The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Naked Scientists flagship weekly science show. Science news stories, scientific breakthroughs and interviews with leading scientists...

30 August 2009

Diana and Meera select their favourite bits of Naked Science, including parajetting over the Himalayas, digging up...

23 August 2009

Ben and Dave select their favourite bits of Naked Science this week. From taking an MRI of outer space to orange fruit...

15 August 2009

It's big, it's blue, it's where life began and life certainly wouldn't be the same without it: yes...

09 August 2009

This week, Kat Arney has been through the archives and picked out her personal Naked highlights, including making...

02 August 2009

What happens if you urinate on an electric fence? We find out the answer to this and some of your other science...

26 July 2009

The UK population has chucked out almost 7 million tonnes of rubbish since our last podcast so we're on the case...

19 July 2009

The latest in the science of fertility, IVF and pregnancy... We find out how pre-implantation tests could improve the...

12 July 2009

We seek the Science of Sight on this week's Naked Scientists, discovering how deep sea fish use clever...

05 July 2009

This week, we're taking on your science brainteasers! We find out why toothpaste ruins other flavours, whether...

28 June 2009

This week, we look into new ways of putting a tiger in your tank! We find out how pond life could help make eco-...

21 June 2009

This week we dig into into the science of farming and food production. We find out how transgenic plants can help us...

14 June 2009

On this Naked Scientists Question and Answer show, we discover how storms create slow earthquakes and how a local star...

07 June 2009

This week, we seek the science of Architecture. We find out how rapid prototyping technology could help us print out...

31 May 2009

How does nature inspire technology and engineering? We find out how bamboo may make effective wind turbines and how the...

24 May 2009

Science gets under your skin on this week's Naked Scientists, where we find out how human skin colour evolved to...

17 May 2009

How photosynthesis works underwater, barnacle sex, ozone holes, and bathroom scales to weigh the air!

10 May 2009

This week, we're diving into the science of clean water, finding out why rivers and ponds are essential for...

03 May 2009

On this week's Naked Scientists, we explore the engineering and materials science that will give rise to the...

26 April 2009

In this week's atmospheric Naked Scientists, we're putting the air that we breathe under the microscope. We...

19 April 2009

This week, we find out how a giant parachute could help avoid satellite collisions, why the schizophrenic brain can...

05 April 2009

This special Naked Scientists comes to you from the MTN Sciencentre in Cape Town, South Africa, with some of the...

29 March 2009

This week we hark back to the days before NHS patient records and find out how illnesses in ancient Rome, Victorian...

22 March 2009

This week, we'll strip computer science down to its components and find out what we should expect to see in the...

15 March 2009

Get festive with the Naked Scientists at the Cambridge Science Festival! We sniff out the sizzling science of our food...