Naked Science Scrapbook

Fungi are a biologically important, and often overlooked Kingdom of organisms. In this Naked Science Scrapbook we find o... Read more

A lot of the metals we use every day, from car wheels to cutlery, are made from alloys. In this Naked Science Scrapbook ... Read more

Why do we feel tired or awake at the wrong times when we go on holiday to a different timezone? In this Naked Science Sc... Read more

When companies can't back up their data themselves, they often turn to data centres. But what do they do? In this Naked ... Read more

From DVD players and supermarket scanners to laser pointers and Bond movies, lasers are part of our lives. But just how ... Read more

Huge amounts of energy are lost from power stations and cars as heat. But what if we could harness that heat and turn it... Read more

Most of us have a microwave oven in our kitchen. They make heating up leftovers and the dreaded readymeal much faster th... Read more

Every Christmas, one vegetable divides opinion - Brussels sprouts. Some of us love them, some of us hate them, but eatin... Read more

Millions of people now own compact digital cameras and camera phones that will automatically focus on parts of a scene, ... Read more

How do we tell people apart by using their DNA? From murder investigations to paternity testing, DNA fingerprinting is a... Read more

Fuel cells may be a major energy source of the future, but how do they work? In the latest Naked Science Scrapbook, we f... Read more

Cheese is a major (and tasty) part of our diets and humans have been making it for thousands of years? But how is it mad... Read more

If a diver surfaces too quickly after a dive, they can get the bends, or decompression sickness, causing excruciating pa... Read more

Why are some people short sighted and some people long sighted? And how do we use something more usually associated with... Read more

Being able to fly off on holiday is something we may take for granted. But how does the big metal tube you're flying in ... Read more