COVID variant vaccines, and sinking antimatter
In this episode of The Naked Scientists, A future proof covid jab that combats variants that don't even exist yet. Reassuringly for theoretical physics, signs that antimatter does obey the rules of gr...
29 Sep 202327min
Titans of Science: Robert Winston
This week's guest is a pioneer of IVF, award-winning broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords, Robert Winston. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
26 Sep 202332min
Spinal injury repair, and embryo editing ethics
This week on The Naked Scientists: A breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries, worrying news about red fire ants in Sicily, we look at what it means for us in the UK. Plus, NASA is sending a samp...
22 Sep 202331min
Titans of Science: Anthony Fauci
Time for the next installment in Titans of Science! This week's very special guest is the former chief medical advisor to the White House during the pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci. He tells Chris Smith hi...
19 Sep 202330min
Ban on cheap vapes, and farewell to Dolly's 'father'
On the news pod, we ask whether an outright ban is the best way to deal with the health and environmental cost of sweet shop style vapes. Also on the programme; a new device for detecting Covid on pat...
15 Sep 202330min
Titans of Science: Helen Sharman - part 2
Part 2 of the extraordinary story of the first Briton in space. What was life like on a space station? How do you get back down? and what do you do afterwards? Like this podcast? Please help us by sup...
12 Sep 202329min
Concrete concerns, and pharaoh de toilette
In this edition, can civil engineers help rescue the UK's crumbling schools and hospitals? Also, new initiative that is hoping to improve the treatment of sepsis, and how the scent of ancient Egypt ha...
8 Sep 202331min
Titans of science: Helen Sharman - part 1
Today's guest is Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space. Our conversation ranges from her early beginnings working in a chocolate factory - Mars, would you believe - to her run in with the then lead...
5 Sep 202330min
