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10 October 2023
17 October 2010
We make our way to some of the least accessible bits of heritage this month: Naked Scientist Laura Soul treks to Machu...
15 October 2010
This week we hear how scientists at the CSIR in South Africa are helping model and develop more accurate aeroplanes to...
15 October 2010
This week Dr Chris discusses how volcanoes can cut global warming, the evidence for genes linked to race, whether...
15 October 2010
Scientists know that fluffy stratocumulus clouds act like a blanket on the Earth - they stop warm air escaping, but...
13 October 2010
Cisplatin podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
12 October 2010
The world's first Census of Marine Life draws to a climax after ten years of amazing ocean discoveries.
12 October 2010
Sixty percent of all HIV sufferers in the world live in rural Africa, but practical and economic obstacles can prevent...
11 October 2010
With efforts to improve energy efficiency focussed on green transport to sustainable power generation, growing your own...
11 October 2010
The moon and its fickle phases are analysed in this week's question. Does someone in Australia see the same full...
11 October 2010
In this week's NewsFlash, we'll hear how the Census of Marine Life found that the oceans are much more...
10 October 2010
How do advertisers get inside your head? This week we explore the field of neuromarketing - how a knowledge of your...
08 October 2010
Are fat cells all made equal, why women glow while men perspire, the science of electromagnetic induction, what is...
08 October 2010
Scientists recently found plastics floating in some of the most remote and inaccessible seas in the world - just off...
08 October 2010
How do supermarkets convince you to part with your money? In this special edition of the Naked Scientists, Smitha...
08 October 2010
This week we discover a plant indigenous to South Africa that is being used to create stress-relieving drugs worldwide...
07 October 2010
This is a podcast by the Society for General Microbiology, recorded at a session they sponsored, at the 2010 Times...
06 October 2010
Carbon dioxide podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
05 October 2010
British Geological Survey scientists have completed the first full geological survey of Lake Windermere in the English...
04 October 2010
The quest is on to find out how something can appear to roll up a hill, rather than down.
04 October 2010
It's a bumper crop of "firsts" in this NewsFlash, as we discover the first habitable exoplanet and the...
03 October 2010
Why do you see flashes and patterns when you press your eyeballs? Would an antimatter magnet attract normal matter...
01 October 2010
This week, we hear about a clinical trial in Kenya that could offer hope for a vaccination against Tuberculosis. We...
01 October 2010
Where does the waste from an aeroplane toilet go? And could you ever really get stuck to one when pressing the flush?...
01 October 2010
What do we know about earthquakes? And can we predict when they might occur? A special event was held to discuss these...