Archaeogenetics - The Past in Our Genes

Archaeogenetics - The Past in Our Genes

We explore the marriage of archaeology and genetics in this week's Naked Scientists, finding out how modern genetic techniques are helping to reveal more about our past. We ask what archaeogenetics can tell us about human origins and migration as well as the diseases that evolved alongside us. We explore the genome of a 4000 year old man, which tells us he had dry earwax! Also, new data that could help to predict the Asian monsoon, why dreams help you to remember and how it feels to be a pill - after you've been swallowed. Plus, why many of us might have a little bit of Neanderthal in our... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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HIV Under the Microscope

HIV Under the Microscope

This week, for World AIDS Day, we put HIV under the microscope, and talk to someone who's actually been cured, and the doctor who cured him. Plus, in the news, the UK becomes the first western country...

8 Dec 202056min

Bonus episode: Showcasing Naked Gaming

Bonus episode: Showcasing Naked Gaming

From time to time, we showcase here on the Naked Scientists feed some of the other programmes we make across our Naked Network. So, this week, we're bringing you the latest episode of the Naked Gaming...

7 Dec 202045min

Movement Science: Devotion to Motion

Movement Science: Devotion to Motion

Through November we've been musing over the science of movement, from enormous planetary scales to tiny cellular ones. And so this week, to celebrate our devotion to motion, we bring you our Move n A!...

1 Dec 20201h

Cells On The Move

Cells On The Move

From strange-looking sperm to cancers that spread, we're looking at the light, and dark, sides of cell movement. Plus, a second Covid vaccine approaches the finishing line, but who are the also-rans? ...

24 Nov 202058min

People On The Move

People On The Move

From ancient past to global present, us humans are a migratory bunch. But with climate change redrawing maps of the world, what does the future hold? Plus, the science behind Pfizer's coronavirus vacc...

17 Nov 202055min

Earth On The Move

Earth On The Move

This week, will mass COVID testing in Liverpool get us out of lockdown? Antibodies to defend the brain; and why we've evolved to laugh! Plus we look at the Earth on the move: from our journey through ...

10 Nov 202054min

Animals on the Move

Animals on the Move

This month (November 2020), we're theming our shows around movement. From cells moving at one extreme, to planetary movements at the other! And this week we're kick-starting the series by talking anim...

3 Nov 202055min

Controlling Covid-19: lockdown, or let rip?

Controlling Covid-19: lockdown, or let rip?

This week, news of the people catching coronavirus on purpose; those waiting-out the pandemic in an old nuclear bunker, and the good news that lullabies send babies to sleep regardless of what languag...

27 Okt 202059min

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