The Naked Scientists Podcast

This week, do diet foods make children fat? Could a space screw save us from catastrophic collisions? Have we seen the...

This week, mind reading children, scientists find a new gene in the lung cancer cocktail, and satnav or map-nav - what...

This week, clean coal technology - how to get the energy from coal without digging it up, why GM goats are helping to...

This week, we find out about survival in extreme environments. We find out how free divers descend hundreds of feet...

This week, from iPod to iRod as a man's taste for music turns him into a human lightning conductor, why penguins...

This week news that men talk as much as women, cosmetics from jellyfish, songbirds "greatest-tits", a...

This week, playing bingo on an inflatable space station, a new way to attack the cause of Alzheimer's and mending...

This week, we're looking at what causes earthquakes, how to clean contaminated land, meteorite strikes, hazardous...

We find out about old aged whales thanks to a piece of shrapnel, a new rice-based vaccine for cholera, and how...

Want to know how fat you'd need to be to stop a speeding bullet?

This week, will a hot mint still taste cold? Also how skimmed milk could come straight from the cow in future, and why...

This week on the Naked Scientists we will be venturing into space on an inter galactic mission to learn more about the...

Coming up this week on the Naked Scientists radio show and podcast we have some airy experts; Jonathan Shanklin will be...

This week on the Naked Scientists we have a whole host of experts in bacteria, fungi and viruses. We'll have Dr...

This week Drs Chris, Dave and Phil find out how a venomous spider's bite has Viagra-like properties, how maggots...

Bruce Winney explains how rural populations in Britain help to uncover genes linked to diseases, Turi King discusses...

Corals are falling prey to global warming. Annelise Hagan joins us to explain how she uses a spotter plane to home in...

This week new research into cancers, how tumours arise, and new ways to combat cancer. Fiona Watt explains how cancer...

We look at the science behind one of the biggest killers in the western world - heart disease including what is a heart...

This week on the Naked Scientists Radio Show and podcast we will be looking at flight - in terms of both animals and...

This week, all the fun of the Cambridge Science Festival as we find out about the cool science of ice cream, the world...

The naked scientists try and answer all of your questions, no matter how strange or wacky

Dr Chris and Dr Kat chat to archaeologist Lawrence Owens about his latest excavations of Peruvian Mummies and Keith...

Dr Chris and Dr Helen answer all your burning science questions, including why hair looks darker when it's wet,...