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
OCD and balance in the brain
Obsessive compulsive disorder - OCD - is a mental health condition where intrusive, unwanted thoughts can become all consuming. Some people report anxieties over something terrible happening to them …
00:31:07 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Jab to alleviate asthma attacks, and amber in Antarctica
In the news, a potentially game-changing new injection to ease the suffering caused by asthma attacks shows success. Also, who should fix the gas leak on the International Space Station? Then, fossil…
00:32:19 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
Can nuclear innovation help meet our energy needs?
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, how much of a part do innovations in nuclear energy production, like SMRs and microreactors, have to play in our nuclear future? Like this podcast? Please hel…
00:30:22 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Amazing animals: bats on treadmills, and showering elephants
In this animal-themed edition of the news: What prompted scientists to put vampire bats on a treadmill? Also ahead: why medicinal leeches are returning to the UK's waterways. Plus, the spiders that k…
00:32:31 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Are we on track to end new infections of HIV?
On today's programme, we are going to examine attempts to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by the end of the decade.The AIDS pandemic is unarguably the worst health threat to confront the popul…
00:35:04 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
The stakes at COP29, and the rogue Skynet satellite
This episode of The Naked Scientists: what's at stake at this year's UN climate summit in Azerbaijan? Also, the 80 million-year-old fossil revealing how birds came by their big brains; and why the UK…
00:31:25 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
Can weight loss jabs tackle the obesity pandemic?
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, could weight loss jabs help shrink the size of the global obesity crisis... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
00:31:54 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Pompeii DNA, and a black hole feeding faster than it should
New NICE guidance urges HRT as a first-line treatment for menopause symptoms, the enormous black hole that doesn't obey our existing laws of physics, and what DNA analysis is revealing about the peop…
00:31:22 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
How do we reduce harms to children from smartphones?
Initially, the upside to children having access to a supercomputer in their pockets seemed obvious: immediate access to the reams of educational information on the internet, seamless communications w…
00:31:07 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Monkeypox in the UK, and the lost Mayan city
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: The UK detects its first case of the new Mpox variant, but some are saying what took us so long; also the discovery of a lost city beneath the jungle canopy i…
00:36:32 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Could technology swing the race for the White House?
The US election between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump is going down to the wire. Indeed, this has been described by many as the closest presidential election ev…
00:31:52 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Chris Hoy's cancer diagnosis, and AI finds us common ground
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: Sir Chris Hoy goes public with his terminal prostate cancer diagnosis; the World Health Organization has declared Egypt malaria-free; also, it's time to chang…
00:33:28 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Searching for signs of life on Europa
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, as NASA's Europa Clipper mission successfully blasts off towards Jupiter's moon, we look at how it leads the search for life in our solar system... Like this …
00:31:37 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Modifying insulin, and the melting Sphinx
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: The new form of insulin that switches itself off before blood sugar falls too low; also, scientists suss out the origins of most of the meteors that fall to E…
00:28:58 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Is a vegan diet a healthy one?
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, what science has to say about whether a vegan diet is a healthy diet... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
00:33:18 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Electrical stitches show potential, and Nobel prizes
In the news pod, how electrically conductive stitches can speed up wound healing. Scientists find the DNA of human victims embedded in the teeth of two African lions shot in the 1800's. And the Nobel…
00:32:07 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Rules of engagement: Nullifying neurotrauma
Today, we're going in depth on traumatic brain injuries. James Tytko speaks with Dawn Astle, daughter of former England striker Jeff Astle, about the finding that his death was linked to head trauma …
00:32:35 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
Diabetes cured with stem cells, and US bans Chinese tech
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: Diabetes fixed with stem cells: scientists reprogramme a patient's fat cells to produce insulin; also why some security specialists are worried Chinese-made e…
00:30:15 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Lockdown legacies: how Covid continues to shape the world
Four and a half years ago many countries told their inhabitants they had to stay at home for weeks at a time to control the coronavirus pandemic. Many countries had never resorted to any such measure…
00:36:49 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Fruity vapes paralyse lungs, and world's oldest cheese
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: Signs that fruity vapes paralyse the immune system in your lungs; the world's oldest cheese: but why was the nearly 4000 year old dairy product smeared all ov…
00:31:17 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
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