Naked Scientists Special Editions
Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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Detection dogs - 14.10.15
Whilst Magic - a young golden retriever - may love ...
Whilst Magic - a young golden retriever - may love chasing a stick, curling up on a rug and enjoying a biscuit as much as the next dog, he is certainly no ordinary dog. Trained by Milton Keynes based organisation Medical Detection Dogs, he can sniff ...
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The smartest part of our brain - 14.09.30
Which part of our brain helped us become the social ...
Which part of our brain helped us become the social and (for the most part) intelligent creatures we are today?...
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The price of alcohol - 14.09.30
Thousands die due to alcohol consumption each year, did raising ...
Thousands die due to alcohol consumption each year, did raising the price of alcohol in the UK reduce these costs? ...
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eLife Episode 14: Cost of corruption, and Ebola - 14.09.30
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about the spread of the Ebola virus, the financial costs of research misconduct, aging in yeast, grooming in flies, and symbiosis between bacteria and fungal cells....
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Your nose knows death is imminent - 14.09.29
Until recently when technology took over, a coal miner's best ...
Until recently when technology took over, a coal miner's best friend was a caged canary that would warn of a build-up of life-threatening gases. Now US scientists are saying that the sense of smell is the coalmine canary of human health, with people ...
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Common cold and asthma - 14.09.29
During an asthma attack, inflammation in the airways leads to ...
During an asthma attack, inflammation in the airways leads to breathlessness, and severe cases can end up with sufferers being hospitalised or even dying. One culprit that can make asthma worse is the virus that causes the common cold, known as rh...
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How dinosaur arms turned into bird wings - 14.09.29
You can forget Jurassic Park because actually dinosaurs are all ...
You can forget Jurassic Park because actually dinosaurs are all around us! And I'm not joking because the fact is that when you see a chirping bird, you're actually looking at a modern dinosaur. Evidence has been growing for some time that our feathe...
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New solar cells - 14.09.29
Hydrogen is regarded as an excellent candidate future fuel on ...
Hydrogen is regarded as an excellent candidate future fuel on the grounds that it is relatively easy to store and it burns cleanly to produce only heat and water. But present methods of production involve fossil fuels and are energy intensive, offset...
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Do baby fish speak? - 14.09.28
We've all heard that whales and dolphins have a highly ...
We've all heard that whales and dolphins have a highly developed way of making sounds to communicate with each. However when it come to ordinary fish you'd have thought they're pretty silent things. But you'd be wrong. Marine biologist Erica Staaterm...
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Best place for cardiac arrest - 14.09.26
A cardiac arrest is when a person's heart stops beating ...
A cardiac arrest is when a person's heart stops beating and they collapse. It affects 30,000 people every year in the UK. The majority of these occur outside the hospital setting and they're frequently fatal. But how should they be managed - by at...
