Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists

John writes in wondering whether the 10,000 steps rule applies eqully to everyone, given t... more

This time on Question of the Week, James Tytko is being given a mental work-out thanks to ... more

Listener Krzysztof has written in to ask how skin is protected from potentially harmful UV... more

Ian from Stockport has had a thought. If heat pumps transfer thermal energy from outside i... more

Bhavesh wants to know how guided missiles find their target. James Tytko took on his quest... more

In response to our programme celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitation... more

Trent wants to know why trees of the same species, in the same geography, seem to change t... more

Sva writes in, asking whether stories of snakes being tamed by human milk have any groundi... more

In some parts of the world, some groups will fire guns directly into the air in celebratio... more

Maddie wants to know what a daring adventurer might find if they journeyed to the centre o... more

Iain wants to know whether recent experiments have gotten us any closer to deciding which ... more

Girts sends a question about which animals can mate to produce viable offspring. How is it... more

Jon wants to know, how do the cells in the human body, in all their variety, differ at the... more

Geoff has written in asking whether AI will offset its vast energy appetite by facilitatin... more

Laurie writes in, wanting to know whether the nuclear reactions which power Mars rovers me... more

Leonard is asking how one acquires Lyme disease, and how doctors diagnose it. James Tytko ... more

Simon wants to know, since we saw a dip in greenhouse gas emissions during the pandemic, w... more