Naked Scientists Special Editions
Special feature podcasts produced by the Naked Scientists team.
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Selective Hearing - 15.05.18
How our ears screen out sounds so that we can ...
How our ears screen out sounds so that we can listen selectively only to those sounds we want to hear - like a friend's voice across a noisy room for instance - has been revealed by scientists in Australia. Gary Housley, from the University of New So...
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Baboon Buddies - 15.05.18
Humans, like all other primates, are a sociable bunch and ...
Humans, like all other primates, are a sociable bunch and we tend to pick friends who are fairly similar to us in terms of education, religion, personality and so on. Now researchers studying a troop of wild Chacma baboons living in Namibia have disc...
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A Study in Scarlet - 15.05.18
Dressing in red around the office might have your colleagues ...
Dressing in red around the office might have your colleagues seeing you in a different light! A new study from Durham University's Robert Barton has found that when the same person is shown wearing a red-coloured top, rather than a blue one, they ten...
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Winter Immune Blues - 15.05.18
The incidence of many diseases, including heart attacks and multiple ...
The incidence of many diseases, including heart attacks and multiple sclerosis, peaks in winter time. Now it looks like this could be an unfortunate throw-back to our prehistoric origins. Cambridge University scientist John Todd has found that the im...
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Choose Your Treatment Wisely - 15.05.18
A campaign to combat "over-treatment" of patients has been announced ...
A campaign to combat "over-treatment" of patients has been announced by doctors' leaders this week. Called "Choosing Wisely", the initiative promotes more open conversations between doctors and patients, rather than an obsessive - and frequently fina...
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Cells Turn Inside-Out - 15.05.15
Plants and animals are incredible constructions, built from the fundamental ...
Plants and animals are incredible constructions, built from the fundamental building blocks of cells. But how are we made? By modelling how algae cells literally turn themselves inside out, researchers are hoping to understand how our own bodies are ...
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Facebook leads to biased views - 15.05.14
Content curation and news filtering by Facebook, as well as ...
Content curation and news filtering by Facebook, as well as other social media websites, likely leads to ideological biases in the information individuals see and read, a new study has shown....
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Males donate competitively - 15.04.24
If you are thinking of raising money for charity, what's ...
If you are thinking of raising money for charity, what's the best way to ensure you hit your fundraising target? According to Nichola Raihani from UCL, you need to be an attractive woman so men will compete with each other to donate the most to your ...
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Modern lifestyles reduce gut bug diversity - 15.04.22
You are not alone! Your body is home to a ...
You are not alone! Your body is home to a whole host of bacteria that live in and on you: your microbiome. You might be slightly repulsed by this idea, but these tiny organisms are really important for our health. There is now growing evidence that ...
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How do we hear time within sounds? - 15.04.21
While you listen to a noise, nerve cells in your ...
While you listen to a noise, nerve cells in your brain are busy processing sound information and helping you make sense it. One big mystery in the world of hearing research has been how we perceive repeated sounds that hit our ears slowly - like the ...
