The Naked Scientists - Stripping Down Science
Interactive science, medicine and technology weekly live radio show with Cambridge University's Dr Chris Smith. We strip down science and lay the facts bare answering your science questions, interviewing top scientists and catching up with the latest top science news stories.
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Violent Volcanoes - Naked Scientists 15.05.05
Celebrating two hundred years since the devastating eruption of Indonesia's ...
Celebrating two hundred years since the devastating eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora, this week, accompanied by music from Michael Levy, we explore the science of volcanoes. We find out what causes volcanoes, we ask whether eruptions can be pred...
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Game on! The Science of Video Gaming - Naked Scientists 15.04.28
This week, the science at play in an industry that ...
This week, the science at play in an industry that dwarfs both Hollywood and the music world: computer games. We hear how video games are altering the brains of players, why lovers of the shoot-em-up could be carving out a niche for themselves in th...
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Could Earth be Knocked Out of Orbit? - Naked Scientists 15.04.21
This week, you pit your wits against the Naked Scientists ...
This week, you pit your wits against the Naked Scientists team and challenge us to answer your science questions. Is there an evolutionary reason why humans have rhythm? Do people sneeze in their sleep? Why do crabs walk sideways? And how do stinging...
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Defying Death... - Naked Scientists 15.04.14
The impact of modern medicine is drastically changing our concept ...
The impact of modern medicine is drastically changing our concept of death. Increasingly, people are being resuscitated successfully, sometimes hours after they first died. So this week we toe the line between life and death, learn lessons from those...
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Egg-cellent Easter Science - Naked Scientists 15.04.07
The Naked Scientists take a special holiday look at some ...
The Naked Scientists take a special holiday look at some egg-cellent Easter science, including a breakthrough in how to unboil an egg, the genetically modified chickens that can't catch bird flu and why the Easter bunny might be knocked off his perch...
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Whodunnit? Fascinating Forensics - Naked Scientists 15.03.31
From crime scene to court room and all the evidence ...
From crime scene to court room and all the evidence in between. Join Chris Smith and Ginny Smith at our reconstructed crime scene to find out how science is used to help solve a forensic investigation, including dissecting pig organs, testing for dru...
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Brain on fire - Naked Scientists 15.03.24
This week, how rogue antibodies turned one woman's existence into ...
This week, how rogue antibodies turned one woman's existence into a living nightmare of delusions, hallucinations and paranoia, we examine the evidence that ME - or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) - might be an autoimmune disease, and why the blues mi...
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Chasing Rainbows: The Quest to Understand Light - Naked Scientists 15.03.17
Is it a particle? Or is it a wave? This ...
Is it a particle? Or is it a wave? This week we're looking at light. From its earliest origins and what it can reveal about the Big Bang, to why Newton prodded his eye with a needle to probe the origins of colour, how the brain decodes the visual wor...
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The Life Parasitic - Naked Scientists 15.03.10
This week, the world of parasites. We find out what's ...
This week, the world of parasites. We find out what's living in you and on you, how these invaders hijack your immune system and how they can even control the behaviours and body shapes of their hosts. Plus, in the news, the oldest remains of our fir...
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Eureka Streaker: Experiments that Changed the World - Naked Scientists 15.03.03
From Archimedes leaping from his bath shouting Eureka, to Isaac ...
From Archimedes leaping from his bath shouting Eureka, to Isaac Newton's falling apples and Volta's piles that produced electricity on tap, this week we recreate some of the scientific experiments that changed the way we view the world. Join Ginny Sm...
