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Probing the weird, wacky and spectacular, the Naked Scientists Special Editions are special one-off scientific reports, investigations and interviews on cutting-edge topics by the Naked Scie...
A child dies from malaria roughly every minute. A stark reminder of why urgent action is still needed. "Driven to end malaria, now we can, n...
In this episode, how kangaroos alter their postures to store more energy in their Achilles tendons and boost movement efficiency, the moths...
This month, compelling evidence for why some species keep their eyes closed for sometimes several weeks after birth, scientists prove that t...
Clots in our blood vessels can be responsible for very serious health problems such as strokes and heart attacks. To combat this, some peopl...
Peter Cowley was an entrepreneur, angel investor, and for many years was the Naked Scientists technology commentator, a role he fell into by...
With only a few walls between an astronaut and a rapid death, what do we know about the various dangers to the human body during space trave...
This month, as the eLife Podcast hits its century, we hear how getting frog dads to cross-foster tadpoles has revealed the way in which some...
As the global population heads toward 10 billion, the pressure on agriculture is mounting. With that in mind, the UK's Advanced Research and...
"Warp speed, Mr Sulu." It's the kind of command we've only heard in science fiction - until now. Did a team of scientists just bend spacetim...
In the eLife podcast, a university compost heap has turned up Finland's first documented "giant virus". Also, why monkeys de-sand their supp...
Cambridge University have informed us that, for cost cutting reasons, they intend to make Dr Chris Smith redundant. Naturally, this jeopardi...
In episode 10 of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast, the shocking finding that as many as 2 invertebrate species are going extinct each week in Au...
Your personal data could soon be stored not on a phone or server but locked inside a molecule so tiny it's invisible to the naked eye. Resea...
What if a parasite could rewire your brain - not to harm you, but to make you... more romantic? This week on The Naked Scientists, we're exp...
Using only soft tubes and a continuous stream of air, a team of researchers at AMOLF in Amsterdam have created one of the fastest and simple...
What is the impact of an extra year at school on the brain? Also, how poison dart frogs come by their toxins, using movies to track the deve...
In this episode, how climate change impacts kelp forests, selecting for less animal-friendly variants, refining AI models for better water i...
This month, how films are helping neuroscientists link brain activity patterns to specific thought processes, a breakthrough in managing opi...
Personalised medicine and gene screens for disease, why dinosaurs disappeared, planning for droughts, and new vistas in the drylands arena.....
Predicting how influenza viruses will evolve, how deserts decompose matter despite the dry, what worms are revealing about a gene linked to...
This month, signs that cancers communicate with the brain to alter mood, why antibodies are unreliable in research, evidence that social tra...
In this episode, why approaches to cancer care need a pro-active approach in future, the opportunities arising for the cancer vaccine space,...
This month, Chris Smith hears how blood-thirsty bacteria sniff out wounds to trigger infections, how ants navigate at night, how male and fe...
This month, evidence that the microbiome is controlling blood pressure - so will we treat hypertension with probiotics in future? Also, plas...
This month, how animals hibernate and evidence that muscle myosin makes its own heat in the cold, brain scans to reveal how ketamine relieve...
A problem that's been puzzling scientists for decades is the way our bodies recognise cold stimuli, and researchers at the University of Mic...
This month we hear what orangutans can tell us about the origins of human speech, we ask if science making life even harder for dyslexics, w...
This month the connections that human inhabitants have to the coast, why we're still in the middle of a worsening extinction crisis despite...
In the eLife Podcast this month, signs that bees are oblivious to pesticides in nectar, sea anemone stinging strategies, a new means of cell...
Better awareness of the precious resource that is water, getting a grip on coastal ecosystems and the impact of pollution, why recycled plas...
This time we hear how many species are being driven to extinction by human trade, why clinical psychology needs an update for the 21st Centu...
Ken Mcginley was there during some of the first tests of hydrogen bombs in the 1950s. We were lucky enough to hear his story... Like this po...
There are many factors that might affect the way we make decisions: our age, our past experiences, even our mood that day. But now, a new st...
Comparatively, we know an awful lot about life on the surface of planet earth. We know a lot less about the extent of life in our oceans, an...
Babies born during the Covid-19 lockdowns are behind on their language development. That's the finding of a recent study comparing infants b...
A new non invasive technique to pick up breast cancer has been unveiled by UK scientists. Breast cancer is the most diagnosed form cancer in...
Apopo is a charity that trains African giant pouched rats for humanitarian purposes, with a view to combating some of the challenges faced b...
Did you end up in your dream job? Or did you end up pursuing a career quite intensely for some reason that eludes you? Perhaps the media rep...
There's news of a huge rift in the world of video games... EA Sports, who made the first ever FIFA football game in 1993, have announced tha...
Now, I want you to cast your mind back to that first lockdown (if you can bear it) and to think about the ways you chose to fill all that ne...
Dingoes are native Australian dogs, although how and when they got to Australia isn't known. They were certainly already there by the time t...
Coffee prices are on the rise and the plant is said to decline by 60% before 2050, meaning new coffee alternatives are being considered in o...
If I asked you to give up one of your five senses, which one would you choose? Chances are, instead of giving up your ability to see or hear...
The world has a huge problem with plastics. While they are a materials scientist's dream in terms of their properties, they are an environme...
Researchers have been studying DNA as a method to store binary data. As data generation continues to increase in the information age, we nee...
Playing games may be something you do in your spare time or in the queue at the supermarket, but striving for that elusive high score can al...
There are over 7,000 documented languages in the world to date, and now we might have another to add to the list: the one spoken by pigs. No...
Researchers from Indiana University studied the reactions of volatile compounds released when cleaning with ozone in the air. They found the...
Nuclear weapons are at the forefront of news but what are they and how do they work? Anoushka Handa reports... Like this podcast? Please hel...
As NASA aims to send humans back to the moon in the upcoming years, research on how to supply oxygen to future settlements on the moon are u...