The Naked Scientists Podcast

Fruit flies, arm hair and video games tackle the most significant threat to our generation

We investigate how scientists are designing new ways to preserve vaccines, probiotic bacteria, enzymes in washing...

Making brainwaves: how the baby brain develops, how the teenage mind differs and ways to improve your memory...

In a special ethics show, we discuss how we decide which drugs our health services can afford and what are the limits...

Can nature's recyclers, bacteria and fungi, help us clean up man-made environmental problems from oil spills to...

How will power grids be transformed? We look at technology to reduce our energy prices and new ways to include wind and...

In front of a live audience at the Cambridge Science Centre, Chris Smith is joined by three paleontologists to discuss...

With the demand for new homes ever increasing, we ask what will the buildings of the future be like?

In a special show from Cambridge and New Zealand, Hannah Critchlow investigates the research into Huntington's...

In this Q & A special the Naked Scientists get stuck into your queries, like why are planets round? and why do we...

Bigger, better and longer lasting: this week we go in search of the battery technology that will power the future...

How handedness spans the scientific world, from the smallest particles in the Universe to drugs that cure disease...

2014 is the Year of Code, but why has coding, and getting kids into computer science become so important?

... against the combined brain power of the Naked Scientists, in this National Science Week Question and Answer Special...

With climate change expected to bring drought and floods, we look at the management strategies which could tackle this...

The team discuss robots including the ExoMars Rover, lab robots and voice recognition systems like Siri...

Norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, affects 1 million people each year in the UK. But what is it, and how can you best...

Should you raise your baby to be bilingual? Are video games rotting or rejuvenating children's brains? We find out!

Do scientists resort to propaganda to defend climate change? How do we deal with evolution unbelievers? How do we...

We're chewing over the topic of food footprints: How green is your lunchbox? What's the environmental impact...

How are objects smaller than the wavelength of light making such large waves in the fields of health, optics, and...

Live on location at the Cambridge Science Centre, the team answer questions like, is watching the Exorcist a...

Why is the UK investing in space weather forecasts, does the Sun cause climate change and how can solar storms affect...

Have you stuck to your New Year's Resolutions? We investigate the psychology of willpower and how long it takes to...