The latest edition is a Festival special as our reporters get involved in research, take you on a tour and play along with some performances.

The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on Imperial's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service, with contributions from our roaming reporters.

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News: Psychedelics for depression and bio-glass for re-growing cartilage – a small pilot study shows early promise for using the active compound in magic mushrooms to treat depression and a bouncy bio-glass that could help repair damaged knees.

Festival report – From trackers in Hyde Park to the impact of music in the operating theatre, researchers were out in force at the Imperial Festival in early May. But it’s not all straightforward science – the community also flexed their performing muscles with music, dance and much more. Our reporting squad was out and about to capture a flavour of it all.

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