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Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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Differences between male and female brains - 15.02.06
Your brain is more complex and powerful than the world's ...
Your brain is more complex and powerful than the world's biggest supercomputer, built while you're a baby growing in the womb from the recipes encoded in your genes. But how do your growing brain cells know which genes to use? The answer comes from e...
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Mitochondrial Diseases: 3 Parent Embryos - 15.02.04
What are so-called "3 parent embryos", and what are the ...
What are so-called "3 parent embryos", and what are the arguments for allowing it? Hannah Critchlow discussed the issues with MP Julian Huppert, who supported the recent motion to permit the process in the House of Commons......
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How close are we to the next mass extinction? - 15.02.02
Around 250 million years ago our world was a very ...
Around 250 million years ago our world was a very different place. Rather than the different continents we know today, there was only one giant land mass - Pangea - covered with plants and animals. But then something went horribly wrong. Over a few m...
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Chicks can count too! - 15.02.02
Humans do it. Primates do it. And now it's been ...
Humans do it. Primates do it. And now it's been found out that birds can also do it - 3 day old chickens have been shown to order numbers low to high, from left to right - just like on a ruler! The findings, published in Science, could indicate that ...
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Nano-Scale Quill Pen - 15.01.27
Quill pens might be about to make a comeback - ...
Quill pens might be about to make a comeback - but not in a stationers! Because researchers have developed a nano-scale ink pen that can be used to control the shapes of polymers that can be used to make superfast computers. Polymers are are giant ch...
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Super-slippery, water repellent surfaces - 15.01.24
A new breed of super metals, that are extremely water ...
A new breed of super metals, that are extremely water repellent have been created. Their potential applications range from rust and frost free aircraft to self-cleaning toilets. Danielle Blackwell spoke to Prof. Chunlei Guo from the University of Roc...
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Sea turtle sat nav - 15.01.17
Sea turtles follow unique magnetic signatures to return to their ...
Sea turtles follow unique magnetic signatures to return to their home beaches to lay their eggs....
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Geese fly over the Himalayas like a roller coaster - 15.01.16
Bar-headed geese reach altitudes of several thousand meters in their ...
Bar-headed geese reach altitudes of several thousand meters in their annual migration across the world's highest mountain range. A new study shows that they have a peculiar way to save energy on this long journey, as Khalil Thirlaway finds out from D...
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Crashing Cars - 15.01.16
Over 3000 people are killed on the world's roads every ...
Over 3000 people are killed on the world's roads every day with further 20-50 million people left injured or disabled. And whilst the number of serious injuries have come down - one type of injury -damage to the spinal cord - has remained stubbornly ...
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Can cycling keep you younger? - 15.01.13
A common New year's resolution is to hit the gym ...
A common New year's resolution is to hit the gym and get fit. But while most people might give up and return to the comfort of the sofa by February, research suggests that being physically active for your whole life has big health benefits. But can i...
