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22 October 2014
Like our classrooms, fish tend to have their own place in the school, but what factors decide which fish gets the best...
20 October 2014
Supported by The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Naked Scientists are offering candidates an opportunity to join...
17 October 2014
Our new Naked Scientists App places our news stories, the answers to science questions you always wanted to ask,...
09 October 2014
This week the scientific Nobel prizes have been awarded, just as the Ebola death toll passes 7000.
09 September 2014
With thousands of species going extinct how do we choose which ones to try and save?
21 August 2014
Every chemical reaction on earth, from digesting food to powering a car requires a catalysis. We use man-made catalyses...
24 July 2014
In Dr Shahid's line of work they see plenty of people who get things stuck in their ears, ranging from bugs to...
19 March 2014
What does sleep do to your ability to make new memories? Alice Kay investigates...
22 February 2014
UK Science Minister David Willetts promotes science diplomacy in Chicago...
23 January 2014
In the hearts of forests and jungles around the world there exist members of a feral strain of scientist who grew up on...
20 January 2014
The Polar icecaps are melting, but is the news all bad?
05 January 2014
The tiny plants that inhabit the ocean (phytoplankton) have developed a remarkable mechanism to protect themselves from...
25 December 2013
It is London in the year 2037, and Dmitri is full of surprises from his shadowy relationship with one of the few...
19 December 2013
Chronotherapeutics seeks to align drug treatments with an individual's body clock. The results can be impressive...
12 December 2013
Do you find it harder to learn and adapt to new things than you once did? Do you find you're more forgetful than...
16 September 2013
If a doctor offered you live eggs from a parasitic worm to treat your medical complaints, would you accept? Whipworms...
31 July 2013
Is athletics at high altitude likely to break high-jump records? Can a weight-lifter gain an unfair advantage from a...
25 July 2013
Cutting-edge research in epigenetics - the ways in which the environment can affect the behavior of genes - is changing...
12 July 2013
Can I catch infectious diseases from my dog? And can they catch infections from me?
05 July 2013
With modern computers becoming ever more powerful, they have become an indispensable tool for the design of engineering...
30 April 2013
A genetic screen tells your doctor knows you are at increased risk of getting cancer. You’d want to know, right? Or...
20 April 2013
Chicken eggs can be turned into incubators to produce disease-combating antibodies against human infections...
16 March 2013
Parasitic worms that live in our intestines are currently being tested as medical treatments for diseases such as...
16 October 2012
And has life evolved elsewhere in the Solar System too?