Amazing animals: bats on treadmills, and showering elephants
In this animal-themed edition of the news: What prompted scientists to put vampire bats on a treadmill? Also ahead: why medicinal leeches are returning to the UK's waterways. Plus, the spiders that kn...
22 Nov 202432min
Are we on track to end new infections of HIV?
On today's programme, we are going to examine attempts to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by the end of the decade.The AIDS pandemic is unarguably the worst health threat to confront the popula...
19 Nov 202435min
The stakes at COP29, and the rogue Skynet satellite
This episode of The Naked Scientists: what's at stake at this year's UN climate summit in Azerbaijan? Also, the 80 million-year-old fossil revealing how birds came by their big brains; and why the UK'...
15 Nov 202431min
Can weight loss jabs tackle the obesity pandemic?
In this edition of The Naked Scientists, could weight loss jabs help shrink the size of the global obesity crisis... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
12 Nov 202431min
Pompeii DNA, and a black hole feeding faster than it should
New NICE guidance urges HRT as a first-line treatment for menopause symptoms, the enormous black hole that doesn't obey our existing laws of physics, and what DNA analysis is revealing about the peopl...
8 Nov 202431min
How do we reduce harms to children from smartphones?
Initially, the upside to children having access to a supercomputer in their pockets seemed obvious: immediate access to the reams of educational information on the internet, seamless communications wi...
5 Nov 202431min
Monkeypox in the UK, and the lost Mayan city
In this edition of The Naked Scientists: The UK detects its first case of the new Mpox variant, but some are saying what took us so long; also the discovery of a lost city beneath the jungle canopy in...
1 Nov 202436min
Could technology swing the race for the White House?
The US election between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump is going down to the wire. Indeed, this has been described by many as the closest presidential election eve...
29 Okt 202431min
