The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists flagship science show, includes the latest science news, interviews with top scientists, hands-on science experiments and answers to your science questions.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 1187
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
AI passes Turing Test, and new drug for Covid
In the news, the old liver drug that turns out to be able to prevent Covid-19 infection, the artificial intelligence systems that pass the Turing test and can write their own computer programmes, and…
00:27:23 |
Fri 09 Dec 2022
8 billion: an overpopulation crisis?
Last month, we were told, the 8 billionth person was added to Earth's human population. But despite many acknowledging that some of the biggest threats facing us and the planet, like climate change -…
00:30:31 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
New Alzheimer's treatment, and mussel memory
A new Alzheimer's drug shows some promise in trials, but are the risks from side effects worth it? A new contraceptive inspired by Roman history and shellfish... And the surprising discovery about an…
00:28:38 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
Personality testing: no wrong answers?
If you've recently applied for a job, you may have been asked to fill out a personality test. From banks and consultancy firms to fast-food outlets, they're increasingly being used as a way to improv…
00:28:34 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Disease breath tests, and Perseverance papers
In the news this week, we hear about the novel approach to diagnosing diseases by looking at the chemical compounds in patients' breath, a new way of attacking viruses without damaging our cells, the…
00:32:06 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Q&A: How did we outpace the big bang?
This week, it is time to put your questions to a panel of excellent experts in one of our Q&A shows! We are going to be investigating how we track disease outbreaks, why our ears go pop, and why nean…
00:59:30 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Reproducibility: science's consistency issue
This week, we're talking about the so-called scientific reproducibility crisis: an alarming sounding study was released earlier this year which concluded that less than one third of breast cancer res…
00:30:21 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Growing blood in the lab, and talking to ET
In this episode, How researchers are growing new blood in the lab, the scientists planning for potential alien communications, and why fertiliser may be fooling bees' ability to spot flowers... Like …
00:28:32 |
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Tuberculosis: tackling the troubling uptick
Before Covid, the bacterial infection "tuberculosis" was the number 1 infectious disease killer on the planet. Every day it claims the lives of thousands, with the impact particularly marked in lower…
00:27:02 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
Gene therapy for epilepsy, and beastly botany
In the news this week, the novel gene therapy for epilepsy which reduces side effects, how birdsong can provide listeners with a mental health boost, we take a terrifying tour of Cambridge University…
00:28:53 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
Clocks, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
We mark the clocks going back with a look at our circadian rhythms: that's the mechanism by which our bodies mark time and keep our biological processes ticking over. Some drugs work better at certai…
00:30:44 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Charged up bees and deep, dark seas
In the news this week, a new health study of unprecedented scale launches in the UK to improve disease detection, CAR-T therapy is administered without tailoring it specifically to the patient, the s…
00:28:43 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
SEEMONSTER and the circular economy
A trip to the British seaside to see a See Monster - that's the title for the decommissioned gas platform turned art installation attempting to fuel new discussions around reuse and renewable energy …
00:29:08 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Neanderthals, lost nets, and net zero
Coming up this week... how bacteria could be supercharging cancer cells, the ghost fishing nets laying waste to our oceans, and could capturing carbon underground hold the key to our net zero ambitio…
00:34:06 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
The Latest on Long Covid
This week, the latest research findings on Long Covid. What did a study on over a million people reveal about who's at risk of the condition and for how long? What research is now being done to disco…
00:31:25 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
These boots are made for walking
Coming up this week in the news, the advanced warning signs ten years ahead that Alzheimer's might be on the way, the exoskeleton boot that learns how you walk and helps you go faster, and the sleepi…
00:26:57 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
Can fracking calm the energy crisis?
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is an industrial process undertaken to access pockets of gas locked inside rock formations underground. It's seen by its proponents as a vital part of the solution …
00:25:36 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Nobel Prize Roundup
In the news, we dissect the achievements of the Nobel prize winners for science and medicine, ask whether paracetamol causes behavioural problems in children, and hear about the disturbance caused by…
00:42:35 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
The Trieste Next science festival
This week the Naked Scientists have been in the City of Science - Trieste - to take part in their annual science festival and speak to some of the researchers pushing back the frontiers of knowledge …
00:59:23 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Sweeteners, seagrass, and sterilised plastic
In the programme this week, we look at the plastic that sterilises itself, why sweeteners are worse for you than sugar, and how will seagrass react to climate change? Like this podcast? Please help u…
00:31:05 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
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