The Psychology of Drinking and Dancing
Disco Psychology - the science of drinking and dancing feature in this week's Naked Scientists. We find out what your dance moves say about your genes and why drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes m...
25 Okt 200857min
Fusion - The Real Solar Power
Nuclear fusion is the power source inside the Sun - so can we copy the physics of the stars to generate energy here on Earth? This week, we find out how nuclear fusion works, and how to mimic a star o...
18 Okt 200856min
How Does a One-way Mirror Work?
New techniques to test for Down's Syndrome and oesophageal cancer feature in this week's Naked Scientists, along with the nanotechnology that may let you climb walls like spider man! We also take on ...
11 Okt 200858min
Catching Up with Cancer
We catch up with the latest on cancer this week including an update from the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Birmingham. We hear how computers are helping doctors to read mammograms, ...
4 Okt 200858min
Young at Heart - Healthy Ageing
This week, how to live longer and look younger with the science of ageing! We discover how repairing damage to DNA could prevent the diseases associated with old age, and find out how to keep your sk...
27 Sep 200857min
Superbugs - MRSA and C. diff
Superbugs and hospital acquired infections go under the microscope on this weeks Naked Scientists. We find out why Clostridium difficile has become such a problem, how to keep bacteria away from surf...
20 Sep 200856min
Why do we Stop Noticing Smells?
There's a bulging mailbag of science questions for the Naked Scientists this week, as we find out why we stop smelling smells, whether we can use viruses to kill cancer and why crisp and sweet packets...
13 Sep 200857min
The Large Hadron Collider
The biggest science experiment in the world - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, will start on September 10th. So this week we peer inside a proton and discover how the LHC works to help scientists ...
6 Sep 200856min
