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22 August 2011
We discover diamonds in candle flames in this week's Naked Scientists NewsFlash, but sadly, only a few atoms...
21 August 2011
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the "plane". Or so the saying goes, but new research has confirmed...
21 August 2011
We explore how the jet engine evolved to become such an efficient, powerful piece of technology, from the early designs...
19 August 2011
Where and in what volume is mucus made in the body? Why do bums look darker that skin elsewhere on the body? How does...
18 August 2011
Glucose podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
17 August 2011
This month, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen explores human empathy and explains what empathy is, how it differs amongst the...
15 August 2011
Do bubbles act like insulation on the surface of your bath?& Will it prevent the need for that toe-burning hot...
15 August 2011
In this NewsFlash, we meet the deep-sea microbes that feed on the hydrogen from hydrothermal vents, and discover a...
14 August 2011
Are designer molecules poised to take us into a new chemical dimension?& This week, we explore how, long before the...
14 August 2011
David Compton from Industrial Chemicals Ltd explains the conditions, materials and equipment needed to make tonnes of a...
12 August 2011
What makes the eye's pupils change size? Does scratching a coin make a machine more likely to accept it? Why does...
12 August 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how scientists are using fish scales to figure out why the UK salmon population...
12 August 2011
Why are some people short sighted and some people long sighted? And how do we use something more usually associated...
11 August 2011
Naked Oceans has reached its& 1st birthday and we celebrate by taking& a look back at season one to pick&...
10 August 2011
Rubber podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
08 August 2011
Why is it, that when you take photos of footprints in sand, they can sometimes appear raised? We tackle this holiday...
08 August 2011
We'll find out how vampire bats home in on hot blood in this week's& NewsFlash!& Also, we explore the...
07 August 2011
Do bubbles help or hinder when doing the dishes? Can we find evidence of material from Earth on the Moon? Can camera...
05 August 2011
NASA announce signs of running water on Mars and scientists turn skin cells into brain cells. Plus the answers to why...
03 August 2011
Dimethylmercury podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
01 August 2011
An incidental finding at autopsy on a man of 70, a hypertensive subject who collapsed and died of heart failure at home...
01 August 2011
A 1927 autopsy specimen from a stillborn foetus. Mother was a primagravida and the stillbirth occurred after an...
01 August 2011
A 1911 autopsy specimen from a man aged 40 years, who was admitted under Dr. Shaw for pain in the left loin. He had had...
01 August 2011
A 1911 autopsy specimen from a man aged 40 years, who was admitted under Dr. Shaw for pain in the left loin. He had had...