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    • 4.6 • 520 Ratings

The Naked Scientists flagship science show, includes the latest science news, interviews with top scientists, hands-on science experiments and answers to your science questions.

    The Right to Repair: Get your fix

    The Right to Repair: Get your fix

    Whatever happened to make do and mend? Many of us, it seems, have lost the ability to fix the things we buy. So are manufacturers on a mission to make things impossible to fix, forcing us to buy new ones? Or should we be taking more personal responsibility to reduce waste? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

    • 29 min
    Nerve interfaces and infrared fossil finding

    Nerve interfaces and infrared fossil finding

    In the news, scientists seeking to make measuring animal welfare a top priority on farms. Machines seeing the original chemicals in the bodies of fossilised animals. And why superglue might be the key to superior plastic recycling. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

    • 30 min
    Trick or treaty: the high seas agreement

    Trick or treaty: the high seas agreement

    The UN high seas treaty hopes to turn the tide on the biodiversity crisis in the ocean. Will it work, and will protecting 30% of the high seas be sufficient? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

    • 33 min
    HIV case cured by umbilical cord stem cells

    HIV case cured by umbilical cord stem cells

    How doctors in the US have "cured" a woman with HIV, does Venus have volcanoes? Reexamining 30 year old probe footage has got scientists wondering, and signs that an artificial sweetener can affect the immune system... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

    • 30 min
    Q&A: How will astronauts shower on the moon?

    Q&A: How will astronauts shower on the moon?

    What happens when you put a space scientist interested in looking for alien life, a geologist studying some of the earliest life on Earth, a psychologist, and a linguist in a radio studio? Well hopefully a really interesting conversation and answers to some of science's - and your - big questions, because that's the line up for our Naked Scientists "ask us anything" QnA call-in this week: you supply the questions and we'll provide the answers. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

    • 48 min
    Roman dildos and hackers targeting pets

    Roman dildos and hackers targeting pets

    Take a daily brisk walk and take 25% off your mortality rate, the northern - and southern - lights and why they've been so pronounced of late, and have scientists discovered the world's first Roman sex toy? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

    • 30 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
520 Ratings

520 Ratings

Lauren Rentz ,

Diverse bites of good science

What I love most about this podcast is the diverse range of topics you get from episode to episode and the ability to dive into a consolidated view of that scientific area.

Groß traveller ,

Great show, year after year!!

I have been listening to this show for a few years, and it’s as good as ever. Fascinating topics with great delivery.

KXDR1 ,

Wonderful Podcast

Generally easy to understand. Not boring. Fun. Chris is great.

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