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26 October 2008
Disco Psychology - the science of drinking and dancing feature in this week's Naked Scientists. We find out what...
24 October 2008
Poor copper, US chemist Steve Mylon from Lafayette College explains how a wonderful metal has been superficially...
24 October 2008
Is it possible to make a car go 1000mph? Should we believe our cars or our Sat-Navs when calculating our speed? Why can...
23 October 2008
How being a silver surfer can help you keep your marbles, how proteins can be used in burglar alarms and the results of...
20 October 2008
Pitting one alien against another may be the way to fight an invasion, especially if the alien is Japanese Knot Weed -...
20 October 2008
How do you get the best out of your batteries? Should you discharge them completely, or keep them permanently topped up...
19 October 2008
We discover the source of solar energy this week - Nuclear fusion. But how can the process that keeps the Sun burning...
17 October 2008
Author John Emsley explains how a very lazy element redeemed itself
17 October 2008
Why are some clouds dark? Why don't bees stick to their own honey? Why is UV light good for skin conditions, when...
17 October 2008
Why cutting down a precious tree species brought the Nasca people to their knees, how Pompeii is receiving a makeover,...
16 October 2008
Do we really use just 10 per cent of our brains, how to listen to a volcano and reveal the latest way to test unborn...
13 October 2008
Why do songs, even those you hate, sound better the more you hear them? We find out why familiarity can defeat contempt...
13 October 2008
Sulfur podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
13 October 2008
A safer way to test for Down's Syndrome and how sponge-swallowing could reveal oesophageal cancer feature in this...
12 October 2008
New techniques to test for Down's Syndrome and oesophageal cancer feature in this week's Naked Scientists,...
10 October 2008
Why are Ghekkos feet so sticky? Can it snow on mars? Is it possible for someone to spontaneously combust? We answer...
09 October 2008
The latest research on the origin of the HIV virus, how superstitions are formed and why we think everything...
06 October 2008
Why do we have different blood groups, such as A, B, O and rhesus positive or negative? Do animals have blood groups?...
06 October 2008
Using your own red blood cells as a Trojan horse to sneak-in chemicals which boost the power of body scans, the spread...
05 October 2008
We catch up with the latest on cancer this week including an update from the National Cancer Research Institute...
03 October 2008
What is fusion? Can we achieve cold fusion? How useful is nuclear power and is it safe? We look into these questions on...
02 October 2008
What is the link between rat poison, fireworks, fine glass and enemas? Marine chemist Adina Paytan from the University...
02 October 2008
Why we pay too much in auctions and how moving continents can cause climate change. In this episode it is also...
29 September 2008
Hydrogen podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.