Reintroduction: Bringing Species Back

Reintroduction: Bringing Species Back

Last month saw a first in the UK: Bison were released into a woodland in Kent. An animal of this size and nature hasn't be known to be on UK soil for milennia, but now conservationists hope they can act as ecosystem engineers and help protect our woodlands. We explore how the European bison is able to exert such dramatic effects on its environment as well as dive into past reintroduction sucess stories, including the flight of the red kite and the nesting of the dormouse. Plus, we address the potential costs off adding a species into a new space, how learning to live alongside predators may... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Summer Special Q&A Show

Summer Special Q&A Show

This week, do diet foods make children fat? Could a space screw save us from catastrophe collisions? Have we seen the last of the Yangtze river dolphin? And should we look to the Simpsons for our scie...

11 Elo 200757min

Venoms and Toxins - Natures Arsenal

Venoms and Toxins - Natures Arsenal

This week, mind reading children, scientists find a new gene in the lung cancer cocktail, and satnav or map-nav - what's greener? Plus we become biological weapons inspectors and explore nature's arse...

4 Elo 20071h

Naked Science Q&A Show

Naked Science Q&A Show

This week, clean coal technology - how to get the energy from coal without digging it up, why GM goats are helping to combat nerve gas attacks, and how scientists have found the 'itch' gene. We also f...

28 Heinä 200758min

Extreme Survival Show

Extreme Survival Show

This week, we find out about survival in extreme environments. We find out how free divers descend hundreds of feet underwater without air, how life thrives beneath the ice in Antarctica, how fighter ...

21 Heinä 20071h 1min

Fuels of the Future

Fuels of the Future

This week, from iPod to iRod as a man's taste for music turns him into a human lightning conductor, why penguins are picky eaters, and better biopsies - why doctors are attracted to a new magnetic can...

14 Heinä 200759min

The Brain, Epilepsy and Out of Body Experiences

The Brain, Epilepsy and Out of Body Experiences

This week news that men talk as much as women, cosmetics from jellyfish, songbirds "greatest-tits", a breathtaking asthma breakthrough and a gene-screen for bowel cancer. We also uncover the cause of ...

7 Heinä 200759min

Question and Answer Show

Question and Answer Show

This week, playing bingo on an inflatable space station, a new way to attack the cause of Alzheimer's and mending a broken heart with stem cells. Also, using bananas to speed up fruit ripening, leech...

30 Kesä 200759min

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 ...

23 Kesä 200757min

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