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Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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The fight against Ebola - 14.11.17
Marie Blackman Northwood is a biomedical scientists normally based in ...
Marie Blackman Northwood is a biomedical scientists normally based in Cambridge,who is currently in Sierra Leone, lending her hand to the fight against Ebola. She spoke to Chris Smith about her experiences. ...
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Body Clocks - 14.11.14
Are you a morning person or a night owl? Whichever ...
Are you a morning person or a night owl? Whichever you are, your daily rhythm is determined by your circadian clock - powered by a small group of cells in the brain - and it tells you when to get up and when to sleep. Now Professor Bill Wisden and hi...
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Shift Work Shafts Brains - 14.11.14
Researchers say that doing anti-social shifts over many years can ...
Researchers say that doing anti-social shifts over many years can dent your brain power. In other words you can't think straight. The team collected data from three thousand workers in France, who underwent memory and other tests of brain function. I...
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How wildcats became kitty cats - 14.11.14
Just a handful of genetic changes are what turned wildcats ...
Just a handful of genetic changes are what turned wildcats into domestic pets, scientists have now shown. And many of these changes are linked with genes that affect how the brain processes rewards and pleasure. In other words, humans won over cats b...
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Religion and nature - 14.11.14
Religion and nature might have more to do with each ...
Religion and nature might have more to do with each other than you thought. In the biggest study of its kind, a team of evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, linguists and religious scholars examined the religions of societies from around the wor...
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Women in Science - 14.11.10
Tim Bussey, professor, budding rock star and performer explains to ...
Tim Bussey, professor, budding rock star and performer explains to Hannah Critchlow how he's addressing scientific gender inequality with a re-release from the 80s......
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Healthy-Looking Leaders - 14.11.10
Would you prefer your prime minister, president, or beloved leader ...
Would you prefer your prime minister, president, or beloved leader to look healthy, intelligent, or both? Researchers from the VU University of Amsterdam say that given the choice, people prioritise healthy-looking candidates over intelligent ones....
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Imaging the Genome - 14.10.31
The quest to understand the fundamental rules governing life has ...
The quest to understand the fundamental rules governing life has taken another step forward, as new research from the University of Cambridge reveals. ...
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eLife Episode 15: Flu, Cannabis and HIV - 14.10.31
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about influenza pandemics, eating too much, cannabis and the brain, HIV cure research, and the evolution of sea squirts......
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Foreign species invading the UK - 14.10.21
As international trade increases, particularly by sea, we're seeing more ...
As international trade increases, particularly by sea, we're seeing more stowaways; but not of the human variety. Scientists are reporting that animals and plants are hitching rides around the world on boats - and even on fishing tackle. They then se...
