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Speeding Up Covid Testing, Predicting Who Gets 'Long Covid', and How Video Games Change How You Think Jan 17, 2021

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Join Chris Berrow from the Naked Scientists this week, as we look at a new way of speeding up coronavirus testing, predicting who’s going to get “long Covid”, and how video games are using sight and sound to change the way you think.

The science to expect from 2021 Jan 10, 2021

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Meet the fabulous science we can expect in 2021: from the Large Hadron Collider reopening, to the COP26 climate summit in Scotland, to - hopefully - an end to the pandemic!

Plus, how to make a good new year's resolution...

Special Naked Scientist Stories from 2020 Jan 03, 2021

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From a 46,000 year old ice bird, to life aboard a space shuttle, some of the more curious stories from 2020 from the Naked Scientists.

Cake, Cows, Climate Change: Best Of 5 Live Science, 2020 Dec 27, 2020

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Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team reflect on some of the sensational science we’ve reported on this year. From cakes on the barbie, to cow co-moo-nication.

The new strain of coronavirus, George's Marvellous Medicine, and musical computers Dec 20, 2020

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team investigate how much of a threat the new strain of coronavirus is, what would happen if you actually took George’s Marvellous Medicine from Roald Dahl’s book and music legend Rick Wakeman helps answer the question "can computers give Beethoven a run for his money?

This podcast was recorded before the Prime Minister’s announcement about new coronavirus restrictions on the 19th December.

The covid vaccine, research into AIDS, and cutting the carbon in crisps Dec 13, 2020

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The Naked Scientist team look at the latest coronavirus vaccine, why scientists invented vaccines you can inhale, what we’ve learnt from four decades of research into AIDS and why Covid-19 has a vaccine but not HIV.

The Coronavirus Vaccine, artificial vision and how science and technology came together to save Romain Grosjean Dec 06, 2020

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How Britain became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, a breakthrough in artificial vision - beaming images directly into the brain! And how science and technology came together to save the life of formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean

Squats, globe skimmers and early human migration Nov 29, 2020

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This week, the Naked Scientists celebrate a month of movement science with a movement-themed Q&A show.

Covid vaccines, and the science of people moving Nov 22, 2020

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This week on 5 Live Science - a second Covid vaccine approaches the finishing line, but who are the also-rans? We look at who’s most likely to get the vaccine first and whether we’ve got that pecking order right. And a longer look at the science of people moving.

How our planet moves Nov 15, 2020

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We have the latest on the potential coronavirus vaccine, the UK scientists trying to extract oxygen from the moon, and we continue our series looking at movement - this week it’s how our planet moves, from its journey through space to how the atmosphere brews up storms.

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