The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
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,...
Tuesday 29 September 2020 : With an eye on World Vegetarian Day we're looking at the feasibility of a reduced meat diet: What can cutting down calories from meat do for...
Tuesday 22 September 2020 : Do algorithms run the world? Nowadays we measure the amount of data we generate in zettabytes - that's 1 followed by 21 zeroes. This data,...
Tuesday 15 September 2020 : This week - a show with a difference! Space journalist Richard Hollingham and space scientist Katie Mack join Chris to probe the science...
Tuesday 08 September 2020 : This week, the story of how humankind has gazed into space, from the first basic telescopes to what gravitational waves are now revealing...
Tuesday 01 September 2020 : Where did the coronavirus come from? The story we've been told is that it started off in bats, and then jumped into humans some time late...
Tuesday 25 August 2020 : This week, with our climate changing, will the traditional "English country garden" become a thing of the past? Will pests and diseases...
Tuesday 18 August 2020 : This week, How do we understand each other, from infants to adults how do we go about relating to one another. Plus, in the news, A Russian...
Tuesday 11 August 2020 : Meet the COVID-19 patients who are still suffering the after-effects of the disease, months after catching the virus. They weren't ill...
Tuesday 04 August 2020 : This week, we're getting stuck into some sizzling science! It's BBQ time, and we're going to explain the chemistry of cookery, the science...
Tuesday 28 July 2020 : It's quiz time! Three fabulous listeners take on our questions - on everything from physics & space to the natural world. Who will...
Tuesday 21 July 2020 : This week we're celebrating the hundredth birthday of DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin and how her work helped to unravel the DNA helix. Plus,...
Tuesday 14 July 2020 : This week, we're meeting the neighbours. Our planetary neighbours that is, to take a look at Mars and Venus, and the new missions heading...
Tuesday 07 July 2020 : This week, testing, tracing and monitoring. How does a covid test actually work? Do antibodies to covid mean immunity? And the tech to...
Tuesday 30 June 2020 : Forget banks, forget airlines - can we bail out the planet? As the world begins to reopen from lockdown, we're asking whether the present...
Tuesday 23 June 2020 : This week, lockdown may be easing, but the pubs still haven't flung open their doors yet, so this week, we're bringing a little of the pub...
Tuesday 16 June 2020 : This week, put on your hard hat and steel capped boots: we're journeying to the centre of the earth! From the soil at the surface to the...
Tuesday 09 June 2020 : Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of some Nobel-prize-winning science: the fifth state of matter, a strange quantum soup known as a...
Tuesday 09 June 2020 : Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of some Nobel-prize-winning science: the fifth state of matter, a strange quantum soup known as a...
The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
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,...
Should You go Vegetarian?
With an eye on World Vegetarian Day we're looking at the feasibility of a reduced meat diet: What can cutting down calories from meat do for...
Big Data, Big Problems?
Do algorithms run the world? Nowadays we measure the amount of data we generate in zettabytes - that's 1 followed by 21 zeroes. This data,...
Covid to Climate: Dissecting Science News
This week - a show with a difference! Space journalist Richard Hollingham and space scientist Katie Mack join Chris to probe the science...
Telescopes Through Time
This week, the story of how humankind has gazed into space, from the first basic telescopes to what gravitational waves are now revealing...
Where Did COVID Come From?
Where did the coronavirus come from? The story we've been told is that it started off in bats, and then jumped into humans some time late...
Gardens, Plants and Climate Change
This week, with our climate changing, will the traditional "English country garden" become a thing of the past? Will pests and diseases...
Can You Understand Me?
This week, How do we understand each other, from infants to adults how do we go about relating to one another. Plus, in the news, A Russian...
Sick of COVID: The Long Haulers
Meet the COVID-19 patients who are still suffering the after-effects of the disease, months after catching the virus. They weren't ill...
Sizzling BBQ Science!
This week, we're getting stuck into some sizzling science! It's BBQ time, and we're going to explain the chemistry of cookery, the science...
Science Pub Quiz: From Cosmos To G&Ts
It's quiz time! Three fabulous listeners take on our questions - on everything from physics & space to the natural world. Who will...
Rosalind Franklin: the hidden story of DNA
This week we're celebrating the hundredth birthday of DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin and how her work helped to unravel the DNA helix. Plus,...
Meet the Neighbours: Venus and Mars
This week, we're meeting the neighbours. Our planetary neighbours that is, to take a look at Mars and Venus, and the new missions heading...
Covid Science: Test, Track, Trace
This week, testing, tracing and monitoring. How does a covid test actually work? Do antibodies to covid mean immunity? And the tech to...
Bail Out The Planet
Forget banks, forget airlines - can we bail out the planet? As the world begins to reopen from lockdown, we're asking whether the present...
Let's Get Quizzical: Summer Science Pub Quiz
This week, lockdown may be easing, but the pubs still haven't flung open their doors yet, so this week, we're bringing a little of the pub...
Under Our Feet: What's Inside Earth?
This week, put on your hard hat and steel capped boots: we're journeying to the centre of the earth! From the soil at the surface to the...
The Fifth State of Matter
Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of some Nobel-prize-winning science: the fifth state of matter, a strange quantum soup known as a...
The Fifth State of Matter
Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of some Nobel-prize-winning science: the fifth state of matter, a strange quantum soup known as a...
