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In this edition: Sampling the delights of the 2018 Imperial Festival and discovering the happiness-boosting powers of the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Imperial College Podcast is now also available on the brand new visual podcast app, Entale.

If you have an iPhone, download the app and search for ‘Imperial College Podcast’. You’ll see how our episodes really come alive on the exciting new platform. .

Listen to individual chapters:

– We explore a potential new drug that , and discover what have in common.

– Let our reporters take you on a journey through this year’s , including self-flying drones, schools investigating air pollution and a fairground of science.

– Just getting to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest is linked to for a country, whether they win or get nil points. We talk to the researchers behind the study to find out why this might be, and what the implications are for public health.

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