ancestry Tests? Ancestry Tests say they can uncover your origins and discover living relatives, but how do they work, are the results reliable, and is it safe to send your genetic material to these them? Greg Foot investigates in 'Sliced Bread'

How can research, policy, and local communities collaborate to restore ecosystems and revive our planet? Discover local success stories of thriving biodiversity. Join this #FrontiersForum webinar with Prof Thomas Crowther in conversation with Greg Foot