Covid Science: Test, Track, Trace
This week, testing, tracing and monitoring. How does a covid test actually work? Do antibodies to covid mean immunity? And the tech to monitor covid symptoms from home. Plus in the news, as lockdowns ...
7 Juli 202059min
Bail Out The Planet
Forget banks, forget airlines - can we bail out the planet? As the world begins to reopen from lockdown, we're asking whether the present 'reset' is a golden opportunity to tackle climate change. Can ...
30 Juni 202059min
Let's Get Quizzical: Summer Science Pub Quiz
This week, lockdown may be easing, but the pubs still haven't flung open their doors yet, so this week, we're bringing a little of the pub to you, with a Naked Scientist Pub Quiz. It's a QnA show with...
23 Juni 202053min
Under Our Feet: What's Inside Earth?
This week, put on your hard hat and steel capped boots: we're journeying to the centre of the earth! From the soil at the surface to the magnetic molten iron at the core, we're delving into what's goi...
16 Juni 20201h
The Fifth State of Matter
Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of some Nobel-prize-winning science: the fifth state of matter, a strange quantum soup known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. What is it, and why is it at the cutting...
9 Juni 202058min
COVID-19: How to Vaccinate a Planet
This week, the search for a vaccine for COVID-19: will we succeed, and when? Plus, in the news, the search for a chemical fingerprint for severe COVID-19, bacteria that live inside cancers, and could ...
2 Juni 202053min
Life in the New Normal
This week, we're asking what will the "new normal" look like? We delve into the future of healthcare, education and transport. Plus in the news, loss of smell is added to the list of coronavirus sympt...
26 Maj 202059min
Publishing & Politics: How Science Gets Made
What's a scientific paper? What's peer review? And when governments say they're "following the science" during this pandemic, what does that actually mean? We're figuring out how science goes from res...
19 Maj 202057min
