The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
Tuesday 02 March 2021 : This week, the good news on vaccines for Covid-19, the helicopter taking to the sky on Mars, and the birds that make alarm sounds to scare...
Tuesday 23 February 2021 : What has happened to learning in the era of COVID-19? In this episode: the people living through the psychological consequences of future...
Tuesday 16 February 2021 : As the UK surpasses its goal of vaccinating 15 million people by the 15th of February, we're taking an in-depth look at COVID vaccines: how...
Tuesday 09 February 2021 : What happens when the scientist... becomes the subject? We're examining the strange world of self-experimentation, from the history of...
Tuesday 02 February 2021 : This week, we're looking at nuclear power and asking, in today's world, whether we really need nuclear power? Are the alternatives really...
Tuesday 26 January 2021 : This week, we're unpacking ultrasound, imagining MRI and pondering PET scans, as we ask - how does medical imaging actually work? And what...
Tuesday 19 January 2021 : This week, looking for a new hobby? We're exploring the science of handicrafts, including why knitting boosts wellbeing, the first textiles...
Tuesday 12 January 2021 : We're looking ahead to the science coming up in 2021! From the Large Hadron Collider restarting, to the USA likely rejoining the Paris...
Tuesday 05 January 2021 : In this week's episode, we're going to take you on a journey through some extra special science stories we reported on in 2020 - from...
Monday 04 January 2021 : Happy New Year! Welcome to 2021. To get the year started we've got a special bonus sneak peek at one of our other programmes for you this...
Tuesday 29 December 2020 : In this week's special episode, we're reflecting on some of the science we've reported on this year. Of course, the Covid crisis means that...
Tuesday 22 December 2020 : Grab your controllers, we're diving into the world of videogames, how the music can get into your head, the psychology of games, and how...
Monday 21 December 2020 : Merry Christmas! Here's something for your stocking: another bonus episode showcase for you this week. It's our weekly Naked Reflections...
Tuesday 15 December 2020 : It's Beethoven's 250th birthday! What today's tech tells us about his music? And have computers have become powerful enough to take the same...
Tuesday 08 December 2020 : This week, for World AIDS Day, we put HIV under the microscope, and talk to someone who's actually been cured, and the doctor who cured him....
Monday 07 December 2020 : From time to time, we showcase here on the Naked Scientists feed some of the other programmes we make across our Naked Network. So, this...
Tuesday 01 December 2020 : Through November we've been musing over the science of movement, from enormous planetary scales to tiny cellular ones. And so this week, to...
Tuesday 24 November 2020 : From strange-looking sperm to cancers that spread, we're looking at the light, and dark, sides of cell movement. Plus, a second Covid...
Tuesday 17 November 2020 : From ancient past to global present, us humans are a migratory bunch. But with climate change redrawing maps of the world, what does the...
Tuesday 10 November 2020 : This week, will mass COVID testing in Liverpool get us out of lockdown? Antibodies to defend the brain; and why we've evolved to laugh! Plus...
Tuesday 03 November 2020 : This month (November 2020), we're theming our shows around movement. From cells moving at one extreme, to planetary movements at the other!...
Tuesday 27 October 2020 : This week, news of the people catching coronavirus on purpose; those waiting-out the pandemic in an old nuclear bunker, and the good news...
Tuesday 20 October 2020 : This week, we're talking trees! From how they grow, to the oldest ones on Earth, to how they die, and what trees can do for our cities. Plus...
Tuesday 13 October 2020 : This week Chris is joined by top palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger and BMJ executive editor Theo Bloom to dissect the science behind the...
Tuesday 06 October 2020 : This week - we're pondering periods. With about 800 million people menstruating each day around the globe, we're re-visiting the biology,...
The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
The Future of Fertility
This week, the good news on vaccines for Covid-19, the helicopter taking to the sky on Mars, and the birds that make alarm sounds to scare...
Learning In The Time Of COVID
What has happened to learning in the era of COVID-19? In this episode: the people living through the psychological consequences of future...
COVID Vaccines Explained
As the UK surpasses its goal of vaccinating 15 million people by the 15th of February, we're taking an in-depth look at COVID vaccines: how...
Stories of Self-Experimentation
What happens when the scientist... becomes the subject? We're examining the strange world of self-experimentation, from the history of...
Do we Need Nuclear Power?
This week, we're looking at nuclear power and asking, in today's world, whether we really need nuclear power? Are the alternatives really...
X-ray to MRI: Unpacking Medical Imaging
This week, we're unpacking ultrasound, imagining MRI and pondering PET scans, as we ask - how does medical imaging actually work? And what...
Fabulous Fabrics and Nifty Knitting
This week, looking for a new hobby? We're exploring the science of handicrafts, including why knitting boosts wellbeing, the first textiles...
Vaccines & Space Voyages: 2021 In Science
We're looking ahead to the science coming up in 2021! From the Large Hadron Collider restarting, to the USA likely rejoining the Paris...
Animals, astronauts, and an ancient ice bird
In this week's episode, we're going to take you on a journey through some extra special science stories we reported on in 2020 - from...
Showcasing Naked Astronomy: Dark Matter
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2021. To get the year started we've got a special bonus sneak peek at one of our other programmes for you this...
Cake, Cows, Climate Change: Best Of 2020
In this week's special episode, we're reflecting on some of the science we've reported on this year. Of course, the Covid crisis means that...
Video Games on the Brain
Grab your controllers, we're diving into the world of videogames, how the music can get into your head, the psychology of games, and how...
Bonus episode: Highlighting Naked Reflections
Merry Christmas! Here's something for your stocking: another bonus episode showcase for you this week. It's our weekly Naked Reflections...
Scroll Over Beethoven: Machines Making Music
It's Beethoven's 250th birthday! What today's tech tells us about his music? And have computers have become powerful enough to take the same...
HIV Under the Microscope
This week, for World AIDS Day, we put HIV under the microscope, and talk to someone who's actually been cured, and the doctor who cured him....
Bonus episode: Showcasing Naked Gaming
From time to time, we showcase here on the Naked Scientists feed some of the other programmes we make across our Naked Network. So, this...
Movement Science: Devotion to Motion
Through November we've been musing over the science of movement, from enormous planetary scales to tiny cellular ones. And so this week, to...
Cells On The Move
From strange-looking sperm to cancers that spread, we're looking at the light, and dark, sides of cell movement. Plus, a second Covid...
People On The Move
From ancient past to global present, us humans are a migratory bunch. But with climate change redrawing maps of the world, what does the...
Earth On The Move
This week, will mass COVID testing in Liverpool get us out of lockdown? Antibodies to defend the brain; and why we've evolved to laugh! Plus...
Animals on the Move
This month (November 2020), we're theming our shows around movement. From cells moving at one extreme, to planetary movements at the other!...
Controlling Covid-19: lockdown, or let rip?
This week, news of the people catching coronavirus on purpose; those waiting-out the pandemic in an old nuclear bunker, and the good news...
Talking Trees: Science in the Forest
This week, we're talking trees! From how they grow, to the oldest ones on Earth, to how they die, and what trees can do for our cities. Plus...
Trump's Treatments & Nobel Prizes
This week Chris is joined by top palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger and BMJ executive editor Theo Bloom to dissect the science behind the...
Menstrual Science: periods, pills, poverty
This week - we're pondering periods. With about 800 million people menstruating each day around the globe, we're re-visiting the biology,...
