The Brain Uncovered: Naked Neuroscience

The Brain Uncovered: Naked Neuroscience

How nerve cells make decisions, how genes control behaviour, using light to interrogate neuronal circuits, anxiety attacks, deep brain stimulation to bust addiction, how the immune system can cause psychosis, the genetics of behavioural problems and hallucinogenic flashbacks: fact, or a mind playing tricks on you? This week we launch Naked Neuroscience, a new monthly podcast to open your mind... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Why do we have pubic hair?

Why do we have pubic hair?

In this week's podcast, we're taking on your questions! From how we make decisions to why do we go temporarily deaf when we yawn and if light wears out, these are some of the many conundrums you asked...

12 Tammi 201653min

Do You Have Skinny Genes?

Do You Have Skinny Genes?

With the New Year, there's often a resolution or two to make a new you. But what makes you, you? Given that we share over 99.9% of our genes with each other, there's a lot of variety in that 0.01%. Ju...

5 Tammi 201657min

Top Scientific Moments of 2015

Top Scientific Moments of 2015

Remember that time that Ginny made Kat eat chocolate spread from a nappy? Or when Georgia broke the drone? It's the end of 2015 and what a year it's been for science! Whilst Chris and Kat take a well ...

29 Joulu 201559min

Cracking the science of Christmas

Cracking the science of Christmas

The Naked Scientists have Christmas unwrapped with a look at the science behind our favourite festive traditions, including how to pick the perfect present, the psychology behind board games and how t...

22 Joulu 201554min

Dishing the Dirt on our Soils

Dishing the Dirt on our Soils

This month, the United Nations published its much-anticipated report on the state of the world's soils and the results are not good. We'll be asking why, and taking a down-to-earth look at the consequ...

15 Joulu 201556min

Music Technology: Do or Die?

Music Technology: Do or Die?

How will you be receiving your presents this year - a CD, a voucher for iTunes or maybe even a Spotify membership? In 2014, streaming services made more money than CD sales for the first time ever and...

8 Joulu 201554min

Fighting Floods: Who Gets Hit?

Fighting Floods: Who Gets Hit?

Extreme weather events are becoming more common, and sea levels are set to rise. So could we be about to find ourselves in very deep water? This week we're exploring how to spot where and when floods ...

1 Joulu 201556min

Sugar Tax: Answer to Obesity?

Sugar Tax: Answer to Obesity?

This week, is sugar the enemy? Difficult as it is to digest, one person in every four in the UK is obese, and treating the condition as well as its knock-on effects, costs the health service 5.1 billi...

24 Marras 201554min

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