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
Scroll Over Beethoven: Machines Making Music
It's Beethoven's 250th birthday! What today's tech tells us about his music? And have computers have become powerful enough to take the same creative steps as he once did? Plus, in the news: the prac…
00:57:47 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
HIV Under the Microscope
This week, for World AIDS Day, we put HIV under the microscope, and talk to someone who's actually been cured, and the doctor who cured him. Plus, in the news, the UK becomes the first western countr…
00:56:04 |
Tue 08 Dec 2020
Bonus episode: Showcasing Naked Gaming
From time to time, we showcase here on the Naked Scientists feed some of the other programmes we make across our Naked Network. So, this week, we're bringing you the latest episode of the Naked Gamin…
00:45:03 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
Movement Science: Devotion to Motion
Through November we've been musing over the science of movement, from enormous planetary scales to tiny cellular ones. And so this week, to celebrate our devotion to motion, we bring you our Move n A…
01:00:03 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
Cells On The Move
From strange-looking sperm to cancers that spread, we're looking at the light, and dark, sides of cell movement. Plus, a second Covid vaccine approaches the finishing line, but who are the also-rans?…
00:58:37 |
Tue 24 Nov 2020
People On The Move
From ancient past to global present, us humans are a migratory bunch. But with climate change redrawing maps of the world, what does the future hold? Plus, the science behind Pfizer's coronavirus vac…
00:55:56 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Earth On The Move
This week, will mass COVID testing in Liverpool get us out of lockdown? Antibodies to defend the brain; and why we've evolved to laugh! Plus we look at the Earth on the move: from our journey through…
00:54:17 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
Animals on the Move
This month (November 2020), we're theming our shows around movement. From cells moving at one extreme, to planetary movements at the other! And this week we're kick-starting the series by talking ani…
00:55:04 |
Tue 03 Nov 2020
Controlling Covid-19: lockdown, or let rip?
This week, news of the people catching coronavirus on purpose; those waiting-out the pandemic in an old nuclear bunker, and the good news that lullabies send babies to sleep regardless of what langua…
00:59:59 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Talking Trees: Science in the Forest
This week, we're talking trees! From how they grow, to the oldest ones on Earth, to how they die, and what trees can do for our cities. Plus in the news, can you catch COVID twice? How microwaving an…
00:53:21 |
Tue 20 Oct 2020
Trump's Treatments & Nobel Prizes
This week Chris is joined by top palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger and BMJ executive editor Theo Bloom to dissect the science behind the headlines. As Donald Trump recovers from his coronavirus infecti…
00:54:23 |
Tue 13 Oct 2020
Menstrual Science: periods, pills, poverty
This week - we're pondering periods. With about 800 million people menstruating each day around the globe, we're re-visiting the biology, musing over menstruation and mental wellbeing, and asking why…
00:55:33 |
Tue 06 Oct 2020
Should You go Vegetarian?
With an eye on World Vegetarian Day we're looking at the feasibility of a reduced meat diet: What can cutting down calories from meat do for our health, and the health of the planet? Plus, in the new…
00:53:43 |
Tue 29 Sep 2020
Big Data, Big Problems?
Do algorithms run the world? Nowadays we measure the amount of data we generate in zettabytes - that's 1 followed by 21 zeroes. This data, in turn, powers algorithms that are getting more and more so…
00:59:04 |
Tue 22 Sep 2020
Covid to Climate: Dissecting Science News
This week - a show with a difference! Space journalist Richard Hollingham and space scientist Katie Mack join Chris to probe the science behind the headlines, talk to other guests along the way, and …
00:57:00 |
Tue 15 Sep 2020
Telescopes Through Time
This week, the story of how humankind has gazed into space, from the first basic telescopes to what gravitational waves are now revealing about the workings of black holes. Plus, in the news, evidenc…
00:55:15 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
Where Did COVID Come From?
Where did the coronavirus come from? The story we've been told is that it started off in bats, and then jumped into humans some time late last year at a seafood market in the city of Wuhan. It's a ne…
00:58:20 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
Gardens, Plants and Climate Change
This week, with our climate changing, will the traditional "English country garden" become a thing of the past? Will pests and diseases surge? And how will flowers and food crops, and the pollinators…
00:59:19 |
Tue 25 Aug 2020
Can You Understand Me?
This week, How do we understand each other, from infants to adults how do we go about relating to one another. Plus, in the news, A Russian COVID vaccine, the perks of prosecco, and stopping swarming…
00:53:05 |
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Sick of COVID: The Long Haulers
Meet the COVID-19 patients who are still suffering the after-effects of the disease, months after catching the virus. They weren't ill enough to be hospitalised, and thought they'd recover after a fo…
00:57:08 |
Tue 11 Aug 2020
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