Naked Scientists Special Editions Podcast
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Probing the weird, wacky and spectacular, the Naked Scientists Special Editions are special one-off scientific reports, investigations and interviews on cutting-edge topics by the Naked Scientists team.
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Mental health support online
10/09/2014 Duración: 04minSomething bothering you? Don't want to visit a doctor to talk about your problems? An online tool called 'myGRiST' due to be released early next year to the public, aims to assess your risks and help to identify areas where you could improve your overall mental health. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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EPSRC's Rising Stars
09/09/2014 Duración: 04minFrom 'plastic' solar panels to flexible electronics, and quantum mechanics to regenerative medicine, we found out about the exciting research of the nominated rising star scientists at the British Science Festival... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Sudden death in athletes
08/09/2014 Duración: 06minYou may have heard reports of seemingly healthy young athletes suddenly dropping down dead in the middle of a game. Professor Paulus Kirchhoff from the University of Birmingham studies the genetic defects that lead to this condition- a rare form of heart disease which exercise actually makes worse.At the British Science Festival, Ginny Smith wanted to find out more. She started by asking him how big a problem this condition really is. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Unlocking Stonehenge's secrets
08/09/2014 Duración: 06minPreviously undiscovered monuments surrounding the stone circle have been found, using highly advanced geophysical tools and laser scanners in order to search the landscape and identify what lies beneath Stonehenge... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Parkinson's 'pocket-doctor'
08/09/2014 Duración: 04minA 'pocket-doctor' smartphone app may now help to diagnose Parkinson's, a degenerative motor disease, that was previously very difficult to assess. With symptoms such as voice tremors and walking abnormalities, how does the phone application work? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Bereavement suppresses the Immune System
08/09/2014 Duración: 06minHave you ever heard of someone dying of a broken heart? In fact, it is remarkably common for elderly people who were previously healthy to die soon after their spouse. But why? New research from the University of Birmingham has discovered that it is down to reduced functioning of the immune system during times of stress. This leaves older people susceptible to bacterial infections like pneumonia, which can be deadly. At the British Science Festival, Ginny Smith caught up with Dr Anna Philips and asked her why she had decided to study the health of people after they had lost a loved one. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Colour changing cuttlefish
07/09/2014 Duración: 04minOctopuses and cuttlefish are well known for their astonishing ability to change colour almost instantaneously. Can we copy this system to create a camouflaging material? John Rogers from the University of Illinois reveals all... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Your Immune system vs Cancer
07/09/2014 Duración: 06minCancer is one of the world's biggest killers, and current treatments often have terrible side effects. So scientists have begun looking into ways to help the body's own defenses fight back. When have a bacterial or viral infection, our immune systems go into overdrive to tackle the invader and protect our bodies. If it were possible to harness this line of attack and use it against cancer, this could open up a whole new method of treating the disease.At the British Science Festival, Ginny Smith talked to Louise and Vanessa, both PhD students at Birmingham University, about their research on... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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The problem with passports
26/08/2014 Duración: 04minHave you ever seen somebody in the street and thought you know them, until you get closer and realise it's a different person entirely. Matching faces to memories or pictures is easier for some people than it is for others. But what happens if you're job is dependent on being able to tell the difference between a 2D face in a photo and a person standing in front of you? Hannah Tooley spoke to Dr Rob Jenkins from the Department of Psychology at York University. He's been studying passport control officers in Australia to see how good these professionals are at it, and the results might surprise... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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A Wired Society
19/08/2014 Duración: 30minMemory boosting drugs, the military, the legal system and enhancing athletes mental focus and muscle tone. Where should neuroscience stop? How a revolution in technology is bringing an unprecedented flood of information about the brain and with this, concerns over use. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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The evolution of the British peppered moth
19/08/2014 Duración: 09minThis week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Ilik Saccheri and Arjen Van 't Hof of the University of Liverpool describe how the British Peppered Moth changed from peppered to black during the Industrial Revolution in northern England. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Our leaky ancestor
18/08/2014 Duración: 03minGoing back through the generations, eventually you come to the ancestor of all life on earth, something scientists call LUCA (last universal common ancestor).LUCA lived on a hydrothermal vent deep under the ocean, and probably used energy from the natural acidic gradient to survive and reproduce, using a generator called ATP-synthetase. But now Victor Sojo and his colleagues at UCL have come up with an explanation for what might have gone on, suggesting LUCA has a leaky membrane, which might explain some mysteries surrounding bacteria and archea. Kat Arney asked Victor how this leaky membrane... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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How to make energy from oil-eating microbes
08/08/2014 Duración: 06minOne of the remarkable things about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico four years ago was the fact that a lot of the contamination was cleaned up by bacteria which simply ate the oil.Now there's more understanding of how microbes exist in oil which could lead to new technologies for extracting energy from oil deposits deep underground.A group of scientists have been studying an asphalt lake in Trinidad and Tobago where it was previously thought microbes couldn't live because of the lack of water, but now microbes have been found.Professor Joel Kostka from the Georgia... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Remembering to live to a ripe old age
05/08/2014 Duración: 07minHello I'm Naked Scientist Hannah Critchlow and I'm concerned about aging. Alzheimer's disease affects around half a million of us in the UK alone, and this number is predicted to increase as the population gets older. However, this week a study suggested that up to a third of cases could be preventable just by changing the way that we live. I spoke to Carol Brayne, Professor of Public Health at Cambridge University. In a collaboration spanning countries, researchers analysed data published from decades of research on 10000s of people across the world and identified several risk factors that... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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In Conversation with Martyn Poliakoff
04/08/2014 Duración: 17minType "mad scientist hair" into Google and the number one result is this man, who is one of the country's leading lights in green chemistry but has also attracted a fan base of thousands online with a youtube presence devoted to bringing chemistry alive for the masses. We catch up with the inspirational Martyn Poliakoff. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Is there a genetic link to schizophrenia?
28/07/2014 Duración: 04minA large international study has uncovered the strongest evidence yet for a genetic link to schizophrenia. The study, published in Nature this week, is the work of a large collaborative group of scientists known collectively as the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and based at institutions around the world. The new findings highlight important new avenues for exploring and furthering our understanding of schizophrenia, as science reporter Smitha Mundasad explains Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Do you own a jealous dog?
28/07/2014 Duración: 05minDogs may become jealous if owners pay more attention to another dog. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Will reading as a child make you a smarter adult?
28/07/2014 Duración: 04minWere you a bookworm as a child? If you were, it might be making you smarter as an adult, according to a new study of identical twins, revealing that better reading ability at a younger age is linked to higher intelligence later in life.Kat spoke to psychologist Stuart Richie from the University of Edinburgh, who led the research, to read between the lines. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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The true cost of farming?
27/07/2014 Duración: 04minWhen you're deciding what to have for dinner tonight, you might like to think about the environmental impact the food you're choosing. It's long been known that vegetarian crops take up less room, and need less energy to grow than meat from farm animals. But which are the worse offenders and what are the numbers involved? Now new research is showing that beef from cows is doing a lot more damage than anything else. Georgia Mills spoke to Ron Milo of the Weizmann Institute of Science to find out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists