Beyond the Universe - Multiverses and More

Beyond the Universe - Multiverses and More

This week, we find out what lies beyond the limits of our Universe as we discuss multiverses, higher dimensions, string theory and supersymmetry. We find out how these ideas develop from basic principles and how the LHC can help to confirm, or refute, their existence. In the news, how quartz creates mountain ranges, progesterone excites sperm, and why birds can't help but fly into things. Plus, Meera and Dave find out how to engineer electrons to travel close to the speed of light, and Simon Singh explains how to discover the distance to a far away star. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Antidepressants: the ongoing debate

Antidepressants: the ongoing debate

We'll be exploring depression, what causes it, and whether antidepressants or other treatments hold the key to solving it. Amongst our guests is psychologist Gordon Harold, speaking on how depression ...

18 Jul 202329min

Feeling the heat and hearing the silence

Feeling the heat and hearing the silence

The mercury rises as record temperatures are recorded across the world. But what's driving them? Also ahead: the sound of silence. We'll be finding out why scientists think it's not just the absence o...

14 Jul 202327min

Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs

Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs

It's a Question and Answer special this week. You supply the questions and we pose them to a panel of expert guests. Joining us this time, biologist and author Tom Ireland, marine scientist Liberty De...

11 Jul 20231h

The fight to save the oceans

The fight to save the oceans

This week, we're diving into the fight to save the planet's oceans. We're looking at how humans are responsible for the effects on our planet's oceans, but also perhaps lesser known strategies that ar...

4 Jul 202330min

AI cancer scans, and heatproof drone plans

AI cancer scans, and heatproof drone plans

How an artificial-intelligence technology from Cambridge is helping cut cancer treatment waiting times, how the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding new light on the chemical building blocks of life...

30 Jun 202331min

Light pollution: time to flick the switch

Light pollution: time to flick the switch

Many people don't recognise light pollution at night for what it is: pollution. Largely, we fail to see this harmful introduction into the environment because we have been conditioned to associated li...

27 Jun 202331min

Polio vaccine and policy probe

Polio vaccine and policy probe

In this week's show, we speak to a former navy commander about the Titan sub, do our decision-makers ignore evidence when making scientific policy? And the new telescope that is hoping to explore the ...

23 Jun 202328min

40 years of HIV

40 years of HIV

40 years since the identification of HIV, we look at where it came from, and how far are we from an effective vaccine... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

20 Jun 202328min

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