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Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast — 991 episodes · page 1 of 10
What does it take to power an autonomous vehicle?
Sickle cell defeated malaria and opened up pastures new
Malaria in Africa
Driven to End Malaria: World Malaria Day 2026
Moths hear plants, and what fingerprints do for touch
Nocebos, and why the eyes of some species stay shut at birth
Aspirin vs Clopidogrel: The blood thinner battle
Public Success, Private Grief: remembering Peter Cowley
Keeping humans healthy in orbit
Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes
Synthetic sustainable spuds
Scientists say they've bent spacetime
Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth
Storing data with "molecular firecrackers"
Brain-invading bacterium is making fruit flies extra frisky
Speedy, soft robot powered by air alone
Frog toxicity, and what a year's schooling does to the brain
Hollywood helps brain scientists probe thoughts
Evolving flu, and the desert decomposition conundrum
Cancer mood control, and birth products blocking pain
Vampire bacteria, "hangry" males, and ants using moonlight
Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia
The proteins responsible for feeling cold revealed...
Apes reveal language origins, and being dyslexic in science
Bees can't taste pesticides, and how albatrosses get aloft
Surviving a fusion bomb
Does our language affect our decision making?
Microbial life deep underground
How the pandemic affected child development
New Ultrasound Technique for Breast Imaging
Search and rescue rats
TV is influencing careers
FIFA Fall Out with EA
Did the lockdown make us more creative?
Dog and Dingo DNA sequences
Coffee without the coffee beans
Recreating smells from the past
A new method for recycling plastics
Data storage in DNA
Solving puzzles to help cancer research
Pig grunts indicate their emotions
Indoor pollution from cleaning
The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
Creating Oxygen on the Moon
Roman faeces housing fossilised parasites
Blood clot tests with smartphones
Shades of Blue Stop a Mosquito Biting You
Magnetic Fields Guide Migratory Birds
Car Dependence in Greenfield Housing
Why don't plants freeze to death in Winter?
Black hole seen forming new stars
Trees for the Jubilee
Game of Life still revealing secrets
Organising our memories
Automating Blood Smears
Making new year's resolutions SMART
Ichthyosaur found in Rutland
The Reforestation Re-evaluation
Sleep and Alzheimer's
Do Asteroids Pose a Real Threat?
Listening vs hearing
Language and the Brain
What is the impact of a black hole?
IVF embryos are more successful than expected
Making antibiotics more effective
Omicron update: what's in store for Australia
The recent evolution of human beings
100 years of insulin
Cooling down rapidly warming cities
Tree growth extended in urban jungles
The science of hugs
Sleep schedules & healthier hearts
Omicron, variant of concern. What do we know?
Whales eat (and poop) more than we thought
NASA's planetary defence test
Covid Surges in Europe
Why does Covid-19 vaccine protection wane?
Fusion experiment yields new record energy
Dogs can pick out words from speech
Facebook's Metaverse
What does oxytocin sound like?
Antibiotics upgraded to tackle superbugs
Humans navigate inefficiently in cities
Hydrogen electrolyser wins Earthshot Prize
COVID-19 nanotube-based sensor
How Alzheimer's Disease Unfolds
Potential health benefits of winter swimming
E-Waste Day: what to do with old electronics?
HeLa cells: do you own your own body parts?
New painkiller: local and long-lasting relief
Vaccines passports in England shown the door
Self-assembling filter can remove fluoride
Moral outrage on Twitter is contagious
bit.bio: a new source of human cells
Feeding birds could be causing harm
Schools Causing Covid Surges
Long COVID in children: what we know so far
Water vapour found on Ganymede
What can NZ do about Delta?
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in dogs