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
Air pollution, dwarf elephants and water footprints.
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears about new air-quality monitoring that could help mitigate the effects of bad-air days; the effect of climate change on Mediterranean dw…
00:20:32 |
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Ten Years of Diamond
This month, we celebrate ten years of Diamond and discover what it takes to get from green field site to functioning synchrotron. We take a look at the wide range of science that's taken place from t…
00:32:22 |
Sun 25 Mar 2012
What happens when we screw with our sleep patterns?
Cambridge Neuroscientists Dr Michael Hastings and Dr Akhilesh Reddy spoke at the annual Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar about their work on sleep.They discuss the importance of sleep for learning and …
00:12:08 |
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Invasive signal crayfish, shags, night-shining clouds
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham finds out why the American signal crayfish is driving out one of the UK's native species; in our latest audio diary, Hannah Grist from the Un…
00:20:34 |
Wed 14 Mar 2012
A global classroom brings the oceans alive
Marine biologist Dr Joshua Drew from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is using cutting edge communication technologies to bring the oceans alive in two very different parts of the plane…
00:14:27 |
Wed 07 Mar 2012
River Thames pollution, Arctic freshwater bulge
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Sue Nelson goes to the River Thames in central London to find out why nitrate pollution has trebled since the 1930s. Later on, she talks to a researcher about a…
00:20:47 |
Mon 05 Mar 2012
Mental Maps in the Brain
What's your sense of direction like? And how good are you at reading a map? It turns out, these skills are down to two particular regions of the brain that keep track of where you are in relation to …
00:10:10 |
Tue 28 Feb 2012
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Opening up Your Mind
This Month, Dr Hannah Critchlow opens up the mind to reveal the neurons controlling the inner workings of our brain and how we perceive the world around us... Like this podcast? Please help us by sup…
00:17:13 |
Tue 21 Feb 2012
Testing satellites on Earth, hedgerow wildlife
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson visits RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to find out how scientists check if the scientific equipment they put on satell…
00:21:04 |
Fri 17 Feb 2012
Revitalising urban rivers, hot conservation topics
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham goes to the River Wandle in south-west London to find out how scientific research is helping to revitalise this heavily-used river; later he…
00:20:24 |
Tue 31 Jan 2012
Day to Day Diamond
This month, we step inside to explore what, and who, it takes to run the synchrotron. We meet the people that keep the electrons accelerating to produce light beams 100 billion times brighter than th…
00:29:24 |
Mon 23 Jan 2012
The Hoff Crab, North Sea fisheries, flood prediction
It's not often that science news goes viral, but when researchers dubbed a new species the 'Hoff Crab' more people than usual seemed to take notice! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting th…
00:21:33 |
Tue 17 Jan 2012
Discovering the world's deepest deep sea vents
Deep sea researchers Doug Connelly and Jon Copley led the team that discovered the deepest and possibly hottest undersea volcanoes on the planet. In a special edition of the Naked Scientists they tal…
00:09:33 |
Fri 13 Jan 2012
Brain Control of Appetite and Body Weight
This month, Dr Lora Heisler discusses the brain mechanisms controlling our appetite and subsequent body weight. She explores the many drivers behind hunger and appetite control and how these differ f…
00:22:47 |
Tue 10 Jan 2012
Parkour and orang-utans, risks from solar storms
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to Birmingham to find out how the James Bond film Casino Royale and orang-utan conservation are linked; later she meets a scientist from the Br…
00:19:14 |
Mon 09 Jan 2012
The Thames Barrier, the colour of prehistoric birds
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to the Thames Barrier to find out how engineers use science to decide whether or not to raise or lower it, helping to stop storm surges from fl…
00:21:12 |
Mon 12 Dec 2011
Chemistry at the Synchrotron
This month, we celebrate the international year of chemistry by exploring the wide range of chemical discoveries and research taking place at Diamond. We investigate the role of chemistry in pittin…
00:34:23 |
Mon 05 Dec 2011
How Nicotine Switches the Brain onto Cocaine
How does nicotine open a gateway to cocaine addiction? A new study indicates that nicotine primes the brain for cocaine - by altering the structure of a gene linked to learning, memory and addiction.…
00:10:44 |
Mon 05 Dec 2011
The Ozone Hole, Starlings in Fair Isle, Forest Fires
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham talks to one of the scientists behind the discovery of the ozone hole to find why it's still there; how research on starlings on an island f…
00:20:08 |
Tue 22 Nov 2011
The Biology of Behaviour
Professor Tony Holland provides a window into the biology of behaviour and how genetic syndromes are helping open this window to provide greater levels of insight into violent behaviour, appetite co…
00:24:04 |
Tue 22 Nov 2011
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