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How are new variants of coronavirus found?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team discover how new variants of the coronavirus are found, how the World...

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

Join Chris Berrow from the Naked Scientists this week, as we look at a new way of speeding up coronavirus testing,...

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• 7 days

The science to expect from 2021

Meet the fabulous science we can expect in 2021: from the Large Hadron Collider reopening, to the COP26 climate...

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• 14 days

Special Naked Scientist Stories from 2020

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

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• 21 days

Special Naked Scientist Stories from 2020

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

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• 21 days

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

Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team reflect on some of the sensational science we’ve reported on this...

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• 28 days

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

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team investigate how much of a threat the new strain of coronavirus is, what...

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• 1 month

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

The Naked Scientist team look at the latest coronavirus vaccine, why scientists invented vaccines you can inhale,...

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• 1 month

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

How Britain became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, a breakthrough in artificial vision - beaming...

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• 2 months

Squats, globe skimmers and early human migration

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

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• 2 months

Covid vaccines, and the science of people moving

This week on 5 Live Science - a second Covid vaccine approaches the finishing line, but who are the also-rans? We...

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• 2 months

How our planet moves

We have the latest on the potential coronavirus vaccine, the UK scientists trying to extract oxygen from the moon,...

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• 2 months

Movement of animals and protecting bio-diversity.

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team look at the latest science news, including mass coronavirus testing in...

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• 2 months

Barrington v John Snow: How best to control Covid-19?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team with science news stories and analysis. Recorded before the new lockdown...

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• 3 months

Barrington v John Snow: How best to control Covid-19?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team with science news stories and analysis. Recorded before the new lockdown...

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• 3 months

Barrington v John Snow: How best to control Covid-19?

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team with science news stories and analysis. Recorded before the new lockdown...

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• 3 months

Catching Corona Virus on Purpose

The naked scientist explores why people are catching corona virus on purpose, a breakthrough in recycling plastic,...

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• 3 months

Can you catch Covid twice?

The Naked Scientists ask if you can you catch Covid twice? They look at whether an asteroid might be one of our old...

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• 3 months

Nobel Prizes, Attenborough's new film, and Treating Trump

This week the team take a look at the science behind the latest headlines, including the cocktail of drugs used to...

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• 3 months

Science of Vegetarianism

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist with the latest science news including a look at our efforts to stop the...

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• 4 months