Making Babies - Fertility and Pregnancy
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The latest in the science of fertility, IVF and pregnancy... We find out how pre-implantation tests could improve the success of IVF and how stress during pregnancy affects foetal development. Plus, why knowledge is its own reward, how a jockey's posture makes horses run faster and how science publishing on the web is about to change. In Kitchen Science, Dave finds out how a bag of liquid cushions a developing baby inside its mother!
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It turns out that the jockey's amusing posture has some serious physics behind it. Andrew Spence tells us more...
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It looks as if the world of scientific papers is about to be transformed. Cell Editor, Emilie Marcus, explains:
I have a suggestion for the noise that electric cars should be forced to make
Thank you so much for including and answering my question about colour this week!
Regarding the maximum size of aircraft, as recently discussed on Ask the Naked Scientists...
Great cocktail party fodder!
How to stop an egg from breaking when dropped without any padding, and what it has to do with a womb.
Many people manage to get pregnant doing it nature’s way. But some people need a little bit of medical help and that’s when they turn to In Vitro Fertilization. For some people, this is the only they're able to have their own children, but at the moment, it is far from perfect...
We've now heard how you can test embryos for vital clues as to which ones are probably the healthiest and therefore likely to result in a successful pregnancy, but what about testing mothers directly so that you can predict who's got the best IVF prospects? Well Dr Cathy Allen ...
Is it true that a woman’s degree of fertility or the amount of oestrogen that she produces depends on her genes? I’d be grateful if you could consider this.
Pregnant women are advised to eat well, to lay off the booze, not to smoke and to take it easy and put their feet up. But little is said about avoiding stress. Now, it seems that stress during pregnancy might affect the way that the foetus would develop as Meera Senthilingam f...
Are female humans are the only mammals that suffer from post-natal depression?
How old is a cat when it first gets to make an adult sounding meow?
Why does the body needs salt and what happens if you have low salt levels?
How does black skin give better survival in hot places? Black colour absorbs heat while white colour reflects it, then black colour at hot places should burn the skin, but actually it is not so. Why?
Hello, Naked Scientists, could you please tell me what's happening when you hear the snap, crackle and pop with Rice Crispies? Thank you.
Does a good jockey actually make a horse go faster despite the extra weight and aero dynamic drag?
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