Human Milk

Human Milk

Human milk is the special subject we're looking into this week, including how the cells it contains can jump into a baby's bloodstream - and literally make mum part of their offspring. We hear how biotechnology is aiming to produce human milk in the lab as an improved alternative to formula, and how donated human milk is helping sick babies, parents in need and cancer research. Plus, we dive into why online sales of human breast milk are on the rise due to a slightly surprising consumer group... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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How Cancers Form, Cancer Biology and Future Therapies

How Cancers Form, Cancer Biology and Future Therapies

Cancer biology goes under the microscope this week, as Gerard Evan talks about the causes of cancer and how cancer spreads around the body. Also on the show, and joining us live from the National Canc...

7 Loka 200654min

Naked Science Question and Answer and New Horizons

Naked Science Question and Answer and New Horizons

Answering all your cosmic conundrums this week are Drs Chris, Dave and Phil who discuss why blood is red, the size of the ozone hole, how to make magnets, the best way to get rid of excess mucus, and...

30 Syys 200656min

Catalysts for Cleaner Environments and Future Energy

Catalysts for Cleaner Environments and Future Energy

Chemistry and lightning quick reactions are under discussion this week as Emma Schofield explains what a catalyst is, how catalytic converters work and how catalysts can help to clean up the atmospher...

23 Syys 200657min

Peruvian Mummies, Ancient Environments and the Sahara

Peruvian Mummies, Ancient Environments and the Sahara

Explaining how science can help us dig up the past is Lawrence Owens, who uses teeth and bones to uncover the life and sometimes gruesome death of mummies in Peru and Bolivia, and Harriet Allen descri...

16 Syys 200655min

Hot Nectar, Warming Weather and Birds Missing the Spring

Hot Nectar, Warming Weather and Birds Missing the Spring

In the hot seat this week is Beverley Glover, who will describe how flowers warm their nectar to entice passing pollinators, real life weatherman John Law discusses weather predictions and how to calc...

9 Syys 200659min

Naked Science Question and Answer

Naked Science Question and Answer

The Naked Scientists are back to answer all your burning science questions. Dr Chris, Dave and Helen tackle hot flushes, why spiders love living in our houses, how many stars are in the Milky Way, and...

2 Syys 200654min

Naked Science Question and Answer

Naked Science Question and Answer

In our last show before the summer, Dr Chris, Dave and Derek answer all your questions on science, technology and medicine including why paintings fade in sunlight, why body hair grows at different ra...

5 Elo 200657min

Crowd Control, Football Hooligans and Singing Mosquitoes

Crowd Control, Football Hooligans and Singing Mosquitoes

I predict a riot... or not. This week we're joined by crowd control experts Dr Clifford Stott, from Liverpool University, and Dr John Drury, from Sussex University, wholl be discussing why violence ki...

29 Heinä 200656min

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