Conflict in Conservation

Conflict in Conservation

Would you care about conserving an animal if it threatened your job, your food supply or even your life? This week, we unpick the hidden conflicts and controversies inside conservation, including the tragic fight to save the mountain gorillas, how to tackle poaching smartly and the lions who live in harmony with people. Plus, news of how engineers solved a medical dilemma and a look back at one of the world's greatest mathematical geniuses. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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What is mirror life?

What is mirror life?

We're taking you through the looking glass to explore 'mirror life': could we be about to flip biology on its head? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

25 Feb 202532min

Game-changing prostate cancer test, and magnetic turtles

Game-changing prostate cancer test, and magnetic turtles

In this edition of The Naked Scientists: A new screening test for prostate cancer that can, the inventors claim, accurately catch 96% of cases, and early. Also, why you might want to eschew artificial...

21 Feb 202533min

Halting the progress of multiple sclerosis

Halting the progress of multiple sclerosis

In this edition of The Naked Scientists, we're looking into multiple sclerosis, following the progression of the condition from relapses to neurodegeneration, asking, can we halt the disease in its tr...

18 Feb 202527min

Record-breaking neutrinos, and quantum train travel

Record-breaking neutrinos, and quantum train travel

In this edition of The Naked Scientists: A particle with a record-breaking energy is discovered: but where did it come from? Also, damaged hearts healed using stem cell "patches" of tissue: human clin...

14 Feb 202536min

From Russia with Love: The Science of Hybrid Warfare

From Russia with Love: The Science of Hybrid Warfare

In this edition of The Naked Scientists, we'll find out how Putin and his cadre in the Kremlin play a neverending game of technological cat and mouse... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting...

11 Feb 202531min

Mantis shrimp's punch, and low-methane rice

Mantis shrimp's punch, and low-methane rice

In this week's Naked Scientists Podcast: Uncovering the secret behind the mantis shrimp's giant punch. Also, developing a new strain of rice that produces a fraction of the methane, and shaking virus ...

7 Feb 202532min

Can you grow a building?

Can you grow a building?

This week on The Naked Scientists, we've teamed up with Cambridge University Press and specifically the team behind Research Directions, their suite of new, open access journals that are all about pub...

4 Feb 202533min

Asteroid Bennu's brine, and DeepSeek shocks Silicon Valley

Asteroid Bennu's brine, and DeepSeek shocks Silicon Valley

In this edition of The Naked Scientists: Samples back from space reveal tantalising insights into where the life-linked chemicals that kick-started biology on Earth could have come from. Also, the imp...

31 Jan 202535min

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