Video Podcasts

Video podcast strands produced by the Naked Scientists.

01 April 2011

An autopsy specimen from an elderly male who presented with bilateral ischaemia of the legs following recent myocardial...

01 April 2011

Part of a surgical amputation specimen from an 82 year old man. An aneurysm of the popliteal artery had been discovered...

01 April 2011

A 1930 autopsy specimen from a man aged 50, who died of Blackwater fever. The specimen consists of an enlarged...

01 April 2011

A 1924 autopsy specimen showing advanced amoebic ulceration of the colon. The ulcers have become contiguous and the...

01 April 2011

A Venezualan specimen from the early twentieth century comprising an extreme example of'Mossy foot' in which...

01 April 2011

Part of a 1960 surgical resection specimen comprising the right lower leg from a native of New Guinea showing a large,...

01 April 2011

A pot, from the old Wellcome collection, containing a slice of pig heart showing numerous thin walled cysticerci of...

01 April 2011

A 1963 autopsy specimen from a 21 year old woman with a three month history of weight loss, cough and occassional blood...

01 April 2011

The specimen consists of transverse sections of a normal oesophagus (bottom) and seven others taken from patients who...

01 April 2011

A 1963 autopsy specimen from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The specimen consists of a segment of sigmoid colon from an adult...

01 April 2011

A 1971 autopsy specimen from the Dreadnought hospital comprising a partly hemisected testis showing multiple soft,...

01 April 2011

A 73 year old woman who died two hours after admission to hospital. At autopsy, a gallstone stone was found in the...

01 April 2011

Lungs showing caseous TB pneumonia, "galloping consumption"...

01 April 2011

Had this child lived, he would have had severe neurological deficit...

01 April 2011

A 1945 autopsy specimen from a female aged 30 who had had hepatitis fifteen years before death. Six months before dying...

01 April 2011

A 1924 autopsy specimen from the London hospital comprising a portion of bladder together with the urethra opened to...

01 April 2011

Why does ice float in the cool summer drink of your choice? And why don't ponds and lakes freeze from the bottom...

27 March 2011

Professor Jan Cilliers explains the mineral separation process to see how bubbles and foam can be used to get the...

20 March 2011

James Kay explains the workings of the Diamond synchrotron and the factors that need to be considered when engineering...

18 March 2011

Mosquitoes can transmit deadly diseases like malaria.But could they pass on HIV if they drank from an infected person?...

07 March 2011

We visit the tablet manufactuing site of Glaxosmithkline to see how millions of tablets are made each year with...

04 March 2011

Copper compounds can be blue, green, yellow, brown and black - so how does it produce so many different colours? We...

27 February 2011

We explore how load cells can be used measure muscle force and develop treatments for physiotherapy...