Polio vaccine and policy probe
In this week's show, we speak to a former navy commander about the Titan sub, do our decision-makers ignore evidence when making scientific policy? And the new telescope that is hoping to explore the ...
23 Kesä 202328min
40 years of HIV
40 years since the identification of HIV, we look at where it came from, and how far are we from an effective vaccine... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
20 Kesä 202328min
Space solar power and fish running fevers
The plan to beam-in solar power from space, ways to incentivise sharing trustworthy material on social media, and do ill fish run a fever like we do? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting th...
16 Kesä 202328min
The science of UFOs
This time, we'll be taking a deep dive into the extra terrestrial...and exploring UFOs. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
13 Kesä 202328min
UK Covid inquiry, AI, and cat contraception
As the UK's Covid inquiry kicks off, will it help to transform how we tackle future pandemics? How an AI is writing its own computer code, speeding up the Internet; and using gene therapy for cat cont...
9 Kesä 202329min
Fossil fever: scientists dig in
Researchers around the world are naming a new kind of dinosaur every week on average at the moment - what's behind this golden age of palaeontology? We talk to scientists, museum staff and amateur fos...
6 Kesä 202328min
Treaties, treatments and time travel
Also in the news, boys vocalise more in their first year, NASA' holds a public meeting on the study of 'unitdentified aeriel phenomena', and what damage might a time traveller cause? Like this podcast...
2 Kesä 202330min
Allergies and how they happen
This week, we're taking a closer look at allergies. What causes them, and what makes them so hard to cure? Along the way we find out what it's like to live with severe allergy, why the body has evolve...
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