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Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast — 617 episodes
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
The UK and Freedom Day: What The Numbers Say
New malaria drug cures with one dose
Increasing likelihood of extreme heatwaves
Hygiene doesn't harm immune development
Rivers don't always recover after drought
'Dragon Man' skull: our closest relative?
T-rex teens fill mid-size predator gap
Sharks use Earth's magnetic field as a map
Pesticide antidote might help struggling bees
Covid viruses, vaccines and variants
Mouse plague in Australia
Sperm and squid in space
Cells reprogrammed to make synthetic polymers
Motherless gorillas and how hummingbirds hum
New process may transform mining
Vodka from Chernobyl on its way to UK
Loan applications rejected more around midday
Camera based on shrimp eye sees cancer cells
SciHub: are they stealing your data?
Plants affected by noise pollution
Biological target for future anorexia drugs
Ancient DNA extracted from cave dirt
New treatment for paracetamol overdose
Masks on the beach and in beer gardens? C'mon...
Genetics behind why rabbits hop
Spinosaurus: was it a giant, toothy heron?
The world of fungi inside seed banks
Eagle killer identified
Industrial yeast impairs gut wound healing
Wildfire smoke detected in stratosphere
Cone snails seduce prey with pheromones
Modelling concussion with eggs
Diabetes drug trialled to treat obesity
Bile ducts grown in lab can repair livers
COVID: seeking herd immunity by vaccination
Covid-19 latest and the flu surge in waiting
Treating osteoarthritis with antidepressants
An ancient freshwater Arctic ocean
Traffic noise makes crickets pick bad mates
Australia takes on Google
Millipedes disrupting trains
Growing roots in compacted soil
Soothing surgical patients
COVID Vaccines: the EU debacle
Cats, catnip, and curious chemicals
Knitting: a short history
Flashy dinosaur fossil described
COVID-19: can the new variant defeat vaccines
Winter traditions: scientifically speaking
Universal Flu Vaccine
Inhaled vaccines cross from lungs to blood
Dreaming during the coronavirus pandemic
AstraZeneca's Covid Vaccine
Alzheimer's: early detection via AI
Octopuses taste with their tentacles
Obesity: modelling the effects of TV ads
Carlos Rodriguez: Founder of eSports team G2
Drug discovery via sea squirt
Brain cells making choices: pizza, or pasta?
Smelling history: from AI to chemistry
Pfizer vaccine: an immunologist explains
MS vaccine using your own brain cells
Pfizer announce Covid-19 vaccine
COVID: The Swedish Strategy
HFpEF: heart failure type is underserved
UK Back in Lockdown
Covid control and the economy
Ten equations that rule the world
Daylight Saving Time: a history
Plastic recycling: the one pot method
Glitter litter: the dark side of dazzle
How not to get fooled by graphs
Stop littering in space!
Protected land: UK facing biodiversity crisis
Bee microbiome smells tell nestmates apart
Alien life: a zoologist's guide
Jim Gazzard: adapting teaching to Covid-19
UK Covid-19 second wave
Cambridge and Covid: a new academic year
The many ends of the universe
Magical manipulation... of animals?
Gene editing to reverse myotonic dystrophy
When will we get a Covid-19 vaccine?
Bradykinin and Covid-19: what's the link?
Dream analysis with AI
Why is Death Valley so hot?
Smartphones that can tell if you're drunk
Genetic risk for PTSD
Covid-19 update: spread, tests and vaccines
Goosebumps cause hair growth
Big carnivores disappear from panda reserves
Sperm Movement: Swim 'N' Roll
ITER - The build begins
Covid outbreaks: local lockdowns
Red light restores vision in aged eyes
Artificial liver progress
Painted fruit and veg reveal plant origins
Deafness gene identified
Covid: Are we facing a second wave?
Is COVID-19 causing a global food crisis?
Mining for metals in the deep sea
Chatty chimps: we hear you!
Baby planet: image shows signs of formation
Do eggs prefer one sperm over another?
Mini human livers transplanted into rats
COVID-19 six months in: are we managing it?
Storks: a cultural history
Covid: conspiracies, chloroquine and immunity
Far-UVC light to kill the coronavirus
8000 coronavirus cases a day in the UK
Goats get the point
Care homes: how badly has COVID-19 hit?
Vaccines, antibodies and Covid19 in Sweden
Covid-19 news update
Covid-19: Here to stay?
Are ring-tailed lemurs sniffing out a date?
Cancer gene vital for heart regeneration
Catching coronavirus twice: fact or fiction?
Cambridge University and Covid: Stephen Toope
Phthalate linked to premature births
Grow your own veg: a novice's guide
Covid-19: Vaccines and facemasks
Science Stand Up: Supernovae and Forks
Social distancing: is 2 metres enough?
Covid-19: Can you catch it again?
Can I catch coronavirus from my shopping?
Smart birds flourish in cities
Coronavirus: do facemasks help or hinder?
Is space lettuce good for you?
COVID-19: Will lock-down work?
Seagulls prefer food touched by humans
The World's Wasted Wastewater Potential
Covid-19: is the UK's reaction the right one?
Covid-19: What's happening?
Cannabis and False Memories
Improving zoos
Pop the question with a lump of coal?
Wasp nests help date ancient aboriginal art
Coronavirus outbreak: where do we stand?
Coronavirus: What is happening?
Should kids run a mile a day?
Self-cleaning surfaces
Wuhan City coronavirus: an update
Towards an HIV cure
Doug Cockle: The voice of The Witcher
Motor neuron disease: a link to cholesterol
Smokers: less dependent, less likely to quit
CO2-consuming bacteria
Large planet orbiting a white dwarf
The voice of Ash from Pokemon!
The Holly and the Ivy: why go evergreen?
Why are Christmas trees a thing?
AI to Detect Tuberculosis
How measles suppresses immunity for years
Deprivation and male depression
Avalanche survivor: Lawrence's story
Climate change: what does net zero look like?
Why planting trees isn't always a good idea
Lakes, carbon and microbes: a hidden world
Food micronutrient-protecting capsules
Staphylococcus aureus biofilm vaccine
Bird societies
Voyager 2: leaving the Solar System
Oil wastewater makes earthquakes stronger
Glass recognises numbers just by looking
Brain changes in obese children
Old books reveal how happy we once were
Gene boost makes cancer more visible
Robots in blood vessels
Cooling that comes with a twist
Prostheses that can restore lost sensation
Are phone masts going to get larger?
Antimicrobial resistance and future plastics
Stronger earthquakes from oilfield wastewater
The science behind heatwaves
Decoding the Minimum Genome
The world's biggest patch of seaweed
The nervous systems of worms
Oumuamua NOT Alien Technology
Extremely Fast: The Future of Electric Racing
Making crops more light-sensitive
Boaty McBoatface and the Antarctic mystery
Smarter, safer robots
Fish: a small world after all
Asthma: mapping the human lung
Cracking the secret of Antarctic ice holes
Pitch perception - a special skill?
Recyclable crisp packets using nanotechnology
Higher fatal flu risk for CRISPR twins
How to mend a broken heart
An antibiotic made from metal
Bacteria not slowed by obstacles
Sensing air pollution
Hiroshima buildings found in beach sand
Reducing harassment online
Mystery of the miniature T-Rex
Biodegradable bags might not biodegrade
Caster Semenya and testosterone limits
DNA unveils origins of farming in Britain
Premature labour: understanding the mechanics
AI predicting battery performance
EHT sheds light on M87 black hole
Renewable energy beats carbon capture technology
A new look at an old star
Exotic particle discovery from LHC
Low temperature catalysts reduce emissions
Metamaterials solve equations
Precision-injecting smart needle
Creating cannabis chemicals in yeast
Climate impact of lab-grown meat
How bacteria physically resist antibiotics
Grasses are genetic thieves
Possible new treatment for asthma
Brain centre for laughter
Ancient javelins
Dieting mosquitoes prevent disease
Hundreds of genes control the body clock
Managing Cardiomyopathy
Improving carbon capture
Martian rock discovery surprises scientists
Rocking adults to sleep
Muscles really do have "memory"
Whats inside your E-cigarette?
Rare Pigment Fossilised in Teeth
Opioid overdose detection via app
Sleep quality and Alzheimers disease
Podcasts: Chris Smith talks to Lawrence Jones
Testing for Tuberculosis
How did early life evolve?
Where is Earth's Freshwater Going?
Mice with Motorneurone Disease
My whiskers! Faster stroke recovery in mice
The corals that matter most on the Great Barrier Reef
Do people spread disease?
How are our lives are mapped on our brains?
Getting high from marathon running
Extinct animal colours revealed
Concussion and the Rugby World Cup
Fidgeting could prolong your life
A cooling layer for solar cells
Extremely Large Telescope
3D-printing body parts
Paralysed man walks again
A new insight into parasites
Good beetle parents die younger
Does stress affect elephant fertility?
Lovey-dovey finches
Age related diseases associated with 'biological age'
Dusty farms protect children from allergies
Green Highways
Keeping clocks accurate
Hidden memories explained
Dogs evolved with climate change not prey
Premature birth affects personality
GCSE success: it's in your genes
A pill on a string!
Can de-worming really improve school attendance?
Music tastes linked with brain type
Rocket-powered Punting
Sugary drinks increase diabetes risk by 20%
Growing Human Hearts
Volcanoes may have ended the Roman Empire
Benefitting medically from marijuana
Climate change is bad news for bees
Why do our brains age?
Predicting depression and anxiety
RoboCabs: the key to curbing emissions?
Men and women may feel pain differently
What do fish and aircraft have in common?
Just give me a second...
PPI's Increase Heart Attack Risk
Self-unrolling Brain Implant
75 million year-old Dinosaur Cells found
Hawkmoths Shadowy Existence Uncovered
Exploring Saturn's Newest Ring
Ending Earthquakes With Water
Coffee staves off depression
Sequencing Schizophrenia
Choose Your Treatment Wisely
Winter Immune Blues
A Study in Scarlet
Baboon Buddies
Selective Hearing
Cells Turn Inside-Out
Facebook leads to biased views
Males donate competitively
Modern lifestyles reduce gut bug diversity
How do we hear time within sounds?
GM Salmonella shrinks cancers
Dark matter may not be completely 'dark'
How the Moon was Made
Evidence of dinosaur cannibalism
Yeast: Rising from the bread
Listening to the bat highway code
When humans made their mark on the world
How light can transmit WiFi
Adapting to Arsenic
Sophie the Stegosaurus
What can we learn from NASA's Dawn probe?
FameLab: the snapping shrimp
Holes give diamonds their colour
Space Worms
Detecting dark matter
Positive thinking improves your health
Differences between male and female brains
From venom to medicine
Mitochondrial Diseases: 3 Parent Embryos
Chicks can count too!
How close are we to the next mass extinction?
Nano-Scale Quill Pen
Super-slippery, water repellent surfaces
Sea turtle sat nav
Crashing Cars
Geese fly over the Himalayas like a roller coaster
Can cycling keep you younger?
Could a brain scan predict your future?
Cartoons are deadly (for lead roles)
Has Curiosity found life on Mars?
Machine makes people more empathic
Feeling old shortens your life
Foraging for Fossils
reCAPTCHA with Luis von Ahn
Does your dog understand you?
The science behind fasting
The fight against Ebola
Shift Work Shafts Brains
How wildcats became kitty cats
Body Clocks
Religion and nature
Healthy-Looking Leaders
Women in Science
Imaging the Genome
Foreign species invading the UK
Detection dogs
The price of alcohol
The smartest part of our brain
Your nose knows death is imminent
New solar cells
How dinosaur arms turned into bird wings
Common cold and asthma
Do baby fish speak?
Best place for cardiac arrest
Strategic decision making revealed
Worrying world population
Ant-sized radios
Modifying mice memories
Sex and back pain
Mental health support online
EPSRC's Rising Stars
Bereavement suppresses the Immune System
Parkinson's 'pocket-doctor'
Unlocking Stonehenge's secrets
Sudden death in athletes
Your Immune system vs Cancer
Colour changing cuttlefish
The problem with passports
Star dust
Our leaky ancestor
How to make energy from oil-eating microbes
In Conversation with Martyn Poliakoff
Will reading as a child make you a smarter adult?
Do you own a jealous dog?
Is there a genetic link to schizophrenia?
How windfarms affect seals?
The true cost of farming?
Gut bacteria seek out injuries
Obesity affects learning
People prefer shocks to thoughts!
The Summer Science Exhibition 2014
'Neonics' linked to honeybee decline
Can we use faces as passwords?
Do we need another whooping cough vaccine?
Why stress causes heart attacks
Cheaper Solar Panels
UK government bans 'Qat'
Mobile Microbiomes
Why Salamanders can't get legless
The Science of Making Colour
The Future of Flooding in Britain
Mountaintop blasted to build largest telescope
Renewable Bioplastics
One-two punch for evolution
Massive Super-Earth
Seabirds Chase Ships for Food
Does Nicolas Cage cause drownings?
The Battle of the Sexes
Selecting Species to Save
The Naked Mole Rat
David Willetts Speech to the AAAS
Packing Up a Museum
Can we eradicate Polio?
Naked Scientists Guide to Genetics
#genes2shape: Tubby - from obesity to drought tolerance
#genes2shape: Asymmetry... in snails
Afghanistan on the brain
A weather forecast, for the dinosaurs
Bodyguard drugs and TB
Packing plants with eco energy
How important are the microorganisms all around us?
Diagnosing Emerging Disorders
Stopping HIV Spread
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Conservation
Tackling the tangles in Alzheimer's Disease
2013.09.17 - British Science Festival 2013: Ancient Parasites Treat Allergies
British Science Festival 2013: Victorian Science
British Science Festival 2013: Ugly Animal Preservation Society
Diabetes Management - On your phone!
British Science Festival 2013: Sugata Mitra's School in the Cloud
Autism and dancing
British Science Festival 2013: Healthy Life Simulation
Self-Healing Concrete
British Science Festival 2013: Ceri Brenner, Lasers
British Science Festival 2013: Cosmic Rays and Technology
Diamond Lasers - Just a James Bond fantasy?
The Science of Spin Bowling
The Science of the Working Lunch
What Makes Plumes on Enceladus - Matt Hedman
Cycle Safety
Exercise away the risk of stroke?
Brain scans to improve autism diagnosis
Giant Water Lily
National Astronomy Meeting: Thursday
National Astronomy Meeting: Wednesday
The Enigma Machine
National Astronomy Meeting: Tuesday
National Astronomy Meeting: Monday
Technology and Tennis
How do we make the right decisions?
Naked in Cheltenham
What is Random?
Science Toys, for Boys?
Touching Up On Art Restoration
What does DNA sequencing do for me?
Ice-Quakes in Svalbard
Benedict Cumberbatch
Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Martin Welch
Protecting Nerves from Damage
Extra Questions - The Science Behind Broadcasting
Sir John Gurdon, Nobel Laureate
BSF 2012 - Subglacial Lakes & Food on the Brain
BSF 2012 - Finding Higgs and Mining Heat
BSF 2012 - Seeing through Clothes and Water Voles
Monitoring your Mobile Phone
BSF 2012 - Caring Technology and Colourful Fossils
Saving Satellites
Mars Curiosity Extra
How Intelligence Happens
What happens when we screw with our sleep patterns?
A global classroom brings the oceans alive
Mental Maps in the Brain
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Opening up Your Mind
Discovering the world's deepest deep sea vents
Brain Control of Appetite and Body Weight
How Nicotine Switches the Brain onto Cocaine
The Biology of Behaviour
Contagion Special
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - NHS Rationing
How Plants Attract Bats
Learning about Sheep Learning
The Pressures of the Deep Sea
Picturing the underwater world
Taking a lobster's view on the oceans
Exploring the wonders of the deep
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Zero Degrees of Empathy
Um, How Toddlers Learn Language
Reefs at Risk Revisited
Alzheimers on the Mind
Smart Way to Rehab
Spectacular Synchronous Coral Spawning
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Back in the Saddle: Getting Paralysed People Riding and Rowing
Light Shed on Dark GRBs
Animal Pathology - National Pathology Week 2010
Pathologists in Pregnancy - National Pathology Week 2010
Behind the Scenes at Great Ormond Street - National Pathology Week 2010
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - DNA and Cancer
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Dementia and an Ageing Population
HIV Treatment in Rural Africa
The Psychology of Shopping
Breaking the GM Taboo
Earthquakes: Past, Present and Future
Malaria - The Gorilla's Gift
Computing with a Quantum Walk
A New Look for Corneal Transplants
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Synthetic Biology
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Gambling and the Brain!
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Do Our Genes Cause Obesity?
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Ape Research in Indonesia
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Jumping to Delusions!
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Our Place in the Cosmos!
Communicating with Patients in Persistent Vegetative States
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Pandemics: Where Do New Infections Come From?
Heart Transplant - National Pathology Week 2009
Anatomy of a Heart Attack - Pathology Week 2009
Think Heart - Pathology Week 2009
The Art of the Heart - Pathology Week 2009
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Nanofoods Archived
Cafe Scientifique - Nanofoods
World Hepatitis Day
National Pathology Week - The Autopsy
National Pathology Week - Self Testing
National Pathology Week - Plague Outbreak
National Pathology Week
Getting Wet and Seeing Stars - The Cambridge Science Festival Podcast
The science of happiness, love and everyday life-The Cambridge Science Festival Podcast
Building Brains and The Science of Dr Who - The Cambridge Science Festival
Revealing our Memory and Holidays in Space- Cambridge Science Festival 08
Renewable Energy and Venetian Acoustics - The Cambridge Science Festival Podcast
Revealing our Minds and Saving our Planet.
Cracking Physics, Countdowns, and Drunken Fleas - Cambridge Science Festival
Chemistry, Bacteria and Eyeballs - Cambridge Science Festival
DNA and Cosmic Rock Guitar - Cambridge Science Festival
Silent Aircraft, Astronomy and Robots - Cambridge Science Festival
BA Festival of Science - Thursday - Animal Emotions and Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents
BA Festival of Science - Wednesday - Volcanoes and the Big Bang
BA Festival of Science - Tuesday - Diet, Exercise, Health and Antibiotics
BA Festival of Science - Monday - Superstition and Sport