Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
Special scientific reports and investigations by the Naked Scientists team
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 981
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
The proteins responsible for feeling cold revealed...
A problem that's been puzzling scientists for decades is the way our bodies recognise cold stimuli, and researchers at the University of Michigan have finally got to the bottom of it. They've identif…
00:04:28 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
Apes reveal language origins, and being dyslexic in science
This month we hear what orangutans can tell us about the origins of human speech, we ask if science making life even harder for dyslexics, where do the scientists we train end up and do they stay in …
00:36:04 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Making waves about coastline conservation, and plastic waste
This month the connections that human inhabitants have to the coast, why we're still in the middle of a worsening extinction crisis despite international laws and treaties designed to protect nature,…
00:35:53 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Bees can't taste pesticides, and how albatrosses get aloft
In the eLife Podcast this month, signs that bees are oblivious to pesticides in nectar, sea anemone stinging strategies, a new means of cell-cell communication to share growth factors and other signa…
00:34:46 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Recycled plastics pollute food, and the value of water
Better awareness of the precious resource that is water, getting a grip on coastal ecosystems and the impact of pollution, why recycled plastics are a threat for food packaging and kitchen utensils, …
00:37:28 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Wildlife Trade Extinctions and 21st Century Psychology
This time we hear how many species are being driven to extinction by human trade, why clinical psychology needs an update for the 21st Century, how non-specialists can help to plug the gap in mental …
00:37:29 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Surviving a fusion bomb
Ken Mcginley was there during some of the first tests of hydrogen bombs in the 1950s. We were lucky enough to hear his story... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
00:07:21 |
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Does our language affect our decision making?
There are many factors that might affect the way we make decisions: our age, our past experiences, even our mood that day. But now, a new study has suggested that the language we speak also plays a p…
00:05:25 |
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Microbial life deep underground
Comparatively, we know an awful lot about life on the surface of planet earth. We know a lot less about the extent of life in our oceans, and we know even less about the life festering deep beneath u…
00:05:51 |
Mon 06 Feb 2023
How the pandemic affected child development
Babies born during the Covid-19 lockdowns are behind on their language development. That's the finding of a recent study comparing infants born during the pandemic with similar children born in previ…
00:04:06 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
New Ultrasound Technique for Breast Imaging
A new non invasive technique to pick up breast cancer has been unveiled by UK scientists. Breast cancer is the most diagnosed form cancer in the UK. Dense breast tissue, particularly common in young…
00:03:19 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Search and rescue rats
Apopo is a charity that trains African giant pouched rats for humanitarian purposes, with a view to combating some of the challenges faced by countries in the developing world. Originally, they train…
00:04:43 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
TV is influencing careers
Did you end up in your dream job? Or did you end up pursuing a career quite intensely for some reason that eludes you? Perhaps the media representation of your profession had a part to play. Shrikant…
00:04:24 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
FIFA Fall Out with EA
There's news of a huge rift in the world of video games... EA Sports, who made the first ever FIFA football game in 1993, have announced that they will no longer be licensing the FIFA name. Chris Ber…
00:02:43 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Did the lockdown make us more creative?
Now, I want you to cast your mind back to that first lockdown (if you can bear it) and to think about the ways you chose to fill all that new found free time. Perhaps, like the participants of a surv…
00:04:26 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Dog and Dingo DNA sequences
Dingoes are native Australian dogs, although how and when they got to Australia isn't known. They were certainly already there by the time the first western explorers visited the continent, but fossi…
00:06:29 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Coffee without the coffee beans
Coffee prices are on the rise and the plant is said to decline by 60% before 2050, meaning new coffee alternatives are being considered in order to give us that caffeine hit. Harry Lewis speaks to Ch…
00:04:10 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Recreating smells from the past
If I asked you to give up one of your five senses, which one would you choose? Chances are, instead of giving up your ability to see or hear, your sense of smell would be in pole position for the cho…
00:05:01 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
A new method for recycling plastics
The world has a huge problem with plastics. While they are a materials scientist's dream in terms of their properties, they are an environmentalist's worst nightmare, because they don't break down na…
00:04:35 |
Mon 04 Apr 2022
Data storage in DNA
Researchers have been studying DNA as a method to store binary data. As data generation continues to increase in the information age, we need new methods to store it. DNA is extremely robust and can …
00:04:47 |
Thu 24 Mar 2022
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