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X-ray-ted Molecular Movies

Scientists have found a way to see molecules in motion, providing us with new insights into the way complex chemistry takes place. Zurich University's Peter...

Bling Helps To Detect Cocaine

This week we've been hearing about the radioactive Polonium poisoning that killed Russian Alexander Litvinenko. Although that's extremely rare, doctors are ...

Bug Helps Chemo Home in on Cancer

Scientists have found a bacterium that can help target anti-cancer drugs to the heart of a tumour, reducing the damage done to healthy tissues and minimisin...

The Fever That Came in From The Cold

"Feed a cold and starve a fever", stated the doctors of yester-year, possibly wrongly, but now there's proof that running a temperature really doe...

More Reasons For Red Wine Being Good For Us

Here on the Naked Scientists we've often talked about how scientists are uncovering more ways in which enjoying an occasional glass of red wine might be goo...

Climate Change Is Making Frogs Sick

On the show a few weeks ago, we heard about frogs communicating to each other with ultrasound, but sadly these week I have rather more gloomy frog news - it...

Now That's What I Call a Brainwave

Electrically stimulating the brain while it sleeps can boost memory formation, scientists have found. Writing in this week's Nature, University of Lubeck re...

An Eye For an Eye

For the first time researchers have successfully repaired the damaged retina. The technique restored vision in mice that had been genetically programmed to ...

Brain Packaging Makes Memories

The human brain is an incredible thing, enabling us to recall past events in great detail. But sometimes people only remember parts of an experience, while ...

Why Humans Are Like Sea Urchins

You might not feel much like a Californian purple sea urchin, but you're more like one than you might think, according to the latest results from Baylor Col...