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
- 1186
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Record-breaking neutrinos, and quantum train travel
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: A particle with a record-breaking energy is discovered: but where did it come from? Also, damaged hearts healed using stem cell "patches" of tissue: human cli…
00:36:31 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
From Russia with Love: The Science of Hybrid Warfare
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, we'll find out how Putin and his cadre in the Kremlin play a neverending game of technological cat and mouse... Like this podcast? Please help us by supportin…
00:31:36 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Mantis shrimp's punch, and low-methane rice
In this week's Naked Scientists Podcast: Uncovering the secret behind the mantis shrimp's giant punch. Also, developing a new strain of rice that produces a fraction of the methane, and shaking virus…
00:32:08 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
Can you grow a building?
This week on The Naked Scientists, we've teamed up with Cambridge University Press and specifically the team behind Research Directions, their suite of new, open access journals that are all about pu…
00:33:57 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Asteroid Bennu's brine, and DeepSeek shocks Silicon Valley
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: Samples back from space reveal tantalising insights into where the life-linked chemicals that kick-started biology on Earth could have come from. Also, the im…
00:35:25 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
Titans of Science: Charlie Swanton
It's our final Titans of Science offering of this series, with world-leading cancer expert Charlie Swanton. We'll hear how the latest developments in our understanding of cancer's mechanisms are shap…
00:31:35 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Malaria infection trial, and weeing chimpanzees
On the Naked Scientists News show: a new UK trial seeks to infect healthy people with malaria in a bid to get to grips with the dormant stage of the infection. Then, we hear how T cells could be the …
00:34:15 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Science of Scotch: How whisky is made
In this special episode of The Naked Scientists, join Chris Smith on a journey from farm to whisky tumbler, as he witnesses the intricate processes behind producing high quality Scotch. Richard Broad…
00:32:36 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
5 years of COVID, and the hunt for Planet X
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: It's 5 years since COVID began and the WHO hosted their first press conference. But how much have we learned and are we prepared for the next pandemic? Also, …
00:31:22 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Titans of Science: Antje Boetius
Titans of Science continues with the microbiologist who discovered how an extraordinary relationship between two methane-eating seafloor species has shaped the world we know today. To explain that an…
00:30:49 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Bird flu threat, and what the Romans really did for us
In the news podcast this week, the first human death from bird flu in the US has made virologists vigilant about its potential threat. Also, we learn about the potentially billions of tonnes of seque…
00:33:37 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Titans of Science: Trevor Robbins
Titans of Science continues, where we talk to some of the major movers and shakers leading the way in their respective fields. This time we're hearing from Cambridge neuroscientist, and expert on obs…
00:29:31 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
What science will thrive in 2025?
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, a look ahead to 2025. We ask experts in the field of health, AI, astronomy, marine science, and archaeology what we should look forward to over the next 12 mo…
00:28:31 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Titans of Science: Marc Abrahams
In this edition of Titans of Science, Chris Smith chats with co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research, and the master of ceremonies for the Ig Nobel prize, Marc Abrahams... Like this podcast? Plea…
00:29:10 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
The science that defined 2024
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, we ask leading experts in the fields of health, AI, space, marine biology, and archaeology about the moments that defined 2024... Like this podcast? Please he…
00:28:10 |
Fri 27 Dec 2024
The best of 2024!
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, we look back at another brilliant year of science and select some of our favourite stories to come out of it... Like this podcast? Please help us by supportin…
00:53:43 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
Titans of Science: David Baker
Our Titans of Science season continues with the man who used AI to create an unprecedented number of custom proteins: Nobel Prize winning biochemist David Baker... Like this podcast? Please help us b…
00:28:16 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
Food science, ancient human genes, and dark comets
In the news pod, Chris van Tulleken tells us what he's got planned for this years Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Then we hear about the innovation to harness energy from radioactive carbon-14 …
00:33:49 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Titans of Science: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Titans of Science returns with Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered radio pulsars as a postgraduate student at Cambridge. Her work not only revolutionised the field of astrophysics, but inspired one o…
00:30:16 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
AI takes weather forecasting by storm, and crabs use aspirin
In the News pod, Google DeepMind's weather forecasting AI model outperforms traditional tools. Also, new data from volcanoes on Venus dampen theories it was once a watery world, and is this double ac…
00:33:20 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
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