Naked Scientists Special Editions
Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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eLife episode 18: TB, and a Handshake - 15.03.09
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about TB, HIV, social behaviour in ants, genetics in baboons and a surprising twist to the handshake....
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Sophie the Stegosaurus - 15.03.07
Dr Kat Arney meets Sophie the Stegosaurus, and Natural History ...
Dr Kat Arney meets Sophie the Stegosaurus, and Natural History Museum researcher Charlotte Brassey....
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What can we learn from NASA's Dawn probe? - 15.03.06
After a seven and a half year journey, and with ...
After a seven and a half year journey, and with a price tag just shy of half a billion Dollars, NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally has the asteroid Ceres in its sights. Ceres is a massive asteroid which sits among a clutch of much smaller boulders, pebbl...
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FameLab: the snapping shrimp - 15.02.25
FameLab is a competition where scientists battle it out to ...
FameLab is a competition where scientists battle it out to be the best at giving engaging short talks on their favourite areas of research. Six Cambridge-based finalists have been chosen by a panel of judges and we're hearing from a selection of them...
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Holes give diamonds their colour - 15.02.22
Using a new super powerful electron microscope, scientists have discovered ...
Using a new super powerful electron microscope, scientists have discovered tiny holes are responsible for giving brown diamonds their colour. ...
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Space Worms - 15.02.15
Worms are about to help scientists to boldly go where ...
Worms are about to help scientists to boldly go where no researcher has been before, by venturing into space to help us to understand how changes in gravity might affect our DNA. Although scientists don't think that the physical genetic letters of DN...
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2015.02.13 - Detecting dark matter - 15.02.13
It makes up most of the stuff in our universe, ...
It makes up most of the stuff in our universe, but we can't see it or weigh it - but we know it has to be there. This elusive substance is dark matter, and according to a new paper in the journal Nature Physics this week, it's all around us in our ow...
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Positive thinking improves your health - 15.02.07
Has anyone ever told you to lose a few pounds? ...
Has anyone ever told you to lose a few pounds? Get a bit more active? Work harder in school? We can sometimes become a bit defensive when given this type of advice even if we know it's probably the right thing to do. Now scientists have revealed how ...
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eLife episode 17: Stress, fertility and remote-controlled sperm - 15.02.06
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
In this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about controlling sperm by optogenetics, hibernation, body clocks, enzyme structure, and a way to overcome stress-induced infertility....
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From venom to medicine - 15.02.06
A novel approach to detecting interactions between scorpion venom and ...
A novel approach to detecting interactions between scorpion venom and its target molecule could aid in the discovery of new drugs for treatment of a wide range of nerve disorders....
