Catching Up with Cancer

Catching Up with Cancer

We catch up with the latest on cancer this week including an update from the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Birmingham. We hear how computers are helping doctors to read mammograms, how researchers are re-programming the immune system to attack tumours, and we get the low down on the new vaccine against cervical cancer. We also discover how blood cells can be used as a Trojan horse to sneak-in chemicals to boost the power of body scans, what a fossil form of HIV can tell us about the origin of AIDS, and how beetles create their own antibiotics. Plus, in kitchen science, Ben... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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The Power of Vaccines

The Power of Vaccines

This week we're putting on our swimsuits and diving deep into the choppy waters of the world of vaccines, how do they help us, and why are people becoming so hesitant to get them. Plus in the new...

20 Touko 201959min

Why does dark matter matter?

Why does dark matter matter?

This week - the mysterious stuff that's passing through you right now, and it literally holds the galaxy together... but we have no idea what it is. We talk to the scientists trying to find out. Plus ...

13 Touko 201957min

That May Q&A!

That May Q&A!

It's Q&A time: We've got a panel of scientists ready and waiting to tackle the questions you've been sending in. Izzie Clarke was joined by plant ecologist Howard Giffiths, chemist and writer Kit Chap...

6 Touko 201959min

Vets Beyond Pets

Vets Beyond Pets

This week; horse racing, equine flu, a hedgehog hospital and a trip to the local zoo - we're looking at how vets keep animals healthy and why that's good news for humans too. Plus, how a dose of caffe...

29 Huhti 201955min

Naked at Edinburgh Science Festival!

Naked at Edinburgh Science Festival!

Chris Smith and Adam Murphy head to Edinburgh Science Festival to bring you the best - and the bizarre - from the wonderful world of science. Joining them are Chris Johnson, Head of Computer Science a...

22 Huhti 201955min

Cooking with a Conscience

Cooking with a Conscience

This week a Naked Scientists exclusive: we're putting a brand new type of oven to the test - can it really, as the inventors claim - roast a raw chicken in 35 minutes? Plus, the brave scientists who'v...

15 Huhti 201959min

Q&A Space Surgery in Scotland

Q&A Space Surgery in Scotland

It's time for our Q&A, this time from Edinburgh! This week, what happens if you get pregant in space? How do chemists make new molecules? And how do antidepressants work? Chris Smith is joined by our ...

8 Huhti 201950min

Modelling and Microbes: Science of Birth

Modelling and Microbes: Science of Birth

Spring has officially sprung! There are newborn lambs prancing around in the fields in the UK, and we've recently celebrated Mothering Sunday. To celebrate, we're taking a trip down the road of pregna...

1 Huhti 201959min

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