We explore how the jet engine evolved to become such an efficient, powerful piece of...
Video Podcasts
Video podcast strands produced by the Naked Scientists.
07 September 2018
Dave Ansell comes into the studio to make some music with balloons
07 September 2018
Watch our summer themed QnA in 360 degrees!
20 July 2018
How does a wing work to generate lift and keep an aeroplane aloft?
12 November 2013
Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system's gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. Now interstellar...
07 October 2013
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of a new fundamental particle, that could be the much...
04 October 2013
What do nerve cells look like, how do they carry information, and how does one nerve connect and communicate with...
20 August 2013
Have a gander at this glorious and glistening material... glass
06 August 2013
This week a wholly wonderful material, wood...
22 July 2013
This week, the seductive and slinky raw material, rubber. We cook up a scientific treat exploring rubber's origins...
16 August 2012
Hydrogen could be a key clean fuel of the future, powering cars, planes and technology. The challenge facing us before...
30 July 2012
Whether you're watching a YouTube video, downloading an email, buying a birthday present or linking up with...
25 May 2012
Fungi are a biologically important, and often overlooked Kingdom of organisms. In this Naked Science Scrapbook we find...
18 May 2012
A lot of the metals we use every day, from car wheels to cutlery, are made from alloys. In this Naked Science Scrapbook...
24 April 2012
Why do we feel tired or awake at the wrong times when we go on holiday to a different timezone? In this Naked Science...
08 March 2012
When companies can't back up their data themselves, they often turn to data centres. But what do they do? In this...
01 March 2012
An autopsy specimen from a 59 year old man known to have cirrhosis of the liver, when his condition began to...
01 March 2012
An autopsy specimen from a 71 year old caucasian woman who had never been pregnant . Seventeen years after her...
01 March 2012
A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...
01 March 2012
(a) A 1905 operative resection specimen from a 30 year old woman admitted for a tumour in the abdomen. She had noted...
01 March 2012
A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man who complained of "passing wind in the urine" for two days. A...
01 March 2012
A 19th century autopsy specimen. No further clinical information available.