Clock This! - The Science of the Circadian Rhythm

Clock This! - The Science of the Circadian Rhythm

The body clock goes under the Naked Scientists' spotlight this week. We unpick the mechanisms that enable human cells, plants and even bacteria to track the time of day and alter their activities accordingly, and we hear the evidence that night work makes you put on weight and boosts your diabetes risk. In the news, how cells grafted into the eye restore sight to blind mice, the three genes that can convert scar tissue back into beating cardiac muscle following a heart attack, and electrical stimulation that returns movement to limbs paralysed by spinal injury. And on the subject of the body... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Can a Mobile Phone Compromise your Sperm Count?

Can a Mobile Phone Compromise your Sperm Count?

What's the point of earwax? Does WiFi damage the brain? Can a mobile phone in a trouser pocket dent a man's fertility? In this week's science Q and A show we also brush up on how they get the stripes ...

26 Feb 201259min

ZAP! Lasers on trial...

ZAP! Lasers on trial...

A new liquid crystal laser that can dial-up any wavelength of light you need, a laser-powered projector technology that turns any surface into a touch-screen, and a laser that fires salvoes of X-rays ...

19 Feb 201259min

Reclaiming Wasted Watts - Thermoelectric Generators

Reclaiming Wasted Watts - Thermoelectric Generators

Over two-thirds of the energy in the fuel you put into your car is wasted, most of it in the form of heat that exits along the exhaust pipe. The same is true of large-scale power stations, which are o...

12 Feb 20121h

Do Diet Foods Make You Fat?

Do Diet Foods Make You Fat?

Could diet foods be making you fatter? How do we learn to like the foods we eat? This week, we indulge in the science of appetite, diet and diabetes. We'll find out how our early experiences of foo...

5 Feb 20121h

Are any viruses good for you?

Are any viruses good for you?

Has all the air in the world been breathed before? Are any viruses beneficial to health? Can naked farts transmit diseases? You set the agenda in this Naked Scientists Question and Answer show in w...

29 Jan 201259min

Vitamin D: Shedding light on diabetes, MS and cancer

Vitamin D: Shedding light on diabetes, MS and cancer

Could a ray of sunshine hold the key to preventing MS, diabetes and even bowel cancer? Vitamin D - made naturally in skin exposed to strong sunlight - appears to reduce the risk of developing these, a...

22 Jan 201259min

Mind Meets Machine

Mind Meets Machine

Where do you stand on becoming part person, part machine? This week we hook up with three pioneers in the field of cybernetics including walking cyborg Kevin Warwick, who volunteered his own nervous s...

15 Jan 20121h 1min

What's Inside Your Nappy?

What's Inside Your Nappy?

Do stars form outside galaxies? What causes ringing in the ears? How fast does force propagate? Why do spectacles still work when worn backwards? Is the expanding universe tearing galaxies apart? And ...

8 Jan 20121h 2min

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