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1 month ago | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
Alan writes in, acknowledging that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation purposes. Given the shifts in poles and field intensity we experience due to convection currents in the Earth's core, how do they stay on course? James Tytko asked Miriam Liedvogel, professor of ornithology, to help find the answer... James - The best supported ideas include the presence of a tiny compass needle of magnetic iron oxide in the beaks of some birds.
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1 month ago | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
Silke is writing all the way from French Polynesia, asking what's best to do with all the plastic rubbish she picks up from the beach, and whether burning it is advisable. James Tytko asked Richard Lampitt from the National Oceanography Centre to help find an answer...
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2 months ago | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
PodcastsQuestion of the WeekDoes thalidomide alter DNA? The past treatment for morning sickness caused birth differences in children born in the 1950's Presented by James Tytko. BABY_DNA.jpg Listener to the show, Elaine, wants to know whether her mother, who was a thalidomide baby, might have passed on effect of the drug to her children. Thalidomide was a treatment for morning sickness which caused severe birth differences in children born to mothers who used the drug.
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2 months ago | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
PodcastsQuestion of the WeekHow do skin creams penetrate the skin? Finding the gaps in a biological brick wall... Presented by James Tytko. SKIN.jpgGarth wants to know, given the skin can block water from passing through it, how do certain skin creams allege to permeate into our body? James Tytko took on the question with help from Richard Guy, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Bath... Related Content
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
Kevin wants to know, assuming many of us will be driving electric cars in the future, what will happen to the vast quantities of petrol currently refined from crude oil? Will we scale back production? Or can industry adapt? To help James Tytko with the answer, we hear from Professor Nilay Shah, Director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London...
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
PodcastsQuestion of the WeekDid chewing gum cause my tinnitus? Could it be a case of crossed wires in the nervous system... Presented by James Tytko. George writes in to ask whether his gum-chewing habits are related to his tinnitus, or whether it's just a coincidence that it comes back when he gets back into the habit. James Tytko investigates, with help from ear, nose and throat doctor Malcolm Hilton... Related Content Biology | Chemistry | Engineering | Medicine
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
PodcastsQuestion of the WeekWhy might dreams change at altitude? The science of vivid night visions... Presented by James Tytko. SNOW-MOUNTAIN In our Question of the Week, Andrew wants to know why many people may experience dreams differently when holidaying in the mountains. To find out what might be behind the 'high-definition' dreams associated with high places, James Tytko sought the help of Andrew Murray, Professor of Metabolic Physiology at the University of Cambridge...
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
The climatic consequences of a time before the seven seas... Presented by James Tytko. PANGEA.pngDamian wants to know, if at one stage all of the continents were joined together, what was on the other side? Was it all just water? James Tytko investigated whether this was the case, and what the consequences would be for conditions on Earth of one giant global ocean... Related Content Earth Science | Engineering | Physics Engineering | Physics | Technology
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
thenakedscientists.com | James Tytko |Chris Smith
Ongoing work includes trialling electrode therapy and psychedelics... Presented by James Tytko. Pervasive misconceptions about what OCD is may have stood in the way of making progress towards better treating the condition. Keeping your room tidy is not necessarily a sign that you have a psychiatric condition, despite what someone might claim in passing.
