Quick Fire Science, from the Naked Scientists
Rapid fire science in sixty seconds, or so... We break down the latest science stories into digestible quick-fire podcasts that focus on the facts.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 56
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2019
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics are finishing in Sochi, Russia this week. But it's not just the athletes who've spent the last four years training for the event. Engineers and designers have also been working to…
00:02:46 |
Thu 20 Feb 2014
Marius the Giraffe
Last week a young, physically healthy giraffe called Marius in a zoo in Copenhagen was put down, amidst an uproar from animal lovers. The zoo argued that it had to be done to prevent inbreeding, and …
00:02:16 |
Thu 13 Feb 2014
Medically Induced Comas
This week doctors are trying to bring Formula One Racing Star Michael Schumacher out of a coma which was medically induced following a skiing accident.To find out more about why medically induced com…
00:01:58 |
Thu 06 Feb 2014
Purple Tomatoes
Purple tomatoes might soon be making their way onto our dinner plates as the genetically modified fruit is currently being mass produced in Canada. The tomatoes which contain anthocyanin compounds no…
00:02:05 |
Thu 30 Jan 2014
Keeling Curve Crowdfunding
Crowd funding programmes like Kick-starter have been used to raise money for music projects and Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to raise funding for long running scientific projects. T…
00:02:43 |
Thu 16 Jan 2014
Polar Vortices
This week, Hell literally froze over, as the small Michigan town of Hell experienced temperatures of minus 17 degrees Celsius. And Hell wasn't alone temperatures across the United States have plummet…
00:02:14 |
Thu 09 Jan 2014
Exploring Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012, and it has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater. This week the team running the rover reported on what t…
00:02:58 |
Wed 11 Dec 2013
Renewable energy generation
The UK government has this week announced changes to its subsidies for renewable energy generation. But how much energy does the UK generate using renewables? Here's your quickfire science on renewa…
00:01:55 |
Thu 05 Dec 2013
AIDS Awareness Week
This week is AIDS Awareness Week. It is thought that, worldwide, 35 million people carry the HIV virus, and although current drugs work well to prevent AIDS, there is no cure in sight. Here's your Qu…
00:02:50 |
Thu 28 Nov 2013
World Toilet Day
The 19th November was World Toilet Day. Established in 2001, the event seeks to draw attention to global sanitation and health problems associated with a lack of toilets, and break the taboo associat…
00:02:38 |
Thu 21 Nov 2013
What is opium
This week, reports suggest that the 2013 opium harvest in Central and South Asia was the largest on record. But what is opium? Here's your quick fire science with Kate Lamble and Simon Bishop. Like t…
00:02:23 |
Thu 14 Nov 2013
Giant animals
This week archaeologists in Queensland, Australia, found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre-long. Archaeologists have already found the remains of many giant ancestors of mode…
00:02:21 |
Thu 07 Nov 2013
Gunpowder and Fireworks
Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason, why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot! So here's your quick fire science on gunpowder and fireworks just …
00:02:33 |
Thu 31 Oct 2013
Science of Baking
This week saw the final of the Great British Bake Off, a television programme in which 13 people spend a weekend in a tent, baking cakes and bread. Over 6 million viewers tuned in each week to catch …
00:02:45 |
Tue 22 Oct 2013
Invasive Species
It's official: the UK has a slug problem. This week, researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich asked the public for help to help them track down the Spanish slug, a rapidly reproducing invasi…
00:02:45 |
Wed 16 Oct 2013
The Nobel Prizes
This week, the Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry were awarded. Here's your quickfire science on the life of the prize's founder, Alfred Nobel, and past recipients of the award with Mat…
00:02:15 |
Wed 09 Oct 2013
Mind Boggling Bog Bodies
A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called 'bog body' with intact skin anywhere in the world. Here's your quickfire science on how wetlands can preserve an…
00:02:07 |
Wed 25 Sep 2013
MS Costa Concordia
This week, salvage experts have been trying to raise the MS Costa Concordia, a cruise liner which partially sank near the island of Giglio off the coast of Italy in January 2012. Here's the quick-fir…
00:01:58 |
Wed 18 Sep 2013
Giant panda breeding
Zoo keepers in Edinburgh have said this week that they're uncertain whether a giant panda in the city's zoo might give birth to a cub. But why is it so notoriously difficult to get pandas to breed in…
00:02:22 |
Tue 10 Sep 2013
Car Cooking Skyscraper
You may have heard this week about a new building at 20 Fenchurch St, in the City of London. The 37-storey skyscraper, which has already been dubbed the 'Walkie-talkie' due to its unusual shape, has …
00:02:35 |
Tue 03 Sep 2013
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