Gone Viral: Germs under surveillance
Under the microscope this week, where new flu viruses including influenza H7N9 come from, the threat from extensively resistant tuberculosis and how doctors keep tabs on how bugs are spreading and who...
8 Maj 201353min
Art & Antiquities: Conservation and Preservation
The conservation and restoration of great art once relied on only a good eye and talent with a paintbrush. Now though, scientists and art conservationists are working together to develop new technique...
1 Maj 201353min
Testing Legal Highs
What are legal highs, and how do scientists, doctors and law-makers keep up with new drugs entering the market? Plus, biofuels and why they cost the Earth, the cause of LED droop, a neutron star prove...
24 Apr 201353min
Stem Cells and Gene Therapy
We visit the annual British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy conference to explore the latest in this exciting area of medicine... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
17 Apr 201354min
Meet the ancestors
Fossilised dinosaur egg embryos, fish fats on 15,000 year old Japanese pots, who put the arsenic in the beer, and we tour the Malapa cave site where Australopithecus sediba was discovered... Like this...
10 Apr 201359min
The SKA and Radio Astronomy
We take a tour of the two Australian precursors to the Square Kilometre Array - the Murchison Wide Field Array and the Australian SKA Pathfinder - to discover how big radio astronomy projects will see...
4 Apr 201358min
Naked Genetics Special Episode
The genetic basis of autism goes under the microscope in this special Easter edition of Naked Genetics, from Kat Arney. One per cent of UK children have autism, a complex range of disorders that can b...
28 Mars 201330min
The Future of Digital Storage
What the future holds for digital data storage goes under the spotlight this week - how can we ensure that what we record today - on film, discs or up in the cloud - remains readable for years to come...
21 Mars 201358min
