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Spread the word

... of the wider impacts of scientific practice and scientific life. Recently we’ve looked at the impacts of the positive ... - eLife digests are plain language summaries of research articles. We’ve been including them in research articles ... asking the authors of research papers to answer some questions for us in more plain language and that’s really ...

Chris Smith MIOC highschool Croatia

The Naked Scientists visit a Croatian high school

... students were bursting to ask all kinds of curious science questions and we wasted no time. A tour of the universe As a ... impressive light shows in the sky as new stars burst to life, but then we'd be wiped out by supernova explosions when ... He then explored several of the world’s most pressing questions, deliberated by ancient philosophers for centuries. ...

The wild frontier: animal models

... research over the past few decades. But how does life in the lab compare to life in the wild? And what can ... that they use in their research? eLife are exploring these questions with a new series of articles called, The Natural History of Model Organisms. Ian ...

TEAM

Bee-keeping scientists!

Chris Smith introduces the team answering your science questions this month. University of York animal behaviour ... to be getting on with. Chris - Eleanor, thank you. So any questions you have about insects perhaps even bees, bee ... poking fun at it, or are you kind of making light of what life as a scientist and a researcher is like? Is that the ...

photo of a man looking bored

Life on pause - lockdown boredom experiences

... has been a phenomenal issue in the way that it's asked questions of them that I don't know - I've never had to deal ... and some of them have spoken out and there are a lot of articles written on this, they really do feel like their ... in a really key way. Katie - You mentioned the idea of life being on pause. And from what I understand, you're ...

When East Meets West

How do cultures connect and collide?

... embracing new traditions has fascinated me for my whole life. I feel that the pull to study this further is largely ... into studying at a Western university. For many years, articles have been published about East Asian students ... resonated with me. However, there were still some niggling questions which I wanted to explore empirically. My ...

only yes is yes

Positive Outcomes of Sexual Harassment?

... with so much research, they open up a whole new range of questions to look into. Firstly, let me sum up what this is ... behaviour that may be interpreted as sexual. Bye-bye sex life and, eventually, mankind! Maybe it would be intuitively ... vignettes to generate more concrete answers to our first questions; does a pro-harassment attitude indicate an ...

Charlotte Birkmanis working with The Naked Scientists

Naked from afar

... I had no idea that these three minutes would change my life. The Naked Scientist himself, Dr Chris Smith, was in the ... UK and Australia, I had Monday to write and polish my news articles from the previous week and find interesting news ... during the call to understand the research and decide what questions to ask during the interview. Tuesday evenings we ...

Lie detector suit

The world's first lie detector suit

... telling the truth. But is it really that simple in real life? How much can our subconscious behaviour really give us ... them when you're just talking to them and ask them random questions - how old they are, where they live and that kind ... some media attention is that I actually have newspaper articles about a research. So, one of the things I want to do ...

Creepy hand

Can we trust Hollywood when it comes to psychopaths?

... Think about how many people you’ve met over your life - statistically, you’re likely to have met a few - ... when making a decision. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/what-psychopath Which makes sense if you think back ...

Bombardier Beetle, Brachininae sp., Orange County, North Carolina, United States. Length 13 mm.

Creationism vs. Science

... is that expecting a theological text to answer scientific questions is no smarter than expecting a scientist to offer ... job description). This rule extends across all walks of life, and we never question it. No one goes to a lawyer for ... Martin Rees's book 'Just Six Numbers' describes how life and the universe can only exist if six fundamental ...

Electron micrograph of an adult male Schistosoma parasite worm. The bar (bottom left) represents a magnification of 0.5mm.

The Hygiene Hypothesis Unraveled

... have been demonstrated as being influenced by real-life infectious organisms. Evidence for the hygiene ... in the United States thinks that the answer to both those questions is a resounding yes, as we'll discuss in the next ... (Distinct from type 2 diabetes, which comes on later in life, is more affected by diet and lifestyle, and is less ...

Whale Shark

How does shark repellent work?

... Brian - Hi, morning, I want to know there's been a lot of articles recently about near-Earth objects impacting Earth ... So is there anything that I can do. Eusebius - I love questions that will stump Chris but he will have a ... about the purpose of crying if anything Chris in terms of life or evolution? Chris - Sure. Well humans are social ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medicine

... clinic, being able to provide second opinions and surface questions which you might not have considered. AI IS SPECIFIC ... we can collect from patterns, from published scientific articles, we can take all that data, and we can build ... internet that would help me search for the origin of life, believe it or not. We couldn't get funding for that on ...