Ask the Naked Scientists Podcast
How many organs could you donate and remain alive? How many planet Earths could fit inside the Sun? How high is a giraffe's blood pressure? Why is the sea blue? To find out, Ask The Naked Scientists!
- Website
- http://www.thenakedscientists.com/ask
- Description
- Ask the Naked Scientists: answers to the science questions you always wondered about...
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-19 18:02
- last episode published
- 2024-04-19 01:13
- publication frequency
- 8.38 days
- Contributors
- Dr Chris Smith
- Author Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 711
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Technology Natural Sciences Higher Education Science & Medicine Gadgets
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Episodes
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| 2024-04-19 | Is our perfect total eclipse just a total coincidence? Where do our dreams come from? Can you launch a missile without it being picked up by satellites? Which animals have the best memory? Do humans have any instincts? Can gravity be 1g on a planet wit... |
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| 2024-04-12 | Why did the eclipse move west to east across the Earth? Why are we so interested in nuclear fusion? Could we ever breathe underwater? What is the opposite force to gravity? Would alcohol sterilise a drowning fly? What the difference between cancer and ... |
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| 2024-04-05 | Do animals ever get lost? Do ants count their steps? Could we recreate the greenhouse effect on Mars? Why can you hear some aircraft, but not others? Could we mine the Moon? Is it ever too late to stop somking? Do people with autism have a different br... |
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| 2024-03-22 | Dr Chris answers more listener submitted questions including, Why is South Africa on the bottom of the world map? Why are countries interested in landing on the moon again? How do undersea cables work? What is the Square Kilometre Array? Why are my car... |
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| 2024-03-15 | Chris Smith answers science questions from the public. Does the rate of nail growth differ between men and women? What are the advantages of a nose swab over a mouth swab? What could improve the connectivity of my remote? Accounting for the rotation of... |
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| 2024-03-08 | Do statins affect your Vitamin D production? Why do we have leap years? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Could we live on the moon of Titan? Did COVID come from a lab? What aspects of science can we still now answer? Could popping a pimple on ... |
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| 2024-03-01 | Chris Smith answers another sample of enquiries from across the scientific spectrum: What might have caused my beetle infestation? Why do so many cultures describe an afterlife? What's the medical explanation for 'cracking the seal?' How do lions ident... |
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| 2024-02-23 | What causes the noise in a lightning strike? How do astronauts' bodies change after a long time in space? Can you die of fright? Are we living in the past? Why don't insects get hurt when they fall? Dr Chris Smith and Relebogile Mabotja have all the an... |
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| 2024-02-16 | Why do birds stand on one leg? Which animals can we eat, and which can we not? Does your life flash before your eyes when you die? Does a plug's wiring orientation matter? Why does hearing water make you need the toilet? Does anything travel alongside ... |
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| 2024-02-09 | Dr Chris Smith answers listener questions including, how can we communicate science better? How much distance do we travel through space each second? Why might I feel stomach pain when I'm hungry and I take a cold drink? What causes people to feel slee... |
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