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
Vaccines, squirrels with leprosy, and exoplanet atmospheres
In the news pod, the nanotechnology enabling the production of a new vaccine to immunise against future coronaviruses. Then, how we can use psychedelic treatments without giving patients an unwanted …
00:33:08 |
Fri 10 May 2024
AI and immunotherapy: The cutting edge of cancer research
Today, we turn our attention to cancer. With several high profile cases in recent weeks, we look at the broader picture across the UK as of late. Then, the mechanisms by which cancer takes hold of it…
00:32:42 |
Tue 07 May 2024
AstraZeneca Covid vaccine clots, and self eating plastic
This episode of The Naked Scientists: AstraZeneca acknowledges its Covid vaccine is linked to a rare blood clotting side effect; also, whether scientists are getting closer to cracking nuclear fusion…
00:28:23 |
Fri 03 May 2024
How to survive in space
This episode of The Naked Scientists: as mankind seeks to colonise the Moon, Mars and beyond, we'll examine the impact of cosmic voyages on body and mind, and what we can do to keep spacefarers healt…
00:32:55 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Regrowing brains, and China's sinking cities
This episode of The Naked Scientists: Scientists give mice a rat's sense of smell; we find out why some of China's biggest cities are sinking; and, 14 years after disaster struck in the Gulf of Mexic…
00:32:45 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
ADHD explained
This week on The Naked Scientists, we're going to take a closer look at attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - which is usually referred to by its acronym: ADHD. Globally, it's estimated that aro…
00:35:38 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Britain's smoking ban, and bumper sea beasts
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: MPs vote in favour of stricter smoking and vaping controls; but do we actually need this and will it work? Also, the remains of what's thought to be the large…
00:29:30 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Hunting Higgs bosons: A tribute to Peter Higgs by Lyn Evans
This week, a special tribute to the revered British scientist, Peter Higgs, who died on the 8th of April, aged 94. His friend, Lyn Evans, tells us about the 40-year search for the eponymous Higgs bos…
00:27:17 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Artificial platelets, and angry primates
This week on The Naked Scientists: Scientists invent artificial platelets to help clot blood; why it might be time to reappraise the peace-loving nature of bonobos; and why the Moon may have turned i…
00:29:56 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Global warming vs global farming
This week, fresh off the back of the World Meteorological Organizations scathing report of the state of global climate 2023, we're taking a look at how the increasing trend of torrid weather extremes…
00:31:17 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Stem cells for spinal injury, and breast cancer breakthrough
In the Naked Scientists News this week, stem cell treatment using cells from the bellies of those with spinal cord injuries restores movement and sensation in phase 1 clinical trials. Also, Cambridge…
00:33:32 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
Nitazenes move the needle for drug death distress
Today we're investigating dangerous new drugs which have found their way onto the streets of the UK. Nitazenes are lab made opioids with similar effects for the user as heroin. Their relative strengt…
00:29:16 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
Climate change slowing Earth's rotation, and hotels in space
This week on The Naked Scientists: Check your watches: how climate change is making the Earth turn more slowly; we'll also hear from the Cambridge scientists investigating whether vaccines can combat…
00:29:33 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Alzheimer's: the fight back
Thanks to Sannia Farrukh and the ICGEB for their support in making this show!It's thought that by the end of the decade, 78 million people around the world will have Alzheimer's disease. It's debilit…
00:33:49 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Whooping cough cases surge, and looking for life on Europa
This week on The Naked Scientists: The spike in whooping cough cases occurring across Europe; what's behind it? Also, how scientists are set to look for life on an icy moon of Jupiter. And, the new a…
00:29:08 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Tackling the uptick in ticks
This week on The Naked Scientists, we're getting ticked off about the uptick in ticks, as we look at what they are, the problems they cause, and what we can do to tick them off our worry list. Like t…
00:29:42 |
Tue 19 Mar 2024
COVID retrospective, space security, and car brake particles
In the news pod, 4 years on from the outset of the COVID pandemic, what questions still need answering in the bid to avoid a similar emergency? Plus, why we need to start taking space security more s…
00:31:38 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Should we stop calling it Long COVID?
4 years since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic officially, we take a look at the latest research guiding scientists towards the root causes of the debilitating symptoms some people suffer for man…
00:32:47 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Greedy labradors, a dead galaxy, and telepathic fish
In the news pod, the greedy gene fuelling hungry labradors, AI assists prostate cancer prognosis, the galaxy which died 13 billion years ago, how birds are struggling to adapt to changing seasons, an…
00:34:21 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Cyber crimes in cyber times
This week on The Naked Scientists, cyber crimes in cyber times. Off the back of cyber attacks on the British Library and our own Cambridge University, we'll be taking a look at the world of cyber att…
00:31:14 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
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