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Quick fire facts on hot science news stories...
The waiting list for kidney transplants is one of the longest. Here's Phil Sansom with the QuickFire Science of kidney transplantation, incl...
Advances in genetics and molecular biology mean that it is now possible to treat and even cure a raft of disorders for which there was previ...
Human papillomaviruses are the cause of cervical and head and neck cancers in men and women. About half of the adult population have been ex...
Worldwide, nearly 40 million people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Here's the Quick Fire Science, with Phil Sansom... HI...
Up to 10% of young people are infected with chlamydia. Here's the Quick Fire Science, from Phil Sansom...Chlamydia is a bacterial infection....
It has been announced by the government that driverless cars will be trialled on the roads of the UK by January 2015. The Ministry for Trans...
Last weekend, many people will have noticed the moon looking especially bigand bright. This is because of a phenomenon known as the supermoo...
US government this week discovered vials of smallpox virus whilst cleaning out an old storeroom. This was shocking, as it was thought that t...
Last week, the 2nd to last to last wild born Spix's Macaw died. The 40 year old parrot, named Presley, was thought to have inspired the film...
Capital punishment hasn't been used in the UK since 1964, however many countries, including the USA and China, still execute prisoners ever...
This week a computer program reportedly passed the 'Turing test' for the first time, tricking people into believing it is human. This was pa...
This week, Alexander Shulgin, the so called 'Godfather of ecstasy' died peacefully in his sleep. The 88 year old is best known for introduci...
This week, a farm worker in Argentina stumbled upon what has turned out to be a bone belonging to the largest known dinosaur to have ever wa...
This week news broke that Turkey had suffered its worst ever mining disaster after an explosion and fire in a mine in Soma claimed almost th...
This week the Royal College of Physicians have issued a report looking at the standard of asthma care in the UK. There are over 5 million as...
This week, a teenage boy survived the 5 hour flight from California to Hawaii, hidden in the wheel well of a plane. Experts are astonished t...
Wednesday, the 2nd of April was World Autism Awareness Day so to help you get to grips with this often misunderstood condition here's your Q...
Now that Malaysian Airways Flight MH370 has officially been acknowledged to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean with all lives lost, att...
With the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 still missing after nearly two weeks, some people are asking how you can lose a plane? But with ove...
Last week much of the UK witnessed the spectacular displays of the Northern Lights, but what causes this phenomenal natural light show? Here...
The Winter Olympics are finishing in Sochi, Russia this week. But it's not just the athletes who've spent the last four years training for t...
Last week a young, physically healthy giraffe called Marius in a zoo in Copenhagen was put down, amidst an uproar from animal lovers. The zo...
This week doctors are trying to bring Formula One Racing Star Michael Schumacher out of a coma which was medically induced following a skiin...
Purple tomatoes might soon be making their way onto our dinner plates as the genetically modified fruit is currently being mass produced in...
Crowd funding programmes like Kick-starter have been used to raise money for music projects and Hollywood films, but now it could even be us...
This week, Hell literally froze over, as the small Michigan town of Hell experienced temperatures of minus 17 degrees Celsius. And Hell wasn...
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012, and it has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crat...
The UK government has this week announced changes to its subsidies for renewable energy generation. But how much energy does the UK generate...
This week is AIDS Awareness Week. It is thought that, worldwide, 35 million people carry the HIV virus, and although current drugs work well...
The 19th November was World Toilet Day. Established in 2001, the event seeks to draw attention to global sanitation and health problems asso...
This week, reports suggest that the 2013 opium harvest in Central and South Asia was the largest on record. But what is opium? Here's your q...
This week archaeologists in Queensland, Australia, found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre-long. Archaeologists hav...
Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason, why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot! So here...
This week saw the final of the Great British Bake Off, a television programme in which 13 people spend a weekend in a tent, baking cakes and...
It's official: the UK has a slug problem. This week, researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich asked the public for help to help the...
This week, the Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry were awarded. Here's your quickfire science on the life of the prize's found...
A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called 'bog body' with intact skin anywhere in the world. He...
This week, salvage experts have been trying to raise the MS Costa Concordia, a cruise liner which partially sank near the island of Giglio o...
Zoo keepers in Edinburgh have said this week that they're uncertain whether a giant panda in the city's zoo might give birth to a cub. But w...
You may have heard this week about a new building at 20 Fenchurch St, in the City of London. The 37-storey skyscraper, which has already bee...
This week, nuclear expert Mycle Schneider, formerly an adviser to the French and German governments has said that he's deeply worried about...
US-based entrepreneur Elon Musk is not a man who's lacking ambition in life. His company Space-X has already built rockets which compete wit...
This week, star gazers have been turning their eyes to the sky to look for shooting stars, as the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak. Bu...
This week the world's first lab grown beef burger was cooked and eaten in London. But how was it made and why is it important? Like this pod...
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This Sunday sees the start of the 19th World Transplant Games in Durban, South Africa. The games offer the opportunity for those who have un...
This week, a team at Toronto university won the "Igor I. Sikorsky Competition" by building a man-powered helicopter and flying their machine...
A baby has been born in the US using a new genetic screening test for IVF embryos Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked...
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The virtual currency 'bitcoin' has long been used by gamers to buy extra features online. But now you can spend your savings on real life pi...