NASA isn't the only space agency any more. There are actually quite a few knocking about around the world - even the UK has one! We are now living in an era of renewed interest in human spaceflight and many of these agencies are looking for those men and women who will lead the exploration past the Moon and beyond. So you want to be an astronaut?

On today's show, we talk to University of Nottingham alumni and almost-astronaut Simon Coggins about the job interview for becoming an astronaut. Stay tuned to learn the secrets of the job of a lifetime!

• About Simon
• The Interview Process
• Where are they now?
• Student Science
• Science in the News

Spiders. Just uttering that word around some people can send shivers up the spine and electrical signals to muscles in their legs, catapulting them out the room. Our guest today, Dr. Sara Goodacre from the School of Biology, deals with spiders on a daily basis and has found that spiders are more than just creepy crawlies we tell ourselves aren't in the walls...

Female Tarantula showing defensive hair loss...Dr Goodacre is an evolutionary biologist, looking at spiders in particular detail, working in Nottingham's 'SpiderLab'. For example, their choice to let the wind disperse them around the environment is of interest, as is the odd fact that some species of spider have many more females than males - something never seen in Physics.

On today's show, we talk you through the life of spiders and bust those spider myths you've grown up with. From the smallest (~millimetres) and to the largest (~12 inches), we have all your spider needs covered!

How many spiders are in your warm and comfy Unipol-accredited house? Find out Monday 11th February, 6-7pm only on URN...

After the (blisteringly cold) success of last year, The Science Show are once again venturing out of the comforts of the studio and broadcasting LIVE from the observatory on the roof of the physics building.

Jupiter and its Moons: Will our telescope match this kind of power?

Join us on our adventure through space as the team and this weeks special guest Jamie Ownsworth explain to you why stars appear as different colours in the sky, what a supernova is, and how to find different constellations.

If the weather plays ball as it is this morning we may even get some snaps of the night sky such as Jupiter's moons, our just our own moon if we are feeling uninspired.

Will we get some pictures? Will the weather (and our guest) behave? Or will we possibly suffer an embarrassing power cut like the Super Bowl did last night?

There's only one way to find out. tune in tonight at 6pm, only on urn1350.net

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The Broadcast Begins!

So we are here, live at the telescopes at the University of Nottingham. We are all set up and ready to go!

Here at The Science Show we have been planning a show on how to become an astronaut for some time. We've even found someone who went through the European Space Agency's training program as a guest. But that is for another time.

So why that preamble? Well, its been a childhood dream of many on the team to become one of these fabled spacemen. But that's all it was. A pipedream.

But not for our Ben Henderson.

Ben realises he has left the iron on.

By sheer fluke or otherwise a certain deodorant company are giving people the chance to take to the heavens. Ben has entered himself and has a realistic chance of making it!

To get past the first national round, he needs to be in the top 200 for votes received (of which he is tantalisingly close). So all you need to do is visit this website and click VOTE.

http://sendbentospace.tk

(The site doesn't work on campus, our elite hacking unit are working on this.)

If that doesn't convince you enough, our love for ridiculous film trailers and making videos kicked into overdrive and we have made this.

Spread the word.

Are you looking for love at your time at university? Unsure why you are still single with Nottingham's supposed 4 girls to every guy ratio? Don't know where to start? Well fear not as the Science Show are taking its cues from nature into mating habits.

Join George, Carl and special guest Dr. Sophie Mowles as they delve into the weird, wonderful and downright bizarre methods implemented by natures finest. If not for the factual wonders, it will be worth it just to see two guys with no clue about romance try to pretend they know what they're doing.

Also on the show, the student science team make light, using just sugar. Impressed? Thought so.

Join us 6-7 today, only on URN.

Carl, George and Sophie in the Studio!