Naked Scientists Special Editions
Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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Could a brain scan predict your future? - 15.01.12
Could a brain scan predict your weight, your school grades ...
Could a brain scan predict your weight, your school grades and your happiness levels two years down the line?...
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Cartoons are deadly (for lead roles) - 14.12.24
Whether it's an outing to the cinema or gathered in ...
Whether it's an outing to the cinema or gathered in the living room, films are a great way to spend time as a family at Christmas. If children are involved, the choice of title will often be made with them in mind. Reservoir Dogs might be shelved in ...
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eLife Episode 16: Synthetic cells, antivirals and sex pheromones - 14.12.23
n this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about ...
n this episode of the eLife podcast we hear about reproducibility, drug resistance, cells without walls, gene transfer, interspecies signalling, and stem cells. ...
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Has Curiosity found life on Mars? - 14.12.20
Last week scientists attending the American Geophysical Union meeting in ...
Last week scientists attending the American Geophysical Union meeting in California unveiled measurements made on Mars by the Curisoity rover, which has been exploring the red planet for the last 2 years. What Curiosity has uncovered are organic mole...
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Feeling old shortens your life - 14.12.19
People often talk about feeling their age, but how old ...
People often talk about feeling their age, but how old you say you feel is strongly linked to your life expectancy. A new study at UCL in London has shown that people who feel their age, or feel even older than their real chronological are almost 40%...
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Machine makes people more empathic - 14.12.19
There's the old saying that if you want to understand ...
There's the old saying that if you want to understand someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. But what if you could walk in their actual body? Thanks to virtual reality headsets, this is now - at least virtually - possible. And by fooling peo...
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Foraging for Fossils - 14.12.15
How do we know about the ancient animals that used ...
How do we know about the ancient animals that used to roam the Earth? If all life got its start in the sea, then why do most animals now live on land? Sara Sjosten went behind the scenes at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Science with Sarah Finney to...
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reCAPTCHA with Luis von Ahn - 14.11.30
Luis von Ahn invented CAPTCHA - the system that uses ...
Luis von Ahn invented CAPTCHA - the system that uses a picture of a word to determine whether you are a human or a computer. But when von Ahn realised just how much time was being wasted by filling in CAPTCHAs, he wondered whether that man-power coul...
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The science behind fasting - 14.11.27
What's the science behind the so-called 5:2 or intermittent fasting ...
What's the science behind the so-called 5:2 or intermittent fasting diet? ...
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Does your dog understand you? - 14.11.27
Does your dog pay attention to what you say? Thinking ...
Does your dog pay attention to what you say? Thinking back to the last time it rolled in something stinky, or ran off with your socks, you may not be convinced. But new research from the University of Sussex shows that man's best friend is at least l...
