The Naked Scientists Podcast

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The Naked Scientists flagship science show brings you a lighthearted look at the latest scientific breakthroughs, interviews with the world's top scientists, answers to your science questions and science experiments to try at home.

Recent Episodes
  • Africa's cholera surge, and colliding galaxies
    Jun 6, 2025 – 00:35:30
  • Prostate cancer: When should we intervene?
    Jun 3, 2025 – 00:37:15
  • UK invests in 'cyber army', and turning lead into gold
    May 30, 2025 – 00:32:24
  • Titans of Science: Simon Baron-Cohen
    May 27, 2025 – 00:32:59
  • Curing mosquitoes' malaria, and the history of our units
    May 23, 2025 – 00:33:36
  • The rising tide of fungal diseases
    May 20, 2025 – 00:35:16
  • DNA frees man after 38 years, and breast cancer breakthrough
    May 16, 2025 – 00:36:46
  • Titans of Science: Sarah Parcak
    May 13, 2025 – 00:30:32
  • Tough climate future ahead, and self-inflicted snake bites
    May 9, 2025 – 00:37:52
  • How fungi shape our world
    May 6, 2025 – 00:33:50
  • Indus River in Kashmir crossfire, and gene-stealing cancers
    May 2, 2025 – 00:35:13
  • Titans of Science: Andrew Pollard
    Apr 29, 2025 – 00:32:04
  • Malaria fight in jeopardy, and bone collecting caterpillars
    Apr 25, 2025 – 00:36:15
  • Titans of Science: Sara Russell
    Apr 22, 2025 – 00:31:36
  • Martian carbon cycles, and magnetic flip fried Neanderthals
    Apr 18, 2025 – 00:36:46
  • Titans of Science: Richard Thompson
    Apr 15, 2025 – 00:30:50
  • Womb transplant baby, and ancient seafarers
    Apr 11, 2025 – 00:36:48
  • Why are measles cases surging?
    Apr 8, 2025 – 00:30:42
  • Antibiotics affect babies' vaccinations, and space miso
    Apr 4, 2025 – 00:35:01
  • How bad is the air we breathe?
    Apr 1, 2025 – 00:31:17
  • Pig liver transplant breakthrough, and weird early galaxies
    Mar 28, 2025 – 00:35:45
  • AMR unleashed: the silent pandemic
    Mar 25, 2025 – 00:32:22
  • Stranded astronauts return, and the whale pee funnel
    Mar 21, 2025 – 00:33:07
  • The mounting misgivings over microplastics
    Mar 18, 2025 – 00:30:29
  • North Sea ship crash, and super spuds
    Mar 14, 2025 – 00:40:32
  • CRISPR, and the ethics of gene editing
    Mar 11, 2025 – 00:30:34
  • New part of the immune system, and greedier labradors
    Mar 7, 2025 – 00:34:01
  • Incoming: what happens when the next asteroid hits Earth?
    Mar 4, 2025 – 00:31:11
  • Glucose monitor misinformation, and AI dairy farms
    Feb 28, 2025 – 00:35:20
  • What is mirror life?
    Feb 25, 2025 – 00:32:44
  • Game-changing prostate cancer test, and magnetic turtles
    Feb 21, 2025 – 00:33:05
  • Halting the progress of multiple sclerosis
    Feb 18, 2025 – 00:27:42
  • Record-breaking neutrinos, and quantum train travel
    Feb 14, 2025 – 00:36:31
  • From Russia with Love: The Science of Hybrid Warfare
    Feb 11, 2025 – 00:31:36
  • Mantis shrimp's punch, and low-methane rice
    Feb 7, 2025 – 00:32:08
  • Can you grow a building?
    Feb 4, 2025 – 00:33:57
  • Asteroid Bennu's brine, and DeepSeek shocks Silicon Valley
    Jan 31, 2025 – 00:35:25
  • Titans of Science: Charlie Swanton
    Jan 28, 2025 – 00:31:35
  • Malaria infection trial, and weeing chimpanzees
    Jan 24, 2025 – 00:34:15
  • Science of Scotch: How whisky is made
    Jan 21, 2025 – 00:32:36
  • 5 years of COVID, and the hunt for Planet X
    Jan 17, 2025 – 00:31:22
  • Titans of Science: Antje Boetius
    Jan 14, 2025 – 00:30:49
  • Bird flu threat, and what the Romans really did for us
    Jan 10, 2025 – 00:33:37
  • Titans of Science: Trevor Robbins
    Jan 7, 2025 – 00:29:31
  • What science will thrive in 2025?
    Jan 3, 2025 – 00:28:31
  • Titans of Science: Marc Abrahams
    Dec 31, 2024 – 00:29:10
  • The science that defined 2024
    Dec 27, 2024 – 00:28:10
  • The best of 2024!
    Dec 20, 2024 – 00:53:43
  • Titans of Science: David Baker
    Dec 17, 2024 – 00:28:16
  • Food science, ancient human genes, and dark comets
    Dec 13, 2024 – 00:33:49
Recent Reviews
  • M108
    Turn it up!
    Great podcast. The only issue is the low level of recording. Chris and Dominic...please speak up! Some of us work in noisy enviroments and its very difficult to hear. I've even had to turn off the podcast at times because I cant hear half of what you or your guest are saying.
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