Naked Scientists Special Editions Podcast
Special scientific reports and investigations by the Naked Scientists team
- Website
- http://www.thenakedscientists.com/specials
- Description
- Probing the weird, wacky and spectacular, the Naked Scientists Special Editions are special one-off scientific reports, investigations and interviews on cutting-edge topics by the Naked Scientists team.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-25 04:28
- last episode published
- 2024-12-24 09:54
- publication frequency
- 6.84 days
- Contributors
- Dr Chris Smith
- Owner
- The Naked Scientists
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 978
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Natural Sciences Higher Education Science & Medicine Health & Fitness
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Episodes
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| 2024-12-24 | Personalised medicine and gene screens for disease, why dinosaurs disappeared, planning for droughts, and new vistas in the drylands arena... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists |
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| 2024-12-20 | Predicting how influenza viruses will evolve, how deserts decompose matter despite the dry, what worms are revealing about a gene linked to autism, and what makes mice fearful of cat smells. Dr Chris Smith talks to the authors of the latest leading res... |
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| 2024-11-01 | This month, signs that cancers communicate with the brain to alter mood, why antibodies are unreliable in research, evidence that social training can cut stress and boost brain volume, and agents derived from birth products that suppress inflammation a... |
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| 2024-10-25 | In this episode, why approaches to cancer care need a pro-active approach in future, the opportunities arising for the cancer vaccine space, competency-based medical training, the environmental costs of losing large animals, and why water resilience ne... |
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| 2024-09-10 | This month, Chris Smith hears how blood-thirsty bacteria sniff out wounds to trigger infections, how ants navigate at night, how male and female brains respond differently to starvation, and inflammation linked to premature labour... Like this podcast?... |
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| 2024-07-31 | This month, evidence that the microbiome is controlling blood pressure - so will we treat hypertension with probiotics in future? Also, plastic is everywhere and an urgent environmental threat, but is the public aware, or do they care? We also consider... |
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| 2024-04-19 | This month, how animals hibernate and evidence that muscle myosin makes its own heat in the cold, brain scans to reveal how ketamine relieves resistant depression, the way the brain changes when animals build a bond, the evolution of flu outbreaks, and... |
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| 2024-04-02 | A problem that's been puzzling scientists for decades is the way our bodies recognise cold stimuli, and researchers at the University of Michigan have finally got to the bottom of it. They've identified the protein GluK2 acts as a sensor in our bodies ... |
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| 2024-03-08 | This month we hear what orangutans can tell us about the origins of human speech, we ask if science making life even harder for dyslexics, where do the scientists we train end up and do they stay in science, and new insights into the songs whales sing ... |
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| 2024-02-14 |
Making waves about coastline conservation, and plastic waste This month the connections that human inhabitants have to the coast, why we're still in the middle of a worsening extinction crisis despite international laws and treaties designed to protect nature, the promise of pharmacogenomics and personalised med... |
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