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The Naked Scientist Jul 08, 2013

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Today's episode - how cancers become resistant to chemotherapies, the threat posed by a new strain of flu in China, and a look inside the intestine at its bacterial inhabitants.

Postcards From Space Jul 04, 2013

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This week, how the Voyager space craft is still sending us Postcards from the Edge, after 36 years of space travel, is melting ice shifting the Spin Axis of the Earth, and why you can't exceed the speed of light.

Naked Scientist Jul 01, 2013

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This week, news that plants can do molecular long division; scientists have discovered that plants calculate precisely how quickly to burn off their energy stores overnight so that they run out literally as the Sun rises so they can start photosynthesising again. Also, how a tear-powered contact lens for diabetics can measure their blood sugar.

Space Travel and Red Moons Jun 27, 2013

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Dr Karl discusses the speed of space travel, and why sometimes the moon is red.

Naked Sci 24 June 13: Keeping eyes clear and cancer fighting aspirin Jun 24, 2013

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists with the latest news and a focus on how eyes keep blood vessels in their right places.

20 Jun 13 Jun 20, 2013

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What jabs would you have to have to travel back to the 17th century, does your body get bigger at night and do you get total darkness in the UK summer?

Naked Sci 17 Jun 13: Crumbling concrete, the Tunguska Fireball and teens and tobacco Jun 17, 2013

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists look at what might have caused the "Tunguska Fireball" in 1908, the use of bacteria to repair crumbling concrete and the effect of tobacco advertising on teens.

13 Jun 13 Jun 13, 2013

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Tom Green and our listeners ask Dr Karl why the earth's getting lighter if tens of thousands of meteor dust is landing every year, plus why do different materials feel as though they're at different temperatures while in the same room.

Naked Sci: 10 June 2013 Comfort Eating and Comets Jun 10, 2013

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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists discuss comfort eating, what happened when a comet collided with the Sun, and why boys' names and girls' names tend to sound different in a very particular way.

Peering thru pinholes, weighing planets and how does alcohol work? Jun 06, 2013

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Dr Phil joins dr Karl to discuss how alcohol makes us drunk, why looking through a pinhole sharpens poor vision and weighing planets.

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