Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
Episodes
Forecasting solar storms, fish personalities
18 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why accurately forecasting solar storms is becoming increasingly important; and how understanding how fish shoa...
Entering the Infra-Red Zone
09 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This month, discover how seeing red can help restore works of art and probe the origins of cancer. We delve into the world of Infra-red spectroscopy t...
BSF 2012 - Subglacial Lakes & Food on the Brain
06 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In the final of our special series of programmes from the British Science Festival, we find out how researchers will be drilling through over 3 kilome...
BSF 2012 - Finding Higgs and Mining Heat
05 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this special edition of the Naked Scientists from the British Science Festival, we get the latest news from the Large Hadron Collider, including th...
BSF 2012 - Seeing through Clothes and Water Voles
04 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In the second special programme from the British Science Festival in Aberdeen, we discover the technology for seeing through your clothes and find out...
Monitoring your Mobile Phone
03 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
With 40% of adults in the UK now using smartphones, and similar figures worldwide, we discover how easy it is to track and profile peoples' movements ...
BSF 2012 - Caring Technology and Colourful Fossils
03 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this, the first of a series of special podcasts from the British Science Festival, we discover the Wang Particle, find out how technology can help ...
Early tetrapods, upland rivers, North Anatolian Fault
03 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: what the first creatures to walk on land looked like; the connection between the biodiversity of upland rivers ...
Saving Satellites
31 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Satellites are essential, and not just for the latest television. Nation states rely on satellites for reconnaissance, navigation and secure commun...
Bees and sex, acid rain's legacy, cold water corals
14 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: sex and the survival of honey bee colonies; why rivers are still recovering from the legacy of acid rain; and c...
Mars Curiosity Extra
05 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
NASA's David Blake from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover team and the Open University's Cassini-Huygens space probe pioneer John Zarn...
Early African dairy farming, seabird migrations
31 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how dairy farming in Africa 7000 years ago led to the speedy evolution of the gene that lets us digest milk; an...
Brown water, bats and streetlights, plant methane
18 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how browner drinking water presents problems for the water companies; the effect of street lighting on bats and...
Exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience
16 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Find out about the exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience, providing scientists with the tools to unlock the mysteries of the...
The Naked Scientists unravel the connections in your brain
15 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
We find out what happens when your immune system attacks the brain, how a protein providing the architecture of brain connectivity may help to treat p...
The Naked Scientists strip down the brain in Spain
14 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Naked Scientists strip down the brain in Spain - attending the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona. We find out ...
Making a Material World
04 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we get materialistic to discover how X-rays are being used to improve light emitting diodes , how probing piezoelectric materials could pr...
Urban heat, ancient cave art, bold birds
04 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at how urban heat islands will alter under climate change, and how these changes might affect your healt...
Bees, nanomaterials, and methane on Mars
19 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how knowing exactly which bees pollinate which crops may help us grow food more sustainably; and a look at the ...
Medical diagnostics, the value of nature
05 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at how technology designed to measure air pollution may soon be used to smell disease on a patient's bre...
Cold water corals, meteorites, new greenhouse gases
23 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - scientists describe why the planet's least understood but most diverse species of coral is under threat. Also,...
Drought and record rainfall, indoor avalanches
09 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: researchers explain why, despite record rainfall, England is in drought. Later, how scientists are using indoor...
How Intelligence Happens
07 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Professor John Duncan explores human intelligence and the neurons and circuits in the brain that enable us to have the thoughts, cognition...
Microscopic plants, using volcanic ash for dating
25 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - we take a closer look at tiny marine plants, which underpin the entire marine food chain and play a vital role...
Fungal threats, hydrothermal vents, green buildings
15 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how fungal infections could threaten our food security as well as the planet's amphibians; work under way to un...
Air pollution, dwarf elephants and water footprints.
27 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears about new air-quality monitoring that could help mitigate the effects of bad-air days;...
Ten Years of Diamond
25 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we celebrate ten years of Diamond and discover what it takes to get from green field site to functioning synchrotron. We take a look at th...
What happens when we screw with our sleep patterns?
22 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Cambridge Neuroscientists Dr Michael Hastings and Dr Akhilesh Reddy spoke at the annual Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar about their work on sleep.They ...
Invasive signal crayfish, shags, night-shining clouds
14 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham finds out why the American signal crayfish is driving out one of the UK's native species; in...
A global classroom brings the oceans alive
07 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Marine biologist Dr Joshua Drew from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is using cutting edge communication technologies to bring the ocea...
River Thames pollution, Arctic freshwater bulge
05 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Sue Nelson goes to the River Thames in central London to find out why nitrate pollution has trebled since the 1...
Mental Maps in the Brain
28 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
What's your sense of direction like? And how good are you at reading a map? It turns out, these skills are down to two particular regions of the brain...
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Opening up Your Mind
21 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This Month, Dr Hannah Critchlow opens up the mind to reveal the neurons controlling the inner workings of our brain and how we perceive the world arou...
Testing satellites on Earth, hedgerow wildlife
17 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson visits RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to find out how scientists che...
Revitalising urban rivers, hot conservation topics
31 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham goes to the River Wandle in south-west London to find out how scientific research is helpin...
Day to Day Diamond
23 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we step inside to explore what, and who, it takes to run the synchrotron. We meet the people that keep the electrons accelerating to produ...
The Hoff Crab, North Sea fisheries, flood prediction
17 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
It's not often that science news goes viral, but when researchers dubbed a new species the 'Hoff Crab' more people than usual seemed to take notice! L...
Discovering the world's deepest deep sea vents
13 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Deep sea researchers Doug Connelly and Jon Copley led the team that discovered the deepest and possibly hottest undersea volcanoes on the planet. In a...
Brain Control of Appetite and Body Weight
10 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Dr Lora Heisler discusses the brain mechanisms controlling our appetite and subsequent body weight. She explores the many drivers behind h...
Parkour and orang-utans, risks from solar storms
09 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to Birmingham to find out how the James Bond film Casino Royale and orang-utan conservation ar...
The Thames Barrier, the colour of prehistoric birds
12 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to the Thames Barrier to find out how engineers use science to decide whether or not to raise ...
How Nicotine Switches the Brain onto Cocaine
05 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
How does nicotine open a gateway to cocaine addiction? A new study indicates that nicotine primes the brain for cocaine - by altering the structure of...
Chemistry at the Synchrotron
05 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we celebrate the international year of chemistry by exploring the wide range of chemical discoveries and research taking place at Diamon...
The Ozone Hole, Starlings in Fair Isle, Forest Fires
22 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham talks to one of the scientists behind the discovery of the ozone hole to find why it's stil...
The Biology of Behaviour
22 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Tony Holland provides a window into the biology of behaviour and how genetic syndromes are helping open this window to provide greater leve...
Contagion Special
11 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this infectious special podcast, we explore the science behind Stephen Soderburgh's latest film, Contagion, which depicts the series of events that...
Treating snakebites, and European shags
08 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson visits the largest collection of venomous snakes in the UK to find out how researchers are developi...
Neanderthal mammoth hunters in Jersey
02 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham meets scientists and archaeologists who are working to preserve one of the most important Ne...
HIV, Haemophilia and Muscular Dystophies
30 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this final podcast from the BSGT Conference we hear how genes could be targeted to develop a new drug for HIV as well as long awaited treatments fo...
Cancer and Ocular Gene Therapies
28 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Today we hear how cancers, retinal degeneration, spinal chord injury and liver disease can all be targeted using gene and stem cell therapy techniqu...
Respiratory Disorders and Muscular Dystrophies
27 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In today's podcast we hear how gene therapy can be used to target a variety of respiratory disorders such as Cystic Fibrosis and how scientists are tr...
Public Engagement in Gene therapy
26 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this first podcast from the 2011 BSGT/ESGCT Conference in Brighton we bring you the highlights from the Public Engagment day including an introdu...
The deep sea, ancient proteins, Arctic research
10 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how scientists find out about life in the oceans' deepest trenches; how identifying proteins from 50 milion ye...
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - NHS Rationing
10 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Linda Sharples gives an insight into the workings of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and how new medical treatments, d...
Spreading aliens, Arctic experience, and Antarctica
27 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how hikers and walkers could be unwittingly changing the landscape by spreading alien species; what it's like t...
Looking into the Light!
18 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This month we look into the light to discover how Diamond's new Imaging and Coherance beamline is helping scientists see with greater clarity than eve...
Engineering the climate to tackle climate change
14 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: in a geoengineering special edition, we take a closer look at some of the technologies we may have to resort to...
Australopithecus Sediba Special
07 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Reader in evolution at Wits University, Lee Berger, made a life-changing discovery when he uncovered the remains of a new species of hominid, Australo...
Stonehenge, microscopic plants, and baboons
23 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, why scientists are working with the National Trust to restore the chalk grasslands around Stonehenge; how resea...
Where do all the salmon go, and making CO2 bricks
12 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how scientists are using fish scales to figure out why the UK salmon population is falling; and how carbon diox...
How Plants Attract Bats
28 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A species of tropical vine attracts its bat pollinators using acoustic signals, rather than bright colours or smells, according to a study published i...
Searching for life in Lake Ellsworth
26 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why scientists are planning on drilling three kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet in one of the most amb...
Rip Currents and Carbon Capture
12 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week, why understanding rip currents at Perranporth in north Cornwall could help save lives; how exactly does carbon capture and storage (CCS) wo...
WWII bunkers, thugs and aliens, and calving glaciers
07 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, why weathermen are using a converted World War II bunker to monitor clouds; how thug species such as bramble, n...
Inside Diamond
06 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we venture into the synchrotron along with members of the public to bring you a glimpse of the Inside Diamond open days. We meet the engin...
Bumblebee declines, microbes, and amazing birds
17 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - what UK farmers are doing to protect the country's vanishing bumblebees, butterflies and other pollinating ins...
Learning about Sheep Learning
13 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jenny Morton provides new insight into the cognitive abilities of the supposedly dim-witted sheep and explains how these quick learning anim...
The Pressures of the Deep Sea
09 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Anything in the deep sea, whether that's the microbes that live down there, or the research vehicles sent down to take samples of them face the same c...
Cuckoos at Wicken Fen, snow, and radiocarbon dating
03 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - the cunning tricks the cuckoo uses to get another bird to do the parenting, why researchers are studying snow ...
Picturing the underwater world
01 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest problems when it comes to caring for the ocean realm is that it is out of sight and out of mind. It's hard to care about something ...
Taking a lobster's view on the oceans
31 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
How do marine animals hear, see, touch, and smell the world around them? Life underwater is obviously very different to life on land and it can be dif...
Exploring the wonders of the deep
30 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The saying goes that we known more about the surface of the moon than we do about the deep sea - and that's probably true. But modern technologies are...
Flood defences, the Southern Ocean, and whiter clouds
24 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, why removing some man-made coastal flood defences might not be such a harebrained idea, what it's like studying...
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - Zero Degrees of Empathy
16 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen explores human empathy and explains what empathy is, how it differs amongst the population and the neurologica...
Science from a plane, and forecasting space storms
05 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how a specially-designed twin turboprop research plane is helping scientists in a huge range of subjects from a...
Volcanic ash and sediment time machines
26 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how last year's eruption of the Eyjafjallajkull volcano in Iceland gave scientists an unparalleled opportunity ...
The Power of Magnetism
17 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This month we attract your attention to the power of magnetism as we explore just what magnetism is and how it can be induced. We also explore the rol...
Um, How Toddlers Learn Language
14 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionally viewed as a poor verbal practise, the ums and ers uttered by parents may in fact play a critical role in helping toddlers to learn new w...
The Earth's magnetic field, snow, and Chernobyl
07 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how scientists plan to measure the Earth's magnetic field from space, why one researcher is in the frozen town ...
Fish poo, dead whales, and the Japan earthquake
23 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how the famous White Cliffs of Dover could be made of fish poo (at least partially), why one researcher is so i...
Reefs at Risk Revisited
10 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Coral reefs are vibrant ecosystems packed with spectacular underwater life that protect coastlines and provide food and income for millions of people....
Carbon capture and storage, floods, CryoSat-2
09 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how carbon capture and storage works and why it's here to stay, the effect of floodplains on water pollution, a...
Tracking insects with a Big Dish, Australian floods
01 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how tracking insects can help scientists forecast summer storms and floods, and the role one of Europe's key sa...
Alzheimers on the Mind
17 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
For this month's Cafe, Graham Fraser, from the Medical Research Council, discusses the prevalence and causes of Alzheimers disease as well is his rese...
Smart Way to Rehab
11 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Fewer than one third of patients who suffer a heart attack attend rehabilitation sessions, despite evidence that this follow-up support can be vital i...
Romans recycling, dinosaur colour, gravity mission
10 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how the Romans recycled glass, dinosaur colour, and what Europe's gravity mission tells us about ocean current...
Spectacular Synchronous Coral Spawning
10 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
How do you go about finding a mate if you can't go and look for one? This is the problem corals, which are rooted to the seabed, have found a spectacu...
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
07 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future hold for us? Is the future bright, shining and brimming with opportunity, or a dark, dystopian drudgery? Recent scientific adva...
Eroding Coastlines and Holy Grails - A look back at 2010
31 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This month we look back at Diamond's scientific highlights of 2010 to reveal how microbes are eroding away our coastline and how metal organic framewo...
Noisy coral reefs, melting ice sheets and whale speak
28 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest watery-themed Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears how the underwater world isn't the soundless place you might imagine. Fro...
Essex coral reefs, malaria in the UK, and Antarctica
12 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
As the UK winter continues to bite, Sue Nelson tries to escape it all by going to visit a coral reef. Unfortunately for Sue, the coral reef is not in...
An audio diary special edition
05 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special edition of the Planet Earth podcast, featuring some of our favourite audio diaries from the past year. We've got scientists using c...
Back in the Saddle: Getting Paralysed People Riding and Rowing
26 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of the Naked Scientists podcast, we explore the world of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES), a technology allowing people...
Light Shed on Dark GRBs
21 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dark gamma ray bursts have puzzled astronomers for over a decade. The energetic gamma ray events, known as Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), all have an afterg...
Red squirrels and a tropical Antarctica
09 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Red squirrels used to be the most common squirrel in Britain. But since the grey squirrel was introduced from the USA as an illegal immigrant in the l...
Animal Pathology - National Pathology Week 2010
09 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast from National Pathology Week 2010, we join Dr Alun Williams at the Natural History Museum to discover the importance of veterinary pat...
Pathologists in Pregnancy - National Pathology Week 2010
08 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the role of pathologists in pregnancy and childbirth in this podcast from National Pathology Week 2010. We discover what we can learn from...
Arctic Expedition Special
07 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Richard Hollingham reports from an unusual and somewhat cold location - onboard the British Antarctic Survey's RRS James Clark Ross wh...
Behind the Scenes at Great Ormond Street - National Pathology Week 2010
07 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
We go behind closed doors in this special podcast from National Pathology Week 2010, visiting the pathology labs at the world famous Great Ormond Stre...
Palm oil plantations, charcoal, and a flea circus
23 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Does your shopping basket contain chocolate, biscuits and shampoo? If it does, you may be unwittingly contributing to the destruction of the some of t...