Naked Scientists Special Editions
Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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The Science of Making Colour - 14.06.23
The latest digital imaging techniques are literally throwing new light ...
The latest digital imaging techniques are literally throwing new light on the ingenious variety of materials that have been used over the centuries to create artists' paint pigments. A new exhibition at the National Gallery in London is looking a...
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The Future of Flooding in Britain - 14.06.21
Six months after some of the worst flooding witnessed in ...
Six months after some of the worst flooding witnessed in Britain, Professor David Dermeritt from Kings College London explains to Graihagh Jackson how these deluges have changed Britain's policies on how we manage rivers, risks and rising water level...
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Mountaintop blasted to build largest telescope - 14.06.20
This week, 3000 metres up a Chilean mountain, scientists pressed ...
This week, 3000 metres up a Chilean mountain, scientists pressed the button to blow up half a million tonnes of rock. The mountain's called Cerro Armazones and the reason it was being blown up was to create the site for what will become the world's b...
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Renewable Bioplastics - 14.06.19
Bacteria that can degrade the woody material in plant waste ...
Bacteria that can degrade the woody material in plant waste and turn it into an oil-free material for plastics manufacture have been developed by scientists at Warwick University in Britain. Professor Tim Bugg told Chris more... ...
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eLife Episode 12: Why we don't (often) bite our tongues - 14.06.10
In this episode of the eLife podcast, the neuroscience of ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast, the neuroscience of chewing, African sleeping sickness, skin cancer, and an ancient protein complex called TSET. eLife editor-in-chief Randy Schekman also shares his thoughts on scientific publishing......
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One-two punch for evolution - 14.06.09
There's a new theory this week claiming that men's faces ...
There's a new theory this week claiming that men's faces evolved to take punches. It comes from researchers at the University of Utah and goes against a previous theory that craniofacial evolution was driven by a diet of nuts, seeds and vegetables. ...
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Massive Super-Earth - 14.06.07
Has the likelihood of alien life existing just become a ...
Has the likelihood of alien life existing just become a lot more likely? Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics announced this week that they have found what's being dubbed the "Godzilla of Earths" - it's a rocky planet orbiti...
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Seabirds Chase Ships for Food - 14.06.06
Gannets are using fishing boats as fast-food outlets, chasing them ...
Gannets are using fishing boats as fast-food outlets, chasing them for miles over the ocean. Thomas Bodey explains to Chris Smith how GPS tracking on both the birds and ships shows that the gannets can tell trawlers from yachts. But there might be a ...
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Does Nicolas Cage cause drownings? - 14.06.05
Does Nicolas Cage cause people to drown in swimming pools? ...
Does Nicolas Cage cause people to drown in swimming pools? Does margarine consumption lead to divorce? Tyler Vigen looked at relations between seemingly unrelated statistics to highlight how correlation can be misleading. ...
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eLife Episode 11: Pain, gene therapy, and regenerating worms - 14.04.30
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about neuropathic pain, gene therapy, insulin production, ageing in worms, and how flatworms grow new body parts....
