Naked Scientists Special Editions Podcast
1) Aspirin vs Clopidogrel: The blood thinner battle
Clots in our blood vessels can be responsible for very serious health problems such as strokes and heart attacks. To combat this, some people at risk of said health problems turn towards blood thinner...Show More
2) Public Success, Private Grief: remembering Peter Cowley
Peter Cowley was an entrepreneur, angel investor, and for many years was the Naked Scientists technology commentator, a role he fell into by accident when we met one evening at an investment meeting. ...Show More
3) Keeping humans healthy in orbit
With only a few walls between an astronaut and a rapid death, what do we know about the various dangers to the human body during space travel? Chris Smith spoke with Mark Shelhamer, a professor of Oto...Show More
4) Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes
This month, as the eLife Podcast hits its century, we hear how getting frog dads to cross-foster tadpoles has revealed the way in which some frogs come by their microbiomes, the ants that do gene ther...Show More
5) Synthetic sustainable spuds
As the global population heads toward 10 billion, the pressure on agriculture is mounting. With that in mind, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has announced millions of pounds wo...Show More
6) Insect extinctions, and AI shot in the arm for drug design
In episode 10 of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast, the shocking finding that as many as 2 invertebrate species are going extinct each week in Australia: what can be done? Also, the shot in the arm that AI...Show More
7) Storing data with "molecular firecrackers"
Your personal data could soon be stored not on a phone or server but locked inside a molecule so tiny it's invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have cracked the code on storing digital information ...Show More
8) Brain-invading bacterium is making fruit flies extra frisky
What if a parasite could rewire your brain - not to harm you, but to make you... more romantic? This week on The Naked Scientists, we're exploring the bizarre world of Wolbachia - a bacterium that tur...Show More
9) Speedy, soft robot powered by air alone
Using only soft tubes and a continuous stream of air, a team of researchers at AMOLF in Amsterdam have created one of the fastest and simplest soft robots to date. Marushka Soobben with the story... L...Show More
10) Frog toxicity, and what a year's schooling does to the brain
What is the impact of an extra year at school on the brain? Also, how poison dart frogs come by their toxins, using movies to track the developing infant nervous system, the insect-spread bacterial pl...Show More