ARMAGEDDON - Super Volcanoes, Meteorites and Earthquakes

ARMAGEDDON - Super Volcanoes, Meteorites and Earthquakes

This week a rabies-based Trojan Horse that smuggles drugs across the blood-brain barrier, why first-borns are brighter, progress with Parkinson's and a lunar telescope more powerful than Hubble. Plus in this week's ARMAGEDDON-focused show we look at supervolcanes, earthquakes and arsenic, find out why curtains are absolutely lethal and why a meteorite impact probably didn't dispense with the dinosaurs after all. Also, in Kitchen Science, we test the claim that tapping the top of a fizzy drink before you open it stops it spraying all over you... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Capturing Carbon: Beyond Woodland

Capturing Carbon: Beyond Woodland

This week we're taking a deep dive into the world of carbon sequestration and how we can use nature to help us solve climate change. We'll be wading through peat bogs, getting serious about seaweed, a...

31 Elo 202157min

Q&A: Foxes, Physics, and Fluffy Insects

Q&A: Foxes, Physics, and Fluffy Insects

It's Q and A time! Can animals really sense impending dangers like storms and earthquakes? What is the universe expanding into? And how can we prevent the insect apocalypse? We've assembled a panel of...

24 Elo 202153min

Long COVID: What we now know

Long COVID: What we now know

This week, long COVID: we're 18 months into the pandemic and there are thousands of people with long-term health consequences of having caught the infection. We're asking the experts to find out who i...

17 Elo 202155min

Environmental DNA: Seeing the Unseen

Environmental DNA: Seeing the Unseen

This week, we'll be delving into the world of environmental DNA: what did researchers find when they went looking for the Loch Ness monster? Plus, in the news, with an autumn "booster" on the cards, w...

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Electric vehicles: are we nearly there yet?

Electric vehicles: are we nearly there yet?

From collecting cobalt to installing infrastructure, what's the latest on how we're getting ready for the electric vehicle revolution? Plus, in the news, with numbers of COVID cases falling across the...

3 Elo 202158min

Going for Gold: Our Olympic Science Q&A

Going for Gold: Our Olympic Science Q&A

Why are billionaires racing for space? What is the UK's Covid-19 strategy since freedom day? And how will Covid-19 affect the Olympics? This week it's QnA time, and with us to explore where weightless...

27 Heinä 202158min

The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

It's the Royal Society's annual Summer Science Exhibition, but with a digital difference. We go behind the scenes to hear whether bees have favourite flowers, and discover smelly science of your armpi...

20 Heinä 202155min

Psychedelics In Medicine

Psychedelics In Medicine

Are you feeling it? We're taking a hallucinatory trip into the world of psychedelic drugs. These substances are going through a medical renaissance - we'll learn how they work and how they might help ...

13 Heinä 202157min

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