The Naked Scientists - Stripping Down Science
Interactive science, medicine and technology weekly live radio show with Cambridge University's Dr Chris Smith. We strip down science and lay the facts bare answering your science questions, interviewing top scientists and catching up with the latest top science news stories.
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Extreme Physiology: Everest to Ocean Floor - Naked Scientists 13.06.13
How can an ascent to the top of Everest help ...
How can an ascent to the top of Everest help to save lives in intensive care? This week we're exploring physiology at the extremes: altitude, depth and cold. How does the human body adapt and cope under these conditions? Also, news of improved gene ...
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Can GPS systems be Spoofed? - Naked Scientists 13.06.06
The science of satellite navigation and how it can be ...
The science of satellite navigation and how it can be fooled or "spoofed", a new system to pinpoint a person within a building to within a metre, and how GPS signals can probe and track volcanic dust clouds. Plus, news of what nuclear bomb tests have...
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Shedding light on LEDs - Naked Scientists 13.05.30
The next generation of LEDs, how LED lighting affects health, ...
The next generation of LEDs, how LED lighting affects health, a new way to fight flu, treating schizophrenia with avatars and bringing 400-year-old frozen plants back to life....
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Do plants get jetlag? - Naked Scientists 13.05.23
This week, how plants keep track of time, how scientists ...
This week, how plants keep track of time, how scientists are breeding cereal crops with ancient varieties to boost diversity and yields, how insects carry viruses between plants, and the chemical in smoke that triggers fire-dependent plants to germin...
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Will it rain tomorrow? - Naked Scientists 13.05.16
How are weather forecasts made? Are they accurate, and if ...
How are weather forecasts made? Are they accurate, and if not why not? And how do we know when extreme weather is on the way? Also, what about on other planets and moons? To find out, we talk to the teams who study weather and climate patterns, both ...
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Gone Viral: Germs under surveillance - Naked Scientists 13.05.09
Under the microscope this week, where new flu viruses including ...
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 they are infecting......
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Art & Antiquities: Conservation and Preservation - Naked Scientists 13.05.02
The conservation and restoration of great art once relied on ...
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 techniques to preserve our cultural heritage....
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Testing Legal Highs - Naked Scientists 13.04.25
What are legal highs, and how do scientists, doctors and ...
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 proves Einstein's theory of general relativity right, a...
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Stem Cells and Gene Therapy - Naked Scientists 13.04.18
We visit the annual British Society for Gene and Cell ...
We visit the annual British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy conference to explore the latest in this exciting area of medicine......
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Meet the ancestors - Naked Scientists 13.04.11
Fossilised dinosaur egg embryos, fish fats on 15,000 year old ...
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......
