Naked Scientists Special Editions
Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
Visit Show Website http://www.thenakedscientists.co...Recently Aired
-
HD
Man-made salt marshes, ground heat, storms - 12.10.19
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why salt marshes ...
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why salt marshes are so important, but are difficult to recreate; how storms are made; and why the ground beneath our feet could provide decades of natural heating....
-
HD
Sir John Gurdon, Nobel Laureate - 12.10.13
Sir John Gurdon, from Cambridge University, talks to Chris Smith ...
Sir John Gurdon, from Cambridge University, talks to Chris Smith about the set of experiments that resulted in the award on the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine....
-
HD
Future-proofing forests, noisy gannets, Antarctica - 12.10.03
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: the steps scientists ...
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: the steps scientists are taking to make sure the trees we plant today can cope with tomorrow's warmer climate; tracking gannets to find out how environmental change might affect them; and a tropical Antarctica....
-
HD
Forecasting solar storms, fish personalities - 12.09.18
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why accurately forecasting ...
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why accurately forecasting solar storms is becoming increasingly important; and how understanding how fish shoal could interest economists....
-
HD
Entering the Infra-Red Zone - 12.09.10
This month, discover how seeing red can help restore works ...
This month, discover how seeing red can help restore works of art and probe the origins of cancer. We delve into the world of Infra-red spectroscopy to reveal the creation and preservation of ancient pieces of art and the building techniques of ancie...
-
HD
BSF 2012 - Subglacial Lakes & Food on the Brain - 12.09.07
In the final of our special series of programmes from ...
In the final of our special series of programmes from the British Science Festival, we find out how researchers will be drilling through over 3 kilometres of ice to find out what's hiding in subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Plus, how a high fat diet may a...
-
HD
BSF 2012 - Finding Higgs and Mining Heat - 12.09.06
In this special edition of the Naked Scientists from the ...
In this special edition of the Naked Scientists from the British Science Festival, we get the latest news from the Large Hadron Collider, including their scientific shopping list, and find out how heat pumps could extract household heatin...
-
HD
BSF 2012 - Seeing through Clothes and Water Voles - 12.09.05
In the second special programme from the British Science Festival ...
In the second special programme from the British Science Festival in Aberdeen, we discover the technology for seeing through your clothes and find out why "Lonely heart" teenage water voles can save whole populations. Plus, we discover why NASA is r...
-
HD
Monitoring your Mobile Phone - 12.09.04
With 40% of adults in the UK now using smartphones, ...
With 40% of adults in the UK now using smartphones, and similar figures worldwide, we discover how easy it is to track and profile peoples' movements using information given away in public by their mobile phones. We learn how hackers can use your pho...
-
HD
Early tetrapods, upland rivers, North Anatolian Fault - 12.09.04
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: what the first ...
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: what the first creatures to walk on land looked like; the connection between the biodiversity of upland rivers and the ecosystem services they provide; and in an audio diary from Turkey, a University of Leeds r...
