DNA frees man after 38 years, and breast cancer breakthrough
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: New DNA evidence helps free a British man after 38 years in prison. Also, Cambridge scientists push up breast cancer survival rates and cut side effects with a...
16 Touko 202536min
Titans of Science: Sarah Parcak
Sarah Parcak was born in Bangor, Maine on the 23rd of November 1978. She attended Bangor High School before reading Egyptology and Archaeology at Yale University. She then studied here in Cambridge un...
13 Touko 202530min
Tough climate future ahead, and self-inflicted snake bites
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: A landmark report that outlines the generational impact of climate change; also, the man bitten by snakes and even injected with venom hundreds of times has pr...
9 Touko 202537min
How fungi shape our world
This episode of The Naked Scientists was brought to you in partnership with the health foundation Wellcome. This week, the first in a two-part series on the hidden world of fungi. What we do - and don...
6 Touko 202533min
Indus River in Kashmir crossfire, and gene-stealing cancers
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: Will - and could - India switch off the water supply to Pakistan amid mounting tensions over Kashmir? Also, how a transmissible canine cancer from 8000 years ...
2 Touko 202535min
Titans of Science: Andrew Pollard
Today's Titan is former chair of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and a key figure in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine which rolled out during the Covid pandemic. Andrew Pollard...
29 Huhti 202532min
Malaria fight in jeopardy, and bone collecting caterpillars
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: World Malaria Day, and why overseas aid cuts in the US are threatening to cause a crisis; the carnivorous caterpillar dubbed the "bone collector" that steals f...
25 Huhti 202536min
Titans of Science: Sara Russell
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, Titans of Science continues with planetary scientist charged with analysing rock samples brought in from outer space, Sara Russell... Like this podcast? Please...
22 Huhti 202531min
