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  • Vampire bacteria, "hangry" males, and ants using moonlight

    Vampire bacteria, "hangry" males, and ants using moonlight
    2024/09/10
    This month, Chris Smith hears how blood-thirsty bacteria sniff out wounds to trigger infections, how ants navigate at night, how male and female brains respond differently to starvation, and inflammation linked to premature labour... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    31 分
  • Microbiomes control blood pressure, and the cost of water

    Microbiomes control blood pressure, and the cost of water
    2024/07/31
    This month, evidence that the microbiome is controlling blood pressure - so will we treat hypertension with probiotics in future? Also, plastic is everywhere and an urgent environmental threat, but is the public aware, or do they care? We also consider the economics of animal extinction and species conservation, the price we pay for water, and the role of the "blue carbon" in keeping CO2 in check... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    37 分
  • Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia

    Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia
    2024/04/19
    This month, how animals hibernate and evidence that muscle myosin makes its own heat in the cold, brain scans to reveal how ketamine relieves resistant depression, the way the brain changes when animals build a bond, the evolution of flu outbreaks, and how aphantasia affects autobiographical memory. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    38 分
  • The proteins responsible for feeling cold revealed...

    The proteins responsible for feeling cold revealed...
    2024/04/02
    A problem that's been puzzling scientists for decades is the way our bodies recognise cold stimuli, and researchers at the University of Michigan have finally got to the bottom of it. They've identified the protein GluK2 acts as a sensor in our bodies for cold temperatures, and Sannia Farrukh has been finding out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    4 分
  • Apes reveal language origins, and being dyslexic in science

    Apes reveal language origins, and being dyslexic in science
    2024/03/08
    This month we hear what orangutans can tell us about the origins of human speech, we ask if science making life even harder for dyslexics, where do the scientists we train end up and do they stay in science, and new insights into the songs whales sing underwater... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    36 分
  • Making waves about coastline conservation, and plastic waste

    Making waves about coastline conservation, and plastic waste
    2024/02/14
    This month the connections that human inhabitants have to the coast, why we're still in the middle of a worsening extinction crisis despite international laws and treaties designed to protect nature, the promise of pharmacogenomics and personalised medicine, the plastic pollution problem and how to tackle it, and why water management in the face of a changing climate needs more than just a single solution. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    36 分
  • Bees can't taste pesticides, and how albatrosses get aloft

    Bees can't taste pesticides, and how albatrosses get aloft
    2023/11/30
    In the eLife Podcast this month, signs that bees are oblivious to pesticides in nectar, sea anemone stinging strategies, a new means of cell-cell communication to share growth factors and other signals, how plants make a comeback when ice sheets retreat, and how the world's biggest bird uses wind and waves to good effect to minimise the costs of takeoff... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    35 分
  • Recycled plastics pollute food, and the value of water

    Recycled plastics pollute food, and the value of water
    2023/11/10
    Better awareness of the precious resource that is water, getting a grip on coastal ecosystems and the impact of pollution, why recycled plastics are a threat for food packaging and kitchen utensils, how we can help humans to step up in extreme environments, and the opportunity offered by "lived experience" when it comes to mental health all go under the microscope in this episode of the Cambridge Prisms Podcast. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    37 分