Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast

BBC

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.

Episodes

Driven to End Malaria: World Malaria Day 2026

Moths hear plants, and what fingerprints do for touch

Nocebos, and why the eyes of some species stay shut at birth

Aspirin vs Clopidogrel: The blood thinner battle

Public Success, Private Grief: remembering Peter Cowley

Keeping humans healthy in orbit

Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes

Synthetic sustainable spuds

Scientists say they've bent spacetime

Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth

Naked Scientists SOS

Insect extinctions, and AI shot in the arm for drug design

Storing data with "molecular firecrackers"

Brain-invading bacterium is making fruit flies extra frisky

Speedy, soft robot powered by air alone

Frog toxicity, and what a year's schooling does to the brain

What climate change does to kelp forests

Hollywood helps brain scientists probe thoughts

Personalised medicine, droughts, and dryland research

Evolving flu, and the desert decomposition conundrum