Wattage from Waste and Watching Our Water
How can we extract energy from waste? In this week's Naked Scientists we explore the technology that turns muck into methane and consider the fertile issue of nutrient overload resulting from returnin...
4 Maalis 201259min
Can a Mobile Phone Compromise your Sperm Count?
What's the point of earwax? Does WiFi damage the brain? Can a mobile phone in a trouser pocket dent a man's fertility? In this week's science Q and A show we also brush up on how they get the stripes ...
26 Helmi 201259min
ZAP! Lasers on trial...
A new liquid crystal laser that can dial-up any wavelength of light you need, a laser-powered projector technology that turns any surface into a touch-screen, and a laser that fires salvoes of X-rays ...
19 Helmi 201259min
Do Diet Foods Make You Fat?
Could diet foods be making you fatter? How do we learn to like the foods we eat? This week, we indulge in the science of appetite, diet and diabetes. We'll find out how our early experiences of foo...
5 Helmi 20121h
Are any viruses good for you?
Has all the air in the world been breathed before? Are any viruses beneficial to health? Can naked farts transmit diseases? You set the agenda in this Naked Scientists Question and Answer show in w...
29 Tammi 201259min
Vitamin D: Shedding light on diabetes, MS and cancer
Could a ray of sunshine hold the key to preventing MS, diabetes and even bowel cancer? Vitamin D - made naturally in skin exposed to strong sunlight - appears to reduce the risk of developing these, a...
22 Tammi 201259min
Mind Meets Machine
Where do you stand on becoming part person, part machine? This week we hook up with three pioneers in the field of cybernetics including walking cyborg Kevin Warwick, who volunteered his own nervous s...
15 Tammi 20121h 1min
