Episódios

  • A decade of detecting gravitational waves

    A decade of detecting gravitational waves
    Sep 16 2025
    To celebrate 10 years since they were first detected, we're examining gravitational waves. What are they? And how do we find them? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    36 minutos
  • Ancient Mars bacteria, and 'fugitive' methane leaks

    Ancient Mars bacteria, and 'fugitive' methane leaks
    Sep 12 2025
    In this edition of The Naked Scientists, the strongest hint yet of life on Mars. Should we get excited? Or is it another red herring? Also ahead: The first new UK-wide study of babies in 25 years. We'll find out why it matters. Plus, an ancient lizard-like fossil is discovered on the coast of Devon. We'll uncover the significance... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    35 minutos
  • Made in orbit: How to sustain life in space

    Made in orbit: How to sustain life in space
    Sep 9 2025
    What does it take to build a society in space? Today on the Naked Scientists, we explore efforts to make microgravity amenable to humans; including how to harvest energy, make fresh food, and even birth the next generation of space explorers... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    35 minutos
  • Energy drinks curb, and biting back against beetles

    Energy drinks curb, and biting back against beetles
    Sep 5 2025
    In this edition of The Naked Scientists: A new test to detect Alzheimer's disease long before symptoms first appear. Also, the study showing Earth can sequester only a tenth of the carbon we thought it could. And, how drones, traps and sniffer dogs are protecting the UK's timber industry from beetle attack... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    35 minutos
  • Is AI changing the way we think?

    Is AI changing the way we think?
    Sep 2 2025
    In this edition of The Naked Scientists, from bogus scientific papers and misleading made-up "facts", to potentially curtailing our critical thinking, we look at the effect that mass adoption of AI might be having on the way we think, the decisions we make and the information we learn and act on... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    34 minutos
  • First pig lung transplant, and the origins of dark energy

    First pig lung transplant, and the origins of dark energy
    Aug 29 2025
    Today on the Naked Scientists: a pig lung is transplanted into a man in China, but what was the outcome? Also, scientists have a theory for the origins of Dark Energy - and it makes sense that a black hole might be the source! And, why the dawn chorus is starting earlier and finishing later these days: what's getting into wildlife? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    34 minutos
  • What can we do about hair loss?

    What can we do about hair loss?
    Aug 26 2025
    In this edition of The Naked Scientists, we look at the science of hair, why we suffer hair loss, treatments that can slow hair loss, whether wigs are any good, and what happens during a hair transplant? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    37 minutos
  • Apple wins privacy row, and microbes dictate chocolate taste

    Apple wins privacy row, and microbes dictate chocolate taste
    Aug 22 2025
    In this edition of The Naked Scientists, Apple locked horns with the UK government who were demanding a security back door through the company's encryption. What was the outcome? Also, scientists discover the secret to the tastiest chocolate - it's all down to microbes. And, archaeologists uncover the earliest evidence yet of our ancestors using stone tools... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    35 minutos