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Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution, joins us to discuss how does the brain generate consciousness, what is consciousness, how can we study consciouness, what is unconsciousness, and are animals conscious in the same way that humans are ?
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Author and world-renowned authority on psychical research and psychical phenomena Dr. Tony Cornell joins The Naked Scientists to discuss what is a ghost, what is a poltergeist, how do scientists study ghosts and hauntings, and who can see ghosts.
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Dr. Jens Krause, from Leeds University, has developed a robotic fish that can be used in the laboratory to study how fish form shoals. He also discusses what we know about how fish behave in the wild and answers the age-old question of how long is the memory of a fish ?
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Dr. Tony Hooley, from the development company 1Limited, discusses the principles and applications of 3D surround sound, and a new surround-sound system which uses just one one speaker unit.
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Dr. Stacey Efstathiou, from Cambridge University, joins The Naked Scientists to talk about what is a virus, how viruses were discovered, how big are viruses, how viruses cause disease, how viral illnesses can be treated, and how viruses evade the immune system.
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Eukaryotic cells contain remnants of ancient bacteria called mitochondria, which provide energy for cellular processes. Changes in the DNA contained within mitochondria, which still shares many features with bacterial DNA, can be studied to follow the evolution of cells and humans.
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Genetically modified crops and plants and biotechnology is increasingly used in South America. GM Soybean (roundup-ready) saves farmers large amounts of money on herbicides, and since the GM crops need less spraying, there are fewer residues left on the crop, making it safer.
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How does the brain develop in the embryo, how does the nervous system respond to injury, including spinal cord injury, and what are the prospects for spinal cord repair ? Dr. Adrian Pini,developmental neurbiologist from GKT Medical School, London, tells us more.
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Using measurements taken from thousands of people it is possible to rebuild, in clay, what a person's face would have looked like during life. Caroline Wilkinson is a facial anthopologist and describes how a face is reconstructed using clay, the practical applications of facial anthropology, including forensic and archaeological work.
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SCUBA divers Shwen Gwee and Nick Cuttler talk about scuba diving, where to go diving, how scuba divers are helping with marine conservation, and what happens to your body when you scuba dive. Guest Ben Allanach, from CERN, joins us to talk about the big bang.
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