Naked Scientists Special Editions
Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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The Science of the Working Lunch - 13.08.02
We are often encouraged to relax during our lunch break, ...
We are often encouraged to relax during our lunch break, but research suggests that this can do interesting things to our minds....
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What Makes Plumes on Enceladus - Matt Hedman - 13.08.02
Enceladus, the tiny Saturnian satellite, regularly issues jets of salty ...
Enceladus, the tiny Saturnian satellite, regularly issues jets of salty water from its south pole that reaches kilometres in height above the moon's surface. But what drives this process? Gravitational tidal forces caused by an eccentric orbit, it se...
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Exercise away the risk of stroke? - 13.07.30
Scientists at the University of South Australia have shown that ...
Scientists at the University of South Australia have shown that regular exercise can dramatically reduce your risk of having a stroke in later life. Priya Crosby spoke to first author on the paper, Dr. Michelle McDonnell to find out more....
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Cycle Safety - 13.07.30
How can you make sure you are safe when you ...
How can you make sure you are safe when you cycle? It might be more difficult that you think to ensure cars spot you......
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Brain scans to improve autism diagnosis - 13.07.19
Last week, a group at the University of California, Davis, ...
Last week, a group at the University of California, Davis, released a paper which highlights the potential for the use of MRI brain scans in the diagnosis of autism in children. Priya Crosby spoke to first author of the paper, Mark Shen, to find out ...
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elife Episode 2: Plants keep Thyme, cancer drug resistance and clear corneas - 13.07.16
How plants do molecular mathematics to thyme their starch consumption, ...
How plants do molecular mathematics to thyme their starch consumption, how cancers evolve resistance to chemotherapy and how to combat it, how the retina and cornea keep themselves clear of blood vessels, watching T cell receptors in real...
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Giant Water Lily - 13.07.14
The Cambridge Botanic Gardens play host to a giant water ...
The Cambridge Botanic Gardens play host to a giant water lily, with leaves a small child can stand on, and a flower that undergos an overnight sex change. Ginny Smith went to talk to Alex Summers about this incredible plant....
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National Astronomy Meeting: Thursday - 13.07.04
Dark matter has long been needed by cosmologists to explain ...
Dark matter has long been needed by cosmologists to explain how structures like galaxies remain so strongly bound together. Catherine Peymans from the University of Edinburgh tells me about the latest models of dark matter, meanwhile Benoit Famaey an...
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The Enigma Machine - 13.07.03
Last week marked the 101st birthday of the code-breaker and ...
Last week marked the 101st birthday of the code-breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing, so Ginny Smith met up with James Grime, from the Enigma Project, to find out more about the German code machine that Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Pa...
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National Astronomy Meeting: Wednesday - 13.07.03
What will the last remaining lifeforms on the Earth look ...
What will the last remaining lifeforms on the Earth look like as the Sun swells to become a red giant star? And why might future robotic explorers of the Moon find themselves engulfed in dust? Both of these questions were discussed at the National As...
