Naked Scientists Special Editions ENHANCED
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Special scientific reports and investigations by the Naked Scientists team
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Cheers to the Liver! - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.21
The Ancient Greeks understood that the liver was one of the most incredible organs humans possess when they wrote the cautionary tale of Zeus' punishment of Prometheus, in which po…
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Bio-inspired robot swarms - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.21
Biological systems are able to create complex shapes and patterns, like the stripes of a zebra, the shape of your hand or the dynamic displays of a flock of birds. These shapes dev…
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New test for cervical cancer - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.20
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting young women, and it's caused by a virus called Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, which is spread through sexual contact. Th…
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eLife Episode 52: Fossil Flowers, and Fur Seal Parasites - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.19
In this episode of the eLife Podcast, the nerves with a taste for salt, why fur seal pups succumb to hookworms, the oldest fossilised flowers ever found, the monkey business of chi…
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How to cut down on carbon this Christmas - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.19
Christmas is a wonderful time of year, but all of the additional transport and consumption adds up, and we are left with plenty of seasonal rubbish and greenhouse gases. So how can…
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Solar-powered device cleans water - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.17
Clean water is something that we often take for granted, but making it can be a major technological and energy-intensive process. Now, thanks to a system developed by scientists at…
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'Nano-tweezers' for single cell biopsy - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.13
How can seemingly similar cells behave differently? This is a particularly important question when a small change means that a cell does not function properly and several diseases…
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Language development through childhood - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.12.07
Language is all around us, and good language skills are important for getting on in life. But does being good in one language domain, like spelling, mean you'll be good in another,…
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Cuddly Robots Feel Hugs - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.30
When we think of robots we might think of the Terminator, West World, or even something completely different like Big Hero Six - a story about a young boy and his soft medical robo…
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Using gallium as an antibiotic - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.26
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats facing mankind today. A new group in the University of Washington in Seattle, have been working to fight this threat. In their…
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Modelling Malaria - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.23
Every year, hundreds of millions of people contract malaria; this is a parasitic infection spread by mosquitoes. The parasite does two things when it grows in the body: either it c…
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'Real' fake tan fights cancer - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.19
Do you like to lie out on the beach in the summer, or are you more likely to be found hiding in the shade? Well, how you answer might depend on how quickly you seem to get sunburnt…
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Cancer-killing immune cells - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.19
When we think of our immune system, most of us will be familiar with the white blood cells that circulate around our body to target and kill the bacteria and viruses that make us s…
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Can artificial intelligence make medicines? - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.16
We get so many good questions sent to us here at The Naked Scientists, that sadly we can't fit them all into our monthly question and answer shows. So here's an extra slice of scie…
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eLife Episode 51: Transmissible Tumours and LSD Receptors - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.14
The wildlife impact of urban sprawl, how climate change will affect the distribution of mosquito-borne outbreaks, Devil Facial Tumour Disease 2, how LSD works in the brain and gend…
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How WW1 can help head injuries - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.12
Today marks 100 years since the end of World War 1. This conflict caused the deaths of around 16 million people, and the new developments in artillery meant that new and nasty inju…
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Glioblastoma's Effect on Genes - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.11.02
Glioblastoma is an aggressive and often deadly cancer of the brain. Understanding it is vital to improving patient outcomes. In a new study published in Nature Genetics, a group in…
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Targeting immune cells to treat periodontitis - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.10.31
Good dental hygiene is crucial in the fight against gum disease, which can lead to a common condition called periodontitis. It comes about when changes to the bacteria in the mouth…
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Cosmic Collisions: Supermassive black holes - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.10.30
Astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have come up with an explanation for the wobble seen in jets of matter being blasted from regions surrounding some supermassive black…
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1000 years of Tuberculosis - Naked Scientists Special Editions 18.10.26
Nowadays, tuberculosis takes more lives than any other infectious disease. Cases are on the decline but emerging antibiotic resistance threatens to interrupt that pattern. Tamsin B…