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Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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GM Salmonella shrinks cancers - 15.04.21
Salmonella bacteria can be modified to make a safe anti-cancer ...
Salmonella bacteria can be modified to make a safe anti-cancer treatment, scientists have shown....
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Dark matter may not be completely 'dark' - 15.04.20
Druham Universtiy's Richard Massey takes Chris Smith to a galaxy ...
Druham Universtiy's Richard Massey takes Chris Smith to a galaxy far, far away; or, more accurately, several galaxies over, which also happen to have just collided with each other, providing in the process new insights into one of the Universe's bigg...
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eLife episode 19: Herpes vaccine, and flies with brain damage - 15.04.17
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about herpes, breweries, model organisms, social interactions in rats and traumatic brain injuries in flies....
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How the Moon was Made - 15.04.14
How the Earth came by its Moon has always been ...
How the Earth came by its Moon has always been something of a mystery: Scientists had theorised that a Mars-sized planet, called Theia, crashed into Earth and that the moon formed from the debris. But, analysis of the rock chemistry from the lunar s...
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Evidence of dinosaur cannibalism - 15.04.13
Evidence has been revealed that a type of dinosaur fell ...
Evidence has been revealed that a type of dinosaur fell victim to occasional cannibalism. Daspletosaurus was a member of the tyrannosaurs group, and relative of the famous T. rex. A skull was found to have scratches matching the teeth of a predator a...
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Yeast: Rising from the bread - 15.04.02
A favourite Easter tradition are hot cross buns, but there's ...
A favourite Easter tradition are hot cross buns, but there's one particular ingredient which no bread can do without: yeast. What is about this strange powdery ingredient that makes it so useful? Philip Garsed took some freshly baked hot cross buns ...
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Listening to the bat highway code - 15.03.26
If you've ever seen huge flocks of birds or a ...
If you've ever seen huge flocks of birds or a shoal of fish, you might have wondered how they are all able to move together without ever colliding. Now scientists at the University of Bristol believe they have been able to explain how flocks of b...
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How light can transmit WiFi - 15.03.15
Anyone who has struggled with a lousy WiFi connection in ...
Anyone who has struggled with a lousy WiFi connection in a busy public space knows only too well that there are limits to how much data can be beamed over the airwaves like this. Now scientists have come up with a new technology that uses the room li...
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When humans made their mark on the world - 15.03.15
Geologists like to divide up history into epochs, or eras, ...
Geologists like to divide up history into epochs, or eras, separated by events that leave an indelible mark in the geological record of the earth - for example, the meteorite strike that finished off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, whose impact i...
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Adapting to Arsenic - 15.03.09
In a remote area in the Andes mountain there exist ...
In a remote area in the Andes mountain there exist perilously high levels of arsenic: one of the most toxic substances known to man. But people have been living there for thousands of years, and it has now been discovered that this population has ad...
