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
- 1188
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Summer Special Q&A Show
This week, do diet foods make children fat? Could a space screw save us from catastrophe collisions? Have we seen the last of the Yangtze river dolphin? And should we look to the Simpsons for our sci…
00:57:28 |
Sat 11 Aug 2007
Venoms and Toxins - Natures Arsenal
This week, mind reading children, scientists find a new gene in the lung cancer cocktail, and satnav or map-nav - what's greener? Plus we become biological weapons inspectors and explore nature's ars…
01:00:43 |
Sat 04 Aug 2007
Naked Science Q&A Show
This week, clean coal technology - how to get the energy from coal without digging it up, why GM goats are helping to combat nerve gas attacks, and how scientists have found the 'itch' gene. We also …
00:58:47 |
Sat 28 Jul 2007
Extreme Survival Show
This week, we find out about survival in extreme environments. We find out how free divers descend hundreds of feet underwater without air, how life thrives beneath the ice in Antarctica, how fighter…
01:01:15 |
Sat 21 Jul 2007
Fuels of the Future
This week, from iPod to iRod as a man's taste for music turns him into a human lightning conductor, why penguins are picky eaters, and better biopsies - why doctors are attracted to a new magnetic ca…
00:59:21 |
Sat 14 Jul 2007
The Brain, Epilepsy and Out of Body Experiences
This week news that men talk as much as women, cosmetics from jellyfish, songbirds "greatest-tits", a breathtaking asthma breakthrough and a gene-screen for bowel cancer. We also uncover the cause of…
00:59:03 |
Sat 07 Jul 2007
Question and Answer Show
This week, playing bingo on an inflatable space station, a new way to attack the cause of Alzheimer's and mending a broken heart with stem cells. Also, using bananas to speed up fruit ripening, leec…
00:59:19 |
Sat 30 Jun 2007
ARMAGEDDON - Super Volcanoes, Meteorites and Earthquakes
This week a rabies-based Trojan Horse that smuggles drugs across the blood-brain barrier, why first-borns are brighter, progress with Parkinson's and a lunar telescope more powerful than Hubble. Plus…
00:57:12 |
Sat 23 Jun 2007
Forensic Science Show
Under the microscope this week, the science of forensics. We find out how scientists have exploded the myth about old aged whales thanks to a piece of shrapnel, about a new rice-based vaccine for cho…
00:57:41 |
Sat 16 Jun 2007
Question and Answer Show
This week, why some people have green blood, how radiation-hungry fungi will feed astronauts of the future, and how a cider a day keeps the doctor at bay. We discuss corrupt chemists, what happens wh…
00:55:32 |
Sun 10 Jun 2007
Animal Behaviour - Feathered Einsteins, Mischievious Meerkats and Monkey Vision
This week, will a hot mint still taste cold? Also how skimmed milk could come straight from the cow in future, and why we walk upright without dragging our knuckles. Nicky Clayton discusses clever b…
00:57:09 |
Sat 02 Jun 2007
Planets and Cosmology
This week, Drs Chris and Helen find out how your fingers can reveal whether you're mathematically minded, and bridge-building ants that quite literally let themselves be walked over. Also, Astronome…
00:56:47 |
Sat 26 May 2007
Volcanic pollution, the Ozone Hole and the Greenhouse Effect - The Atmosphere Show
This week, scientists recreate hair follicles, we uncover a means of making hydrogen in a hurry, hear about a stealthy way to destroy cancer and find out why a dose of herpes could be good for you. A…
01:00:02 |
Sat 19 May 2007
Germs, Fungi and Viruses - The Microscopic World
This week, Dr Chris and Dr Helen explore the microscopic world, finding out why diarrhoea and projectile vomiting make cruise ships the perfect culture vessel for noroviruses, and asking why fungi ar…
00:55:36 |
Sat 12 May 2007
Naked Scientists Question and Answer Show
This week Drs Chris, Dave and Phil find out how a venomous spider has got scientists swollen with excitement because it's bite has Viagra-like properties, how maggots are fighting off MRSA from ulcer…
00:55:35 |
Sat 05 May 2007
Migrating Genes, Surnames and Y Chromosomes
This week we're exploring how populations come by their genes including the surprise finding of African DNA in a remote village in Yorkshire. Oxford University's Bruce Winney explains how studying ru…
00:53:46 |
Sat 28 Apr 2007
Oceans and Marine Conservation
This week on the Naked Scientists an invitation to come and dive beneath the surface of the sea, to find out what is happening in the world's oceans. Your guides will be Marine Biologist Dr Annelise …
00:53:17 |
Sat 21 Apr 2007
New Ideas in Cancer
This week we look at new developments in the science of cancer with Fiona Watt and Andy Futreal, we will see how new gene technologies could be key to understanding cancer, and knowing the role of st…
00:52:10 |
Sat 14 Apr 2007
Heart Disease and Repairing the Damaged Heart
This week we explore the science of Heart Disease. Dr Niall Campbell joins us to explain what heart attacks are and how theyre treated, Dr Anthony Mathur discusses how stem cells might hold the key t…
00:55:16 |
Sat 31 Mar 2007
The Science of Flight
This week we explore the science of flight. Dr Graham Taylor from Oxford University talks about the aerodynamics of insect flight and how video camera back-packs allow him to see how eagles fly, and …
00:55:19 |
Sun 25 Mar 2007
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