Are any viruses good for you?

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 which we also discover how Inuit cope without fruit and veg, whether muscles can become cancerous and how long before we can teleport to work. Plus, reproducing Alzheimer's disease in a dish, self-distilling vodka, magnetic soap to cleanse the parts other soaps can't reach, and what magic mushrooms do to the brain... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Titans of Science: Geoff Hinton

Titans of Science: Geoff Hinton

This episode of The Naked Scientists marks the return of a brand news series of Titans of Science, where some of the movers and shakers of the scientific and technological world help us to unpick a bi...

25 Kesä 202433min

E. coli outbreaks, and sniffing the air for DNA

E. coli outbreaks, and sniffing the air for DNA

This episode of The Naked Scientists: How scientists are getting to grips with the UK's E. coli outbreak. Lettuce leaves look like the source, but how? Also, how atomic bomb tests have helped us build...

21 Kesä 202430min

The trials and tribulations of trees

The trials and tribulations of trees

This week on The Naked Scientists, we're taking a look at trees. We look at how they communicate, the diseases they are fighting, and how beneficial to the climate planting trees really is... Like thi...

18 Kesä 202430min

Lab-grown Crohn's mini-guts, and is the Universe a doughnut?

Lab-grown Crohn's mini-guts, and is the Universe a doughnut?

In this edition of The Naked Scientists, Could lab-grown 'mini-guts' help us crack Crohn's disease? Also, is the Universe organised like a bagel? I talk to one cosmologist trying to figure it out. An...

14 Kesä 202435min

Gambling addiction: Hidden harms

Gambling addiction: Hidden harms

This time, we're looking at gambling addiction and the associated harms. We hear from Bianca, a recovering gambling addict, about the deceit which characterised her experiences with betting, and why t...

11 Kesä 202430min

Motor neurone disease, and a gut microbe-brewery

Motor neurone disease, and a gut microbe-brewery

In the news this week, after the death of rugby legend Rob Burrow, we explore the mechanisms of motor neurone disease with John Ealing from the Manchester MND Care Centre. Also, we hear from Alexander...

7 Kesä 202432min

Dark matter and dark energy: mapping the dark universe

Dark matter and dark energy: mapping the dark universe

This week on The Naked Scientists, we are looking at attempts to map the dark universe. As the new space telescope Euclid seeks to unlock the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, we ask why their...

4 Kesä 202431min

GM mosquitoes fight malaria, and robot digit gets thumbs up

GM mosquitoes fight malaria, and robot digit gets thumbs up

This episode of The Naked Scientists: The genetically engineered mosquitoes released to fight malaria in Africa; how fake news skews public opinion, and who is behind it; and, finding out what it's li...

31 Touko 202436min

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