DNA-away Disease: Gene Therapy at Work

DNA-away Disease: Gene Therapy at Work

Two pioneers in the field of gene therapy join us to discuss how they're developing modified viruses to deliver healthy copies of genes to save patients afflicted by lethal genetic diseases. We also hear how energy can be harvested from footsteps and heartbeats to power nanodevices, and how a new SWARM of satellites is about to be deployed to study the Earth's magnetic field from space. Plus, in the news, how "ums" and "ahs" can boost a baby's learning power, how mankind talked his way out of Africa and how scientists are recreating schizophrenia in a Petri dish... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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What's Inside Your Computer?

What's Inside Your Computer?

This week - we use them everyday - at work, at home, to chat to our friends or listen to music - but how do computers actually work, what's inside them, and what will the computers of tomorrow look li...

13 Maalis 201854min

Before they're Gone: Fighting the Illegal Wildlife Trade

Before they're Gone: Fighting the Illegal Wildlife Trade

It's one of the largest criminal industries in the world, worth billions and responsible for thousands of murders, but can we win the fight against the illegal wildlife trade? We speak to the foot sol...

6 Maalis 20181h

What The Heck Is Xenobiology?

What The Heck Is Xenobiology?

The Naked Scientists meet the biologists who are inventing a new form of genetic information: this strange science is called xenobiology. Plus, in the news, a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer, ...

27 Helmi 201856min

How High Can We Build?

How High Can We Build?

This week, we put your questions to our expert panel of scientists - What's the tallest possible building? Do female animals flirt? And what can we do if an asteroid ends up heading for earth? Like th...

20 Helmi 201857min

The Art of Science

The Art of Science

The Naked Scientists ditch the lab coats for artistic overalls. From coding musical compositions to the jeans that remove air-pollution, we take a look at how art has helped science. Plus, in the news...

13 Helmi 201856min

Turning the Tide on Plastics

Turning the Tide on Plastics

This week, The Naked Scientists probe the plastic problem: can science help turn the tide on our rising consumption? Plus, the killer whale that can talk, and some groundbreaking research reveals why ...

6 Helmi 201855min

Why Bother Being Nice?

Why Bother Being Nice?

This week, we're asking would you risk your life to save someone else? Plenty of people do, and so do other animals and even bacteria. But why? And how did altruistic actions like this evolve? Plus in...

30 Tammi 201855min

James Webb: Gazing at Early Galaxies

James Webb: Gazing at Early Galaxies

This week, how astronomers are planning to see the beginning of our Universe: we talk to the team behind the telescope that's about to be blasted into deep space to make it happen. Plus, scientists an...

23 Tammi 201856min

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