The Naked Scientists Podcast

We step inside the multidimensional world of the computer games industry...

Why do humans have rhythm? Do you sneeze in your sleep? Why do crabs walk sideways?

Can we live forever? We look at the latest breakthroughs that could make us immortal...

Eggs, chickens and chocolate abound in this Easter special.

From crime scene to court room, how is science used to solve crimes?

Are psychosis, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression down to abnormal immune responses?

Why Newton stuck a needle in his eye, how the brain sees and echoes of the Big Bang...

What parasites are living in and on you, and the tricks these invaders play on their hosts

Archimedes shouting Eureka, Isaac Newton's apples, Volta's piles and singing planets...

Unrolling the sometimes conflicting stories about the dangers and benefits of cannabis.

How and where your phone is leaking your personal information to and how to stop it...

We hack online dating, maximise first date potential and use maths to minimise divorce...

How does our microbiome keep us healthy?

What are plastics, why they don't break down and how to grow plastics on trees...

Why we sleep talk, how to lucid dream and what happens when sleep goes wrong...

Why are humans so prone to gaining weight and can science help us out of this mess?

Dissolving teaspoons, plants sunbathing, halting multiple sclerosis and Antarctic warming.

What's it like to hear voices that no one else hears?

The psychology behind the best roast, how to cure your hangover and the science of singing

What wiped out the dinosaurs and are we next?

What exactly is sound, and how do we hear it?

We untangle the good, the bad and the ugly side of the Internet...

We build bombs, put sniffer dogs to the test and see if 'robocops' will patrol airports..

Where did Ebola come from, and why now? We talk to the people on the ground to find out...