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Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast

Probing the weird, wacky and spectacular, the Naked Scientists Special Editions are special one-off scientific reports, investigations and interviews on cutting-edge topics by the Naked Scientists team.

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Star dust Aug 20, 2014

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Stardust returns Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

The evolution of the British peppered moth Aug 19, 2014

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This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Ilik Saccheri and Arjen Van 't Hof of the University of Liverpool describe how the British Peppered Moth changed from peppered to black during the Industrial Revolution in northern England. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Our leaky ancestor Aug 19, 2014

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Going back through the generations, eventually you come to the ancestor of all life on earth, something scientists call LUCA (last universal common ancestor).LUCA lived on a hydrothermal vent deep under the ocean, and probably used energy from the natural acidic gradient to survive and reproduce, using a generator called ATP-synthetase. But now Victor Sojo and his colleagues at UCL have come up with an explanation for what might have gone on, suggesting LUCA has a leaky membrane, which might explain some mysteries surrounding bacteria and archea. Kat Arney asked Victor how this leaky membrane... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

How to make energy from oil-eating microbes Aug 09, 2014

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One of the remarkable things about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico four years ago was the fact that a lot of the contamination was cleaned up by bacteria which simply ate the oil.Now there's more understanding of how microbes exist in oil which could lead to new technologies for extracting energy from oil deposits deep underground.A group of scientists have been studying an asphalt lake in Trinidad and Tobago where it was previously thought microbes couldn't live because of the lack of water, but now microbes have been found.Professor Joel Kostka from the Georgia... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Remembering to live to a ripe old age Aug 06, 2014

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Hello I'm Naked Scientist Hannah Critchlow and I'm concerned about aging. Alzheimer's disease affects around half a million of us in the UK alone, and this number is predicted to increase as the population gets older. However, this week a study suggested that up to a third of cases could be preventable just by changing the way that we live. I spoke to Carol Brayne, Professor of Public Health at Cambridge University. In a collaboration spanning countries, researchers analysed data published from decades of research on 10000s of people across the world and identified several risk factors that... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

In Conversation with Martyn Poliakoff Aug 05, 2014

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Type "mad scientist hair" into Google and the number one result is this man, who is one of the country's leading lights in green chemistry but has also attracted a fan base of thousands online with a youtube presence devoted to bringing chemistry alive for the masses. We catch up with the inspirational Martyn Poliakoff. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Will reading as a child make you a smarter adult? Jul 29, 2014

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Were you a bookworm as a child? If you were, it might be making you smarter as an adult, according to a new study of identical twins, revealing that better reading ability at a younger age is linked to higher intelligence later in life.Kat spoke to psychologist Stuart Richie from the University of Edinburgh, who led the research, to read between the lines. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Do you own a jealous dog? Jul 29, 2014

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Dogs may become jealous if owners pay more attention to another dog. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Is there a genetic link to schizophrenia? Jul 29, 2014

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A large international study has uncovered the strongest evidence yet for a genetic link to schizophrenia. The study, published in Nature this week, is the work of a large collaborative group of scientists known collectively as the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and based at institutions around the world. The new findings highlight important new avenues for exploring and furthering our understanding of schizophrenia, as science reporter Smitha Mundasad explains Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

How windfarms affect seals? Jul 28, 2014

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Seals are using windfarms and under sea pipelines as bases for their hunting and fishing exploits. St Andrews University scientist Deborah Russell and her Dutch colleagues glued GPS trackers to the fur of seals living along the coastlines of Germany and the UK near two active windfarms. The tags beamed back high-resolution data on the movements of the animals which the team were able to plot on maps. It then helped them understand how the seals and their prey are interacting with the windfarms and other new structures in their environment. She spoke to Chris Smith to explain... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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