Clock This! - The Science of the Circadian Rhythm

Clock This! - The Science of the Circadian Rhythm

The body clock goes under the Naked Scientists' spotlight this week. We unpick the mechanisms that enable human cells, plants and even bacteria to track the time of day and alter their activities accordingly, and we hear the evidence that night work makes you put on weight and boosts your diabetes risk. In the news, how cells grafted into the eye restore sight to blind mice, the three genes that can convert scar tissue back into beating cardiac muscle following a heart attack, and electrical stimulation that returns movement to limbs paralysed by spinal injury. And on the subject of the body... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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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

Big Data, Big Deal?

Big Data, Big Deal?

More pieces of data have been produced in the last five years than in all of human history put together before then. But what's driving this big data revelation? We'll discover what opportunities it o...

17 Marras 201554min

Do squirrels ever forget where they hid their nuts?

Do squirrels ever forget where they hid their nuts?

The Naked Scientists and some special guests team up to tackle your science questions head-on. Do squirrels ever lose their nuts? Is cracking your knuckles bad for you? And could your gut bugs turn yo...

10 Marras 201549min

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