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25 August 2021
05 June 2020
Cheaper, lighter, and more energy-dense: the future of batteries?
03 June 2020
On the deck of the Bliss, beyond the reach of cellphone coverage, I sailed into my life before the Internet...
22 May 2020
How does an electric vehicle battery actually work?
12 May 2020
The NHS contact tracing app has arrived, and is causing controversy...
02 April 2020
Megan McGregor's internship with The Naked Scientists
19 February 2020
I study polymers, and how they work...
13 January 2020
You don’t need to be naked, but the science does…
08 January 2020
Avalanches are deadly dangerous, but there are ways to avoid them...
23 December 2019
You are free to choose what you eat, but you are not free of the consequences
05 November 2019
The team get inside the industry, and hear about and test-drive the latest top video games releases...
23 October 2019
Data science; a profession, a discipline? But what actually is it
21 October 2019
Planning to get in shape with a diet? Research suggests this can actually make matters worse...
18 October 2019
People raised in cities, with less animal contact and a narrow range of microbial exposures, are more prone to health...
22 September 2019
An insight into my 8-week internship with the Naked Scientists.
04 September 2019
Not everybody thinks harassment is a bad thing - here's the who, the why, and the what to do about it
28 August 2019
‘Reverse fridges’ and insulated walls – how to make a house carbon neutral...
14 August 2019
Excerpt from Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World
30 July 2019
Why eschewing tech may be good for mental well-being...
19 July 2019
Is our reality a computer simulation?
02 May 2019
Chemist Jenny Gracie shares what she learned over 8 weeks with the Naked Scientists...
23 April 2019
Individual differences and interpreting online behaviour: harassment or over-sensitivity?