Tricks of the Mind

Tricks of the Mind

The tricks your mind plays on you are up for analysis this week as we explore the science of taste including why noise diminishes food flavour aboard an aeroplane and how much affects your choice of wine. We also speak to a synaesthete who, quite literally, tastes the people he meets, and we probe the workings of the placebo effect. Plus, pain killers from black mamba venom, why teenagers take risks and the age old chestnut of why names are so hard to remember... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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OCD and balance in the brain

OCD and balance in the brain

Obsessive compulsive disorder - OCD - is a mental health condition where intrusive, unwanted thoughts can become all consuming. Some people report anxieties over something terrible happening to them o...

3 Joulu 202431min

Jab to alleviate asthma attacks, and amber in Antarctica

Jab to alleviate asthma attacks, and amber in Antarctica

In the news, a potentially game-changing new injection to ease the suffering caused by asthma attacks shows success. Also, who should fix the gas leak on the International Space Station? Then, fossili...

29 Marras 202432min

Can nuclear innovation help meet our energy needs?

Can nuclear innovation help meet our energy needs?

In this edition of The Naked Scientists, how much of a part do innovations in nuclear energy production, like SMRs and microreactors, have to play in our nuclear future? Like this podcast? Please help...

26 Marras 202430min

Amazing animals: bats on treadmills, and showering elephants

Amazing animals: bats on treadmills, and showering elephants

In this animal-themed edition of the news: What prompted scientists to put vampire bats on a treadmill? Also ahead: why medicinal leeches are returning to the UK's waterways. Plus, the spiders that kn...

22 Marras 202432min

Are we on track to end new infections of HIV?

Are we on track to end new infections of HIV?

On today's programme, we are going to examine attempts to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by the end of the decade.The AIDS pandemic is unarguably the worst health threat to confront the popula...

19 Marras 202435min

The stakes at COP29, and the rogue Skynet satellite

The stakes at COP29, and the rogue Skynet satellite

This episode of The Naked Scientists: what's at stake at this year's UN climate summit in Azerbaijan? Also, the 80 million-year-old fossil revealing how birds came by their big brains; and why the UK'...

15 Marras 202431min

Can weight loss jabs tackle the obesity pandemic?

Can weight loss jabs tackle the obesity pandemic?

In this edition of The Naked Scientists, could weight loss jabs help shrink the size of the global obesity crisis... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

12 Marras 202431min

Pompeii DNA, and a black hole feeding faster than it should

Pompeii DNA, and a black hole feeding faster than it should

New NICE guidance urges HRT as a first-line treatment for menopause symptoms, the enormous black hole that doesn't obey our existing laws of physics, and what DNA analysis is revealing about the peopl...

8 Marras 202431min

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