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- 983 - Titans of Science: Anthony Fauci
Time for the next installment in Titans of Science! This week's very special guest is the former chief medical advisor to the White House during the pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci. He tells Chris Smith his fascinating story, from a boyhood flair on the basketball court, his rise to prominence handling an HIV crisis, to what it was like working with Donald Trump... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 - 30min - 982 - Ban on cheap vapes, and farewell to Dolly's 'father'
On the news pod, we ask whether an outright ban is the best way to deal with the health and environmental cost of sweet shop style vapes. Also on the programme; a new device for detecting Covid on patients' breath, the search for life elsewhere in the universe intensifies, and we pay tribute to Ian Wilmut, the 'father' of Dolly the sheep Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 15 Sep 2023 - 30min - 981 - Titans of Science: Helen Sharman - part 2
Part 2 of the extraordinary story of the first Briton in space. What was life like on a space station? How do you get back down? and what do you do afterwards? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 - 29min - 980 - Concrete concerns, and pharaoh de toilette
In this edition, can civil engineers help rescue the UK's crumbling schools and hospitals? Also, new initiative that is hoping to improve the treatment of sepsis, and how the scent of ancient Egypt has been replicated in a Danish museum... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 08 Sep 2023 - 31min - 979 - Titans of science: Helen Sharman - part 1
Today's guest is Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space. Our conversation ranges from her early beginnings working in a chocolate factory - Mars, would you believe - to her run in with the then leader of the Soviet Union... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 05 Sep 2023 - 30min - 978 - London ULEZ emissions tax, and uterus transplants
This week, London's latest ULEZ expansion - will it make much difference to air quality? The concerning impacts of poaching, and not just to endangered species, and the curious case of a woman with a worm in her brain. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 - 30min - 977 - Return to the Moon: Why now?
This week, we're casting our eyes towards the brightest and largest object in our night sky: the Moon. As India becomes the 4th nation to achieve a successful soft landing on our only natural sateillite, we saw a fantastic opportunity to chart the history of how the Moon was formed and the many billions worth of missions invested in finding out more about it... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 29 Aug 2023 - 28min - 976 - Serial killers, and sails on supertankers
In the news this week, how can we understand the motivations of serial killers? Also, we ask a dermatologist to outline the early signs of melanoma, and find out about the initiative to reduce carbon emissions from the shipping industry using aeroplane wings. Plus, water voles are being reintroduced in the Lake District - we hear from the site manager in charge. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 - 30min - 975 - The perfect plate of food: seasonal and well seasoned
Eating. We all have to do it 3 times a day and there's a lot to consider every time we do: is what I'm eating good for me? Is it sustainable for the planet? Can I afford the time or the expense to prepare it? In this episode, we address all these concerns, but with a focus on why food brings us joy in the first place: taste and flavour! Join Chris as he embarks on a culinary challenge to achieve everything he wants from his dinner, without compromising on cooking something delicious. The adventure takes him to a top Cambridge restaurant, to hear how a local chef is making tasty dishes with... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 22 Aug 2023 - 29min - 974 - Elections in an AI age & smokers start with less grey matter
In the news this week, we start by asking whether we should start preparing to combat election interference in the wake of the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. A study is out this week linking lower levels of grey matter in the brain's frontel cortex with an increased likelihood of taking up smoking - we speak to one of the authors. Will Russia's first mission to the moon in 50 years be a success? Plus, an analysis of the impacts of climate change on butterrfly numbers in the UK, and our Question of the Week relates to the states of matter and their relationships with each other... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 - 26min - 973 - The past, present and future of nukes
This week, we'll explore the origins of nuclear weapons and how they have changed modern warfare. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 15 Aug 2023 - 34min - 972 - Prepping for pandemics, and pursuing Perseids
This week, we'll find out about preparations for the next pandemic and "disease X"; the link between a noticeably enlarged part of the human brain and obesity; and how honey sweetened the deal for an injured cricketer! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 11 Aug 2023 - 28min - 971 - Q&A: Knuth, curry and kettles
Another month, another brilliant panel, another romp through your mind bending questions. Physicists Tony Padilla and Toby Wiseman, archaeologist Emma Pomeroy and educator Andrew Morris help Chris Smith explain whether electricity in our bodies is the same as in our houses, how we can detect the collision of 2 black holes from here on Earth, and why Graham's number doesn't bear thinking about too deeply... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 - 57min - 970 - Hydrogen: fuel or folly?
This week, we're turning to the subject of hydrogen and its potential to play a role as a cleaner fuel in future. Could hydrogen be the answer to our energy conundrum? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 01 Aug 2023 - 29min - 969 - Global boiling, and crashed crafts on Mars
Sweltering temperatures wreak havoc across Europe and North America, so what needs to be done to bring them down? We hear from the Cambridge scientist who wants to create the largest ever DNA and health research programme for children and young people. And, did aliens crash-land on Mars? Strange pictures resembling a crash site have been circulating but is there a more mundane explanation? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 - 27min - 968 - How AI will actually change the world
It's been quite the ride in the realm of artifical intelligence over the past year or so. As impressive as advancements in machine learning have been, however, few experts are worried about bots taking our jobs and threatening our safety as a species. The truth is, tools like ChatGPT are not the way AI is going to prove most helpful in the short term. We scratch below the surface to explain how, with more carefully trained programmes, the real potential of chatbots can and is being unlocked... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 - 30min - 967 - Alzheimer's drug, and algae vegan vitamins
A new drug in the fight against Alzheimer's disease: how does it work? Plus, we'll also have the latest on measles cases in London, look at the calls to reset the lunar clock, and could algae help people who are seeking to increase vitamin B12 in their diet? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 - 27min - 966 - Antidepressants: the ongoing debate
We'll be exploring depression, what causes it, and whether antidepressants or other treatments hold the key to solving it. Amongst our guests is psychologist Gordon Harold, speaking on how depression manifests in patients, and we'll also hear from psychiatrists on both sides of the antidepressant debate: Hamish McAllister Williams and Joanna Moncrieff. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 18 Jul 2023 - 29min - 965 - Feeling the heat and hearing the silence
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Fri, 14 Jul 2023 - 27min - 964 - Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs
It's a Question and Answer special this week. You supply the questions and we pose them to a panel of expert guests. Joining us this time, biologist and author Tom Ireland, marine scientist Liberty Denman, chemistry writer Philip Broadwith, and comedien Rosie Wilby. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 - 1h 00min - 963 - The fight to save the oceans
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Tue, 04 Jul 2023 - 30min - 962 - AI cancer scans, and heatproof drone plans
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Fri, 30 Jun 2023 - 31min - 961 - Light pollution: time to flick the switch
Many people don't recognise light pollution at night for what it is: pollution. Largely, we fail to see this harmful introduction into the environment because we have been conditioned to associated light with good and darkness with badness. It's time to change that. In this episode, we explore the various implications of artifical light at night and speak to the activists trying to put a stop to it. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 27 Jun 2023 - 31min - 960 - Polio vaccine and policy probe
In this week's show, we speak to a former navy commander about the Titan sub, do our decision-makers ignore evidence when making scientific policy? And the new telescope that is hoping to explore the dark side of the cosmos... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 - 28min - 959 - 40 years of HIV
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Tue, 20 Jun 2023 - 28min - 958 - Space solar power and fish running fevers
The plan to beam-in solar power from space, ways to incentivise sharing trustworthy material on social media, and do ill fish run a fever like we do? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 - 28min - 957 - The science of UFOs
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Tue, 13 Jun 2023 - 28min - 956 - UK Covid inquiry, AI, and cat contraception
As the UK's Covid inquiry kicks off, will it help to transform how we tackle future pandemics? How an AI is writing its own computer code, speeding up the Internet; and using gene therapy for cat contraception. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 - 29min - 955 - Fossil fever: scientists dig in
Researchers around the world are naming a new kind of dinosaur every week on average at the moment - what's behind this golden age of palaeontology? We talk to scientists, museum staff and amateur fossil hunters to find out about some of the most recent breakthroughs in the field, including new techniques looking for fossilised DNA still present in the samples stored away in curators' collections... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 06 Jun 2023 - 28min - 954 - Treaties, treatments and time travel
Also in the news, boys vocalise more in their first year, NASA' holds a public meeting on the study of 'unitdentified aeriel phenomena', and what damage might a time traveller cause? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 02 Jun 2023 - 30min - 953 - Allergies and how they happen
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Tue, 30 May 2023 - 26min - 952 - Toxic vapes and Russian treason
Are public health officials preparing to clampdown on the sale of dangerous vapes, the Russian scientists under arrest for treason, how researchers are homing in on why some of us are magnets for mosquitoes, and a very welcome floral addition to King's College, Cambridge... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Sat, 27 May 2023 - 28min - 951 - Q&A: Dodgy Devices and Maths Mayhem
Your questions are going under our microscope and we?ll be asking our guests to give their expert insight on a number of topics. Including, Why does asparagus make your wee smell? Could plastic eating worms help prevent pollution? And what?s going to happen to the International Space Station? Plus, there?ll be our customary quiz at half time. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 23 May 2023 - 1h 02min - 950 - How to remember everything
How do we remember things, why some people stuggle to remember their way around, and what does it take to be a memory world champion? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 16 May 2023 - 27min - 949 - Cancer vaccines and Commercial Space Stations
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Sun, 14 May 2023 - 30min - 948 - Building a better battery
With the global power supply shifting towards renewables, the battery is fast becoming one of the most vital forms of power storage. So how did we get here, how do batteries still need to improve, and could we be flying in battery-powered airliners before long? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 09 May 2023 - 28min - 947 - China's satellites and Wales' trilobites
What should we make of claims that China is building super weapons to hack and hijack US satellites? Also, the new app to help midwives detect health conditions in newborns, and we hear from the couple who have discovered one of the world's most important fossil deposits, almost on our own doorstep! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 05 May 2023 - 33min - 945 - Did rugby give me dementia at 40?
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Tue, 02 May 2023 - 29min - 944 - Ultra-processed cuisine and catch-up vaccines
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Fri, 28 Apr 2023 - 31min - 943 - Dealing with Diabesity
With 14 million new cases of diabetes each year being attributed to poor diet and half the worlds' population estimated to be overweight or obese by 2035, it's no wonder the UK's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, claims the situation around these conditions presents one of 'the biggest future health challenges we face.' So why is it happening and what can be done to reverse these worrying trends? We find out what dieting does to your metabolism, and whether the effectivness of weight loss drugs in the short term might make them a part of the solution... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 25 Apr 2023 - 26min - 942 - Starship explodes & soundscapes for sleep
In the news this week, Elon Musk's Starship experiences a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly', there's progress in developing a universal flu vaccine, and the sounds which might help your little one to fall asleep... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 - 33min - 941 - Taking a trip into a black hole
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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 - 29min - 940 - Solar power milestones and bird microbiomes
The world crosses the threshold of 1 terawatt of energy produced from solar means, the parting gift left behind by birds meeting an unfortunate demise, and looking for exoplanets that have magnetic fields Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 - 29min - 939 - Eco-anxiety: getting hot under the collar about climate change
In this bonus edition, climate psychologist Patrick Kennedy-Williams introduces us to the concept of eco-anxiety, the very real phenomenon leaving people across the UK feeling stressed about the future and the frightening implications of climate change. In partnership with E.ON NEXT - the energy provider on a mission to tackle eco-anxiety - we discuss when eco-anxiety first began to make its presence felt, who is most affected and why, and what we can all do to help both ourselves and the environment... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 - 29min - 938 - Bonus Episode: Mantra Meditation
This is a special, bonus episode brought to you in partnership with E.ON Next. If you've just been listening to our conversation with climate psychologist Patrick Kennedy-Williams, you'll know that they've created an audio toolkit for when eco-anxiety gets the better of you. We have part of it - a mindfulness meditation to boost well-being - for you here. For more of these resources search powerupforchange, or visit eonnext.com/eco-anxiety Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 - 12min - 937 - China hides Covid data, the problem with pain
In the news, tech experts call for AI slowdown, monkeys fail to grasp magic tricks which require opposable thumbs to pull off, and why the WHO wants China to release information on the origin of Covid. Plus, according to one study, as many as 44 percent of the population suffer from chronic pain. The difficulty is, we experience pain in many different ways, making it notoriously hard to find treatments. We'll look into the possible causes of long term pain, and what scientists are doing to find solutions... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 - 59min - 936 - Recharging in nature
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Tue, 04 Apr 2023 - 25min - 935 - T-Rex lips and dating tips
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Fri, 31 Mar 2023 - 29min - 934 - The Right to Repair: Get your fix
Whatever happened to make do and mend? Many of us, it seems, have lost the ability to fix the things we buy. So are manufacturers on a mission to make things impossible to fix, forcing us to buy new ones? Or should we be taking more personal responsibility to reduce waste?  Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 - 29min - 933 - Nerve interfaces and infrared fossil finding
In the news, scientists seeking to make measuring animal welfare a top priority on farms. Machines seeing the original chemicals in the bodies of fossilised animals. And why superglue might be the key to superior plastic recycling.  Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 24 Mar 2023 - 30min - 932 - Trick or treaty: the high seas agreement
The UN high seas treaty hopes to turn the tide on the biodiversity crisis in the ocean. Will it work, and will protecting 30% of the high seas be sufficient? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 - 33min - 931 - HIV case cured by umbilical cord stem cells
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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 - 30min - 930 - Q&A: How will astronauts shower on the moon?
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Fri, 10 Mar 2023 - 48min - 929 - Roman dildos and hackers targeting pets
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Fri, 03 Mar 2023 - 30min - 928 - What can plate tectonics teach us?
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Tue, 28 Feb 2023 - 29min - 927 - Sleepy sperm and shiny shrimp
Are we any closer to a contraceptive for men, will a 4 day work week pay for itself, and how cretaceous caterpillars helped scientists work out when plants first opened and closed their leaves... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 - 30min - 926 - Fusion power by 2040?
Today, we're asking whether UK science minister George Freeman's ambition of an operational fusion energy plant by 2040 is realistic. Scientists have their say as to whether or not this possible and, if not, when we can expect to see fusion on grid... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 - 28min - 925 - Gene therapy saves baby from fatal condition
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Fri, 17 Feb 2023 - 31min - 924 - A Bird Flu Pandemic Hovering on the Horizon
With over a billion birds dead and signs that the influenza virus is now spreading among mammalian species in the wild, are we at risk of another pandemic, just as we thought Covid was over? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 14 Feb 2023 - 31min - 923 - Turkey's earthquake and China's balloon
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Fri, 10 Feb 2023 - 28min - 922 - Cheaper food from fewer fertilisers
Scientists and governments are working together to turn farming, one of the foremost causes of global emissions, into a future-proof industry. We'll hear about the UK governments new sustainable farming scheme which rewards farmers for eco-friendly practices, scientists working on reducing reliance on harmful and costly fertilisers for grain crops, and the food formed of microbes which might soon feature on supermarket shelves... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 - 28min - 921 - Transplanting brain cells & the Big Birdwatch
Brain implants grown in a lab wire themselves into the nervous system. Artificial intelligence joins the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. We take part in the Big Garden Birdwatch 2023. And are sugar taxes actually effective ways to fight the obesity epidemic Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 - 26min - 920 - Satellites: forging metal and finding cholera
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Tue, 31 Jan 2023 - 32min - 919 - Plastic-eating bugs & paying you to power off
The plan to pay people to dial down their electricity use, the bacteria eating plastic in the ocean, and why antidepressants make it harder for users to enjoy themselves. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 - 30min - 918 - ChatGPT: The chatbot changing how we work
We first chatted ChatGPT last month, and have since been keeping an eye on the incredible ways it's been responding to users from across the world. This week, we consider the implications of this very powerful tool that has just landed in the hands of pretty much everyone, and whether we should be excited or concerned by the prospect it might become even more powerful... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 24 Jan 2023 - 31min - 917 - Lasers lure lightning and carbon computing
How hair follicles might hold the key to reversing scars, but not just in skin: in hearts and other organs too. Also, scientists crack how to grow new brain cells in the laboratory dish. And what a mutant from millions of years ago is revealing about how ancient animals mated... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 20 Jan 2023 - 29min - 916 - Dry January: is giving up booze beneficial?
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Tue, 17 Jan 2023 - 29min - 915 - Shouting dolphins and failed rocket launches
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Fri, 13 Jan 2023 - 28min - 914 - Q&A: How to avoid being squashed by a whale
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Tue, 10 Jan 2023 - 1h 01min - 913 - The best of 2022!
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Tue, 03 Jan 2023 - 54min - 912 - A deep dive into oceanography
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Tue, 20 Dec 2022 - 30min - 911 - Nuclear fusion, and magnetic air pollution
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Fri, 16 Dec 2022 - 25min - 910 - Tumours and tectonics: magnets making a mark
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Tue, 13 Dec 2022 - 29min - 909 - AI passes Turing Test, and new drug for Covid
In the news, the old liver drug that turns out to be able to prevent Covid-19 infection, the artificial intelligence systems that pass the Turing test and can write their own computer programmes, and what bats and heavy metal singers have in common. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 - 27min - 908 - 8 billion: an overpopulation crisis?
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Tue, 06 Dec 2022 - 30min - 907 - New Alzheimer's treatment, and mussel memory
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Fri, 02 Dec 2022 - 28min - 906 - Personality testing: no wrong answers?
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Tue, 29 Nov 2022 - 28min - 905 - Disease breath tests, and Perseverance papers
In the news this week, we hear about the novel approach to diagnosing diseases by looking at the chemical compounds in patients' breath, a new way of attacking viruses without damaging our cells, the potential for life on Mars, successful trials prescribing heat for health conditions, and what low frequncy noises we can't even hear can do for our propensity to dance...   Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 - 32min - 904 - Q&A: How did we outpace the big bang?
This week, it is time to put your questions to a panel of excellent experts in one of our Q&A shows! We are going to be investigating how we track disease outbreaks, why our ears go pop, and why neanderthal DNA makes some of us more susceptible to diseases like COVID. Plus, we have a science quiz based on the World Cup. See how you fare against our experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 22 Nov 2022 - 59min - 903 - Reproducibility: science's consistency issue
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Tue, 15 Nov 2022 - 30min - 901 - Growing blood in the lab, and talking to ET
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Fri, 11 Nov 2022 - 28min - 900 - Tuberculosis: tackling the troubling uptick
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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 - 27min - 899 - Gene therapy for epilepsy, and beastly botany
In the news this week, the novel gene therapy for epilepsy which reduces side effects, how birdsong can provide listeners with a mental health boost, we take a terrifying tour of Cambridge University's Botanic Garden, and hear about how Aluminium formate could bring carbon capture to the masses... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 - 28min - 898 - Clocks, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
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Tue, 01 Nov 2022 - 30min - 897 - Charged up bees and deep, dark seas
In the news this week, a new health study of unprecedented scale launches in the UK to improve disease detection, CAR-T therapy is administered without tailoring it specifically to the patient, the shock experienced by the scientist studying buzzing bees, computer games show signs of improving cognition in youngsters, and we delve deep into the ocean for signs of evolution happening before our eyes... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 - 28min - 896 - SEEMONSTER and the circular economy
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Tue, 25 Oct 2022 - 29min - 895 - Neanderthals, lost nets, and net zero
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Fri, 21 Oct 2022 - 34min - 894 - The Latest on Long Covid
This week, the latest research findings on Long Covid. What did a study on over a million people reveal about who's at risk of the condition and for how long? What research is now being done to discover the cause, and what role do reactivating dormant viruses like EBV, more normally the cause of glandular fever, play in the disease? Plus, the doctor disabled by two doses of Covid explains how her life has changed... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 - 31min - 893 - These boots are made for walking
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Fri, 14 Oct 2022 - 26min - 892 - Can fracking calm the energy crisis?
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Tue, 11 Oct 2022 - 25min - 891 - Nobel Prize Roundup
In the news, we dissect the achievements of the Nobel prize winners for science and medicine, ask whether paracetamol causes behavioural problems in children, and hear about the disturbance caused by cockatoos in Sydney's suburbs... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 - 42min - 890 - The Trieste Next science festival
This week the Naked Scientists have been in the City of Science - Trieste - to take part in their annual science festival and speak to some of the researchers pushing back the frontiers of knowledge in this beautiful part of northeastern Italy. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 04 Oct 2022 - 59min - 889 - Sweeteners, seagrass, and sterilised plastic
In the programme this week, we look at the plastic that sterilises itself, why sweeteners are worse for you than sugar, and how will seagrass react to climate change? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 - 31min - 888 - Q&A: Deadly Lasers and Delicious Brains
This week, it is time to put your questions to a panel of excellent experts in one of our Q&A shows! We are going to be investigating if truth serum really exists, what would happen if the Earth stopped rotating, and just how much nutrition is there in the human brain? Plus, we have a science quiz based on today in history and going back to school. See how you fare against our experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 - 58min - 887 - You can't teach an old dogma new tricks
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Tue, 13 Sep 2022 - 31min - 886 - First known amputation uncovered in Borneo
A massive archeological find has been making headlines all over the news this week. Plus, 'breakfast like a king, dine like a pauper', is there any truth to the old saying? And are video GP consultations safe enough to be a permanent fixture in medical practice? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 - 29min - 885 - The Microbiome: Trust Your Gut?
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Tue, 06 Sep 2022 - 35min - 884 - COVID Vaccines and Coffee Cups in Hot Water
In the news this week: mRNA vaccine giants Moderna and Pzfizer face a legal battle over potential technology infringements, and a new study explains how small talk with strangers before working together can improve strategic interactions. Plus, we hear about research suggesting cannabis use doesn't impact an indivduals motivation, the biggest animal alliance outside human beings, and the hot take on cancer risk in coffee drinkers...  Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 - 29min - 883 - All About Drought
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