Potential health benefits of winter swimming
Wild water swimming is becoming ever more popular and, according to a new study published recently in Cell Reports Medicine, combining dips in cold wa...
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
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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.
E-Waste Day: what to do with old electronics?
Who doesn't like to pick up a cold drink from the fridge and sit down to watch a show on their laptop or TV? Electrical appliances have made our lives...
HeLa cells: do you own your own body parts?
A form of cultured cell, known as a HeLa cell, is at the centre of a lawsuit that is being brought against a large scientific company that uses these ...
New painkiller: local and long-lasting relief
Pain relief after surgery is a major headache as we don't have a lot of effective, and safe, options. Opioids in particular, like morphine, are very a...
Why do we keep catching the same diseases?
This week, listener Rick emailed us to ask "Why do we acquire lifelong immunity against some pathogens but not others?" Sally Le Page asked author and...
Vaccines passports in England shown the door
He said he'd introduce them, now Boris Johnson has stepped back from mandating vaccine passports across England for venues like nightclubs. But what's...
Self-assembling filter can remove fluoride
Fluoride is the stuff in toothpaste that helps strengthen teeth. But if there's too much fluoride in the water it softens bones, and children become s...
Moral outrage on Twitter is contagious
Twitter has been the subject of another study, looking at how people's tendency to post tweets in moral outrage is affected by other people on the sit...
bit.bio: a new source of human cells
Scientists and doctors are always after good quality human cells for research and therapeutic purposes, but these can be hard to come by in sufficient...
Feeding birds could be causing harm
Many of us love putting out bird seed and watching birds feast away, and feel we're doing a good deed too, but a new paper out of Manchester Metropoli...