Science Interviews

The Chemical that Keeps Nerves Alive

Researchers at Cambridge’s Babraham Institute have identified a factor that helps to stop nerves from degenerating. This could lead to better treatments for degenerative diseases, but also better ways to halt the degradation of a nerve when it gets damage as a result of an injury or stroke...Dr. Michael Coleman, the Babraham Institute.

Augmented Reality in Space

Augmented reality headsets may find a perfect home miles above the surface of Earth, helping astronauts to repair and maintain the International Space Station...Luis Arguello, European Space Agency

Rehabilitation in Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality is a computer simulated version of the real world. Meera Senthilingam has been exploring the use of simulated environments for medical treatment and rehabilitation...Dr. Paul Penn, University of East London

What is Augmented Reality?

Just what is Augmented Reality? Dr Tom Drummond, from Cambridge University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory, joins us to explain more...Dr Tom Drummond, Cambridge University

The Ecology of Insurgency

Michael Spagat discusses how insurgent events can be modelled to deal with future attacks...Professor Michael Spagat, Royal Holloway, University of London

Insensitive Munitions

Meera Senthilingam explores how munitions are designed and tested to ensure they only detonate when they're supposed to!Professor Jackie Akhavan and Dr James Padfield, Cranfield University

Shock Physics

Bill Proud explains how the shockwaves created by explosions affect other materials, including human tissue...Dr Bill Proud, Cambridge University and Imperial College London

Understanding Explosions

Graham McShane explains what happens when you blow things up, both on land and under water...Dr Graham McShane, Cambridge University

Artificially Intelligent Games

Meera Senthilingam becomes Sherlock Holmes to investigate the uses of Artificial Intelligence in the world of online gaming... and possibly in call centres!Chris Vallance, BBC Technology Correspondent & Rollo Carpenter, Icogno Ltd

Geology of a Natural Disaster

We discover the geology behind the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti...Dr Paul Mann, University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences

Auditory Illusions

Bob Carlyon explores the illusory side of our hearing...Bob Carlyon, University of Cambridge

Language in the Deaf Brain

A deaf person's brain uses many of the same systems and pathways to understand sign language as a hearing person does to understand speech. Mairead McSweeney joins us to explain more...Dr Mairead McSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Science, UCL

Analysing Acoustics and the "Cocktail Party Effect"

"The train standing at platform mgph is the phuy-hfgjy to mmughpyhmm..." We meet a sound simulation system that can improve the clarity of railway station announcements and recreate the "cocktail party effect" to help build better hearing aids...Jens Holger Rindel, Odeon A/S and Jorg Buchholz, Technical University of Denmark

The Genetics of Hearing

Karen steel discusses the genetic mutations and changes that can impair our hearing...Professor Karen Steel, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Why Skull Bone is Special Bone

Ian McKay discusses the differences between the bone in our limbs and our skull...Dr Ian McKay, Queen Mary University of London

2009's Naked Science in retrospect

For the final show on 2009, and the decade, the team look back on some of the year's "Naked-Scientific" highlights...

Acoustic Archaeology

For hundreds of years composers have been creating beautiful and complex pieces of music, written to be sung by many voices in harmony. But if the buildings for which these movements were written no longer exist, it can be difficult for musical scholars and historians to predict how they would have sounded. Now Cambridge Physicist Malcolm Longair has come up with a way around the problem - a system that can model the acoustics of a long-gone building to recreate the authentic sound of the music that was played there.Prof. Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Dissecting Christmas Dinner

Dr John Brackenbury gets out his scalpel to reveal what the inner anatomical workings of a cooked chicken...Dr John Brackenbury, Cambridge University Vet School

Protecting, Anti-'flu Viruses

Nigel Dimmock discusses a new anti-influenza strategy - a virus that protects you from infection...Nigel Dimmock, Warwick University

How are 'Flu Vaccines Produced?

How are 'flu vaccines prepared, how long does it take and how is the technology evolving?Tarit Mukhopadhyay, University College London; John Dillon, GlaxoSmithKline; Rino Rappuoli, Novartis