Quick Fire Science, from the Naked Scientists
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Quick Fire Science, from the Naked Scientists
Rapid fire science in sixty seconds, or so... We break down the latest science stories into digestible quick-fire podcasts that focus on the facts.
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Kidney Transplants
The waiting list for kidney transplants is one of the longest. Here's Phil Sansom with the QuickFire Science of kidney transplantation, including why...
Gene Therapy
Advances in genetics and molecular biology mean that it is now possible to treat and even cure a raft of disorders for which there was previously litt...
HPV: Human Papillomavirus
Human papillomaviruses are the cause of cervical and head and neck cancers in men and women. About half of the adult population have been exposed to h...
HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Worldwide, nearly 40 million people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Here's the Quick Fire Science, with Phil Sansom... HIV is the h...
Chlamydia
Up to 10% of young people are infected with chlamydia. Here's the Quick Fire Science, from Phil Sansom...Chlamydia is a bacterial infection. It's one...
Driverless Cars
It has been announced by the government that driverless cars will be trialled on the roads of the UK by January 2015. The Ministry for Transport has i...
Supermoon
Last weekend, many people will have noticed the moon looking especially bigand bright. This is because of a phenomenon known as the supermoon. Like th...
Smallpox
US government this week discovered vials of smallpox virus whilst cleaning out an old storeroom. This was shocking, as it was thought that the only 2...
Captive breeding
Last week, the 2nd to last to last wild born Spix's Macaw died. The 40 year old parrot, named Presley, was thought to have inspired the film Rio- abou...
The Lethal Injection
Capital punishment hasn't been used in the UK since 1964, however many countries, including the USA and China, still execute prisoners ever year. This...
The Turing Test
This week a computer program reportedly passed the 'Turing test' for the first time, tricking people into believing it is human. This was part of a co...
Ecstasy
This week, Alexander Shulgin, the so called 'Godfather of ecstasy' died peacefully in his sleep. The 88 year old is best known for introducing MDMA, t...
World's Largest Dinosaur
This week, a farm worker in Argentina stumbled upon what has turned out to be a bone belonging to the largest known dinosaur to have ever walked the p...
Coal Mining Dangers
This week news broke that Turkey had suffered its worst ever mining disaster after an explosion and fire in a mine in Soma claimed almost three hundre...
Asthma
This week the Royal College of Physicians have issued a report looking at the standard of asthma care in the UK. There are over 5 million asthmatics i...
Plane Stowaway
This week, a teenage boy survived the 5 hour flight from California to Hawaii, hidden in the wheel well of a plane. Experts are astonished that he se...
World Autism Awareness Day
Wednesday, the 2nd of April was World Autism Awareness Day so to help you get to grips with this often misunderstood condition here's your Quick Fire...
Black Box Recorders
Now that Malaysian Airways Flight MH370 has officially been acknowledged to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean with all lives lost, attentions ha...
Air Traffic Communication
With the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 still missing after nearly two weeks, some people are asking how you can lose a plane? But with over 6000 aer...
Northern Lights
Last week much of the UK witnessed the spectacular displays of the Northern Lights, but what causes this phenomenal natural light show? Here's your qu...
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics are finishing in Sochi, Russia this week. But it's not just the athletes who've spent the last four years training for the event....
Marius the Giraffe
Last week a young, physically healthy giraffe called Marius in a zoo in Copenhagen was put down, amidst an uproar from animal lovers. The zoo argued t...
Medically Induced Comas
This week doctors are trying to bring Formula One Racing Star Michael Schumacher out of a coma which was medically induced following a skiing accident...
Purple Tomatoes
Purple tomatoes might soon be making their way onto our dinner plates as the genetically modified fruit is currently being mass produced in Canada. Th...
Keeling Curve Crowdfunding
Crowd funding programmes like Kick-starter have been used to raise money for music projects and Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to rais...
Polar Vortices
This week, Hell literally froze over, as the small Michigan town of Hell experienced temperatures of minus 17 degrees Celsius. And Hell wasn't alone t...
Exploring Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012, and it has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater. This w...
Renewable energy generation
The UK government has this week announced changes to its subsidies for renewable energy generation. But how much energy does the UK generate using re...
AIDS Awareness Week
This week is AIDS Awareness Week. It is thought that, worldwide, 35 million people carry the HIV virus, and although current drugs work well to preven...
World Toilet Day
The 19th November was World Toilet Day. Established in 2001, the event seeks to draw attention to global sanitation and health problems associated wit...
What is opium
This week, reports suggest that the 2013 opium harvest in Central and South Asia was the largest on record. But what is opium? Here's your quick fire...
Giant animals
This week archaeologists in Queensland, Australia, found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre-long. Archaeologists have already...
Gunpowder and Fireworks
Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason, why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot! So here's your qu...
Science of Baking
This week saw the final of the Great British Bake Off, a television programme in which 13 people spend a weekend in a tent, baking cakes and bread. Ov...
Invasive Species
It's official: the UK has a slug problem. This week, researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich asked the public for help to help them track do...
The Nobel Prizes
This week, the Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry were awarded. Here's your quickfire science on the life of the prize's founder, Alfred...
Mind Boggling Bog Bodies
A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called 'bog body' with intact skin anywhere in the world. Here's your...
MS Costa Concordia
This week, salvage experts have been trying to raise the MS Costa Concordia, a cruise liner which partially sank near the island of Giglio off the coa...
Giant panda breeding
Zoo keepers in Edinburgh have said this week that they're uncertain whether a giant panda in the city's zoo might give birth to a cub. But why is it s...
Car Cooking Skyscraper
You may have heard this week about a new building at 20 Fenchurch St, in the City of London. The 37-storey skyscraper, which has already been dubbed t...