From the first flight to supersonic air-travel was achieved in under 50 years. To discover what made it all possible we look at the advances in...

Should we blow up objects on a collision course with Earth? Or will they do less damage left intact? More importantly, is there a gene for hating...

Super bainite, a surprisingly-strong steel, is the subject of this week's Naked Scientists. We discover how it's made in the metallurgical equivalent...

Later this month, the 2012 Olympics kicks off in London. With hundreds of thousands of people expected from overseas, is this the perfect trigger for...

Why does a head injury, or standing up too quickly, make us see stars? Are slug pellets painful? How do flies fly in an elevator? We take on your...

How do we look for life beyond Earth? And how did it first get started down here? To help us take on these big questions, we explore the science of...

This week, we're introducing the new Naked Genetics podcast - This time, Kat Arney takes a look at the world of top models - not the kind that won't...

This week we explore the role of microbes in drug development, food production and soil fertility. We investigate how bacteria such as Streptomyces...

How do you make a new metal? This week, we follow a novel alloy from PC to plane, finding out how computer modelling and design can help us create...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) sufferers describe symptoms of severe exhaustion, weakness, muscle pain and fatigue. But why, and what is science...