The Naked Scientists Podcast

The latest in solar technology, nerves controlling cancers, wobbles in the Earth's core changing time, and can...

What will be the last organism living on Earth when the Sun swells, a replacement liver grown from stem cells, and the...

Miniature lungs, breasts and other organs can be grown in dishes to reproduce how the tissue develops and how they...

Fungi, close up: why plants can't grow without them, the personal account of a toadstool poisoning victim and...

Extreme Physiology: Everest to the Ocean Floor

Fooling GPS devices to report the wrong locations, pinpointing people in buildings, tracking volcanic dust, and nuclear...

New LEDs and how LED lighting affects health, a new way to fight flu, treating schizophrenia with avatars and 400 year...

This week, how plants keep track of time, viruses spread by sapsuckers, smoke makes fire-sensitive seeds germinate, and...

How are weather forecasts made? Are they accurate, and if not why not? And how do we know when extreme weather is on...

How new flu viruses, including H7N9, arise, and the threat from extensively resistant tuberculosis

We find out how scientists and art conservationists work together to develop new techniques to preserve our cultural...

What are legal highs, and how do scientists, doctors and law-makers keep up with new drugs entering the market?

From the British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy conference 2013, the latest therapies for cystic fibrosis, muscular...

Fossilised dinosaur egg embryos, fish fats on ancient pots, arsenic in beer and the site where Australopithecus sediba...

We take a tour of the Australian precursors to the Square Kilometre Array, and find out how new sensors will improve...

The genetic basis of autism goes under the microscope in this special Easter edition of Naked Genetics, from Kat Arney.

What the future holds for digital data storage, what the Planck probe has revealed, giant squid and what Curiosity...

We celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the epidemiologist John Snow by looking at the historic and modern...

Internet searches give clues to drug side effects, sink holes, flame-retardant DNA and feeding the planet in future...

Research at the extremes: We find out how the Halley VI station was engineered to enable great science and withstand...

New drugs for flu, bees read electrical fields, why moles are sensitive to seismic vibrations and how good is a sharks...

Love is... neurochemistry? This week, we look at love from a scientific perspective...

Earth is due a very near miss next week, so we Analyse Asteroids! We'll meet the companies looking to go...

New research reveals why an infectious cancer that's spreading amongst Tasmanian Devils isn't attacked by...