The Year in Astronomy
This week, we look back over the last few months of space science. We'll hear how scientists search for planets in the glare of their parent star, why a simulated mission to Mars will help us to unde...
23 Jul 201159min
Digging up the Year in Archaeology
This week we take a look back at a year's-worth of Naked Archaeology including a dig through some Pomepiian poo for clues about the Pompeiian lifestyle, the art of spear throwing with an atlatl and ex...
16 Jul 201159min
Bouncing Bombs and Blacksmiths
This week, we bring you the best bits of technology from the world of engineering including a guiding light into the workings of a retroreflector, the dual life of bi-stable structures, and a new way...
9 Jul 201159min
Pushing Back the Pain Barrier
This week, we explore the problem of persistent pain. We find out how chronic pain is currently treated, and look to our DNA for the genetic clues that could lead to future painkillers. In the news...
25 Jun 20111h 1min
Coal Gasification and Carbon Capture
This week, we find out how to get useful gas from useless coal, and make money from waste carbon dioxide! Underground coal gasification could allow us to access huge amounts of energy in inaccessible...
18 Jun 201155min
Passengers in a Bacterial Body
The good side of microbes goes under the microscope this week as we explore how the 100 trillion bacteria that thrive on us and in us, and even outnumber our own cells ten times over, work with the bo...
11 Jun 20111h 2min
Do My Eyes have Anti-Shake Vision?
What would we see at the edge of the universe? Are there long term health effects of eating spicy food? Why doesn't diesel need a spark to ignite? It's another Naked Scientists science question and an...
4 Jun 20111h 3min
Metallurgy - Metals at the Molecular Scale
What happens when a blacksmith meets a metallurgist? This week we explore what's happening at the molecular scale when the smithy works a piece of iron, we meet the superalloys that survive temperatur...
28 Mai 201158min
