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The Naked Scientists Science Radio Show is a live weekly audience-interactive science radio talk show broadcast live on BBC radio, and on the net, and archived online. The programme takes science questions live from the audience on any topic, contains topical science news stories, and features interviews with guest scientists. Primary Format : Science Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Cambridge State/Province : Unknown Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Naked Scientists Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Naked Scientists Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The Naked Scientists Naked Scientists 09.11.01 - Where do lost socks go? The most distant object ever discovered as well as the events of National Pathology week feature in this week's show as we take on your science questions! We investigate whysocks go missing in the wash, whether light from the sun is a continuous beam and whether numerous vaccines can be given together in one dose. We also find out how higher heels make for a better runner and reveal the world's fastest camera. Plus, we find out why we get a better signal when holding an aerial and show you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.10.29 - Introducing - The Diamond Light Source Podcast This week we're showcasing a new bimonthly programme strand which we're making in collaboration with the folks at Diamond, the UK's Synchrotron Light Source. In this episode, we dig deep into the world of archaeology to learn how scientists at Diamond are investigating our cultural heritage. We find out how scanning samples of the Dead Sea Scrolls can help decipher them, how probing timber from the Mary Rose can improve its conservation and how studying pigments in paintings could protect m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.10.25 - The Diseased Brain We explore the basis of brain diseases on this week's Naked Scientists. We find out what happens to the brain in Huntington's disease, discover the genes behind Alzheimers and a potential treatment for autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis or MS. Also, the nerve cells in the ear that make loud sounds painful, the extraordinary eyes of the Mantis Shrimp and the world's largest web spinning spider. Plus, how spiders make glue from silk and snot, and in Kitchen Science, we show you a way ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.10.18 - High Altitude Adventures We reach for the skies on this week's Naked Scientists, with High Altitude Adventures. We find out how the body reacts to the low oxygen at high altitudes, and join Laura Soul testing the theories on a trek up to Everest base camp. Plus, we find out how the continental collisions that made mountains may have plunged the Earth into an ice age. We also hear how the rate of mutation changes in lab-bench evolution, how looming sounds make our vision more sensitive, why poking a stem cell can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.10.11 - Why does Water Expand when it Freezes? The Nobel prizes feature on the Naked Scientists this week alongside a bumper crop of your science questions! We find out why water expands when it freezes, whether animals have regional accents, and how many rockets you would need to crash into the moon to knock it off course. Plus, how the insects splattered on windscreens are helping scientists to study biodiversity, the virus linked to chronic fatigue syndrome and the prospect of a paper-thin digital camera. Also, We find out how India ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.10.04 - Catching Up with Cancer Research This week, we catch up with the latest from the front line of cancer research. Kat Arney reports from the National Cancer Research Institute's annual conference, we find out how proton therapy is promising for targeting tumours and look at the hormones and stem cells involved in breast cancer. Also, the role of aspirin in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, how recession could be healthy & tuning in to the Earth's vibrations. Plus, in Kitchen Science, we show you how to see using sound! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.09.27 - Researchers Revealed! We bring you the highlights from European Researchers Night 2009, which filled the Great North Museum with explosions, music and laughter. We meet Brainiac's Jon Tickle and discuss the physics of custard, find out why My Little Ponies belong in a museum and explore the murder mystery of the Lindow Man. Also, how embryology inspired fashion design and how Spanish rocks point to North Sea oil. Plus, we rock out with the Punk Scientists... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.09.20 - Life in the Branches Join us in a peek at the secret lives of birds. We find out just how a cuckoo convinces others to care for it's young, and the tragic outcome for the cuckoo chick when the rouse is discovered. We meet the clever corvids, capable of problem solving feats that may even outfox the great apes. Also, how green tea makes strong bones,the genes involved in prostate cancer and online robotic surgeons. Plus, in Kitchen Science we find out how Dave Ansell spent his schooldays - making stationery ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.09.13 - Building Bodies and Mending Broken Hearts We discover the science of bionic bodies - how new technologies, materials and stem cells can help to repair and rebuild your body... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.09.06 - Can you run faster on the moon? This week we're taking on the questions you've waited all summer to find the answers to. We find out whether humans can run faster on the moon than here on Earth, if tea tastes better in china cups, and if talking to plants can help them grow. Plus we look into the world of statistics to learn how many ants it would take to carry a human and discover how many people in the world are having sex right at this moment! Plus, in Kitchen Science, we bring you a watery way to measure upthrust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 08.12.24 - Science from the Sporran Here is a taster of our new science experiment video podcast called Science from the Sporran. This features exciting kitchen science experiments for you to do at home performed by Dr Otherford and his inimitable hair. To find out more search for science sporran on itumes or go to www.nakedscientists.com/sporran Here's a taster of our new science experiment video podcast, called Science from the Sporran, that features Kitchen Science experiments performed by Dr Ernest Otherford and his ini ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.08.30 - Diana and Meera's Best Bits Diana and Meera select their favourite bits of Naked Science, including parajetting over the Himalayas, digging up Greek brothels and making the perfect cup of tea scientifically. Plus, Dr Hal blows up an ostrich egg and blasts a 'barking dog' down a seven-foot test tube. *No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast* Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.08.23 - Ben and Dave's Best Bits Ben and Dave select their favourite bits of Naked Science: from taking an MRI of outer space to orange fireballs and chocolate teapots. We explore the boys' best Naked capers. Plus, we join Dr Hal for a gassy set of explosive experiments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.08.15 - Helen's Best Bits It's big, it's blue, it's where life began and life certainly wouldn't be the same without it: yes, that's right, it's the sea. This week Helen Scales is taking the show underwater to explore her favourite realm. Among the marine menagerie she'll be revisiting the incredible story of squid that see with their entire body, once again be meeting the humming toadfish, which is teaching us a thing or two about making music, and we'll catch up with the colourful clownfish that, just like Nemo, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.08.09 - Kat's Best Bits This week, Kat Arney has been through the archives and picked out her personal Naked highlights, including making experimental jelly, sneezing at computer screens, stabbing potatoes and Ben dancing (badly) in the studio. She looks back on advances in cancer therapy, developments in making people bionic and how new diseases emerge, as well as reliving the chance to meet Alan Titchmarsh, for a chat about the importance of ponds. Plus, we have a brand new bit of the Naked Scientists, where w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.08.02 - Peeing on an Electric Fence What happens if you urinate on an electric fence? We find out the answer to this and some of your other science questions on this week's Naked Scientists, including why chilli peppers are red, how does squinting help you see further and what's the best way to align your laundry with the wind? Plus, why blue food colouring could reduce the damage of spinal injury, how shrimps could catalyse biodiesel production and the physics behind the regularity of raindrops... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.07.26 - Rubbish! We dig deep into the science of rubbish, refuse, waste and recycling... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.07.19 - Making Babies - Pregnancy and Fertility The latest in the science of fertility, IVF and pregnancy... We find out how pre-implantation tests could improve the success of IVF and how stress during pregnancy affects foetal development. Plus, why knowledge is its own reward, how a jockey's posture makes horses run faster and how science publishing on the web is about to change. In Kitchen Science, Dave finds out how a bag of liquid cushions a developing baby inside it's mother! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.07.16 - The Rap Guide to Evolution - Darwinian Hip Hop Award winning Canadian hip hop artist Baba Brinkman brings us his Rap Guide to Evolution, an hour of clever, witty and scientifically accurate rhymes that will have you seeing Darwin from a whole new perspective. Baba explores the history and current understanding of Darwin's theory, combining hilarious remixes of popular rap songs with clever lyrical storytelling that covers Natural Selection, Artificial Selection, Sexual Selection, Group Selection, Unity of Common Descent, and Evolutiona ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked Scientists 09.07.05 - Why Does Toothpaste Make Food Taste Funny? This week, we're taking on your science brainteasers! We find out why toothpaste ruins other flavours, whether humans have a mating season and why food goes in multicoloured, but comes out brown... Plus, fighting Fido's fleas with fungus, stressed men take more risks, and predicting if hepatitis B will lead to liver cancer. In Kitchen Science, we make a fruity fireball with orange peel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website