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Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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British Science Festival 2013: Ugly Animal Preservation Society - 13.09.13
This week after public vote, the Blobfish was announced to ...
This week after public vote, the Blobfish was announced to be the world's ugliest animal. The poll was run by Ugly Animal Preservation Society, a group of comedians and scientists who are part of a comedy show aiming to champion some of nature's more...
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British Science Festival 2013: Sugata Mitra's School in the Cloud - 13.09.12
Sugata Mitra's 'Hole in the Wall' experiments in a New ...
Sugata Mitra's 'Hole in the Wall' experiments in a New Delhi slum showed how easily children can learn using the internet, with no adult supervision or guidance. He terms this Minimally Invasive Education, and has since repeated the experiment in man...
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Diabetes Management - On your phone! - 13.09.12
Is real-time blood sugar monitoring on your phone a pipe ...
Is real-time blood sugar monitoring on your phone a pipe dream? Not according to Professor Mike Trenell at Newcastle University. Matt Burnett finds out about the diabetic athletes testing a new diabetes monitoring system on a 2100km bicycle tour from...
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British Science Festival 2013: Healthy Life Simulation - 13.09.11
The population of the modern world is ageing. However, not ...
The population of the modern world is ageing. However, not everyone's quality of ageing is equal and simple factors, such as where we live, can have a major impact on how healthy we are in to old age. Peter Gore, Professor of Practice for Ageing and ...
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Autism and dancing - 13.09.11
Dancing is a complicated skill, and learning a new routine ...
Dancing is a complicated skill, and learning a new routine changes the brain. Ginny Smith caught up with Antonia Hamilton and Emily Cross at the British Science Festival to find out more about their research, and how it might be shedding light on the...
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British Science Festival 2013: Cosmic Rays and Technology - 13.09.10
Physicist Chris Frost explains, at the British Science Festival 2013, ...
Physicist Chris Frost explains, at the British Science Festival 2013, how cosmic rays disrupt the everyday technologies we rely on, as he outlines for Naked Scientist Priya Crosby......
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British Science Festival 2013: Ceri Brenner, Lasers - 13.09.10
Rutherford Appleton Central Laser Facility scientist Dr Ceri Brenner enlightens ...
Rutherford Appleton Central Laser Facility scientist Dr Ceri Brenner enlightens Ginny Smith about the world of lasers at the British Science Festival, 2013....
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eLife Episode 3: Now hear this! - 13.08.16
The cocktail party effect and how the brain decides which ...
The cocktail party effect and how the brain decides which sounds to attend to, genes dismissed as dead relics turn out to play significant roles in inflammation, iPS cells reproduce degenerative retinal disease, the genetic responses to flu jabs, and...
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The Science of Spin Bowling - 13.08.09
Today marks the first day of the fourth test in ...
Today marks the first day of the fourth test in the Ashes and while England have already retained the urn, they're hoping that their spin bowlers, including the likes of Monty Panesar can help secure a series win. Dominic Ford wanted to find out t...
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Diamond Lasers - Just a James Bond fantasy? - 13.08.09
Diamonds are the new best friends of laser scientists. A ...
Diamonds are the new best friends of laser scientists. A new world of lasers is now being created through research which is harnessing the exceptional qualities of diamonds. It will open up new possibilities in the way that lasers can be used in a...
