
How do Davy's miners' safety lamps work? | Science Questions
May 19, 2015 · Humphrey Davy invented the safety lamp in 1815 to prevent naked flame igniting the so-called fire-damp gas in mines. I believe that basically a gauze shield surrounded the flame.
Are bone conduction headphones safer? | Science Questions
Feb 7, 2025 · Roger - Thanks James. Bone conduction headphones work by converting sound into vibrations that are transmitted through your skull - typically via your cheekbones - directly to your …
CRISPR's ethical dilemmas | Interviews - The Naked Scientists
Mar 10, 2025 · And the two biggest safety concerns, the first is around off-target effects. And what this means is that what if the CRISPR, instead of just hitting the gene you're interested in, hits other …
Georgina Long: tackling melanoma | Interviews - The Naked Scientists
Dec 2, 2025 · Georgina - It is absolutely phenomenal. Ten to fifteen years ago, advanced melanoma or stage four melanoma, the average person would survive nine months. Very few people got to five …
Long-term talc product use linked to cancer | Interviews
Oct 17, 2025 · British consumers have launched legal action against Johnson & Johnson, claiming that long-term use of its talc-based products, including baby powder, may be linked to ovarian cancer and …
Is OCD caused by a bias in the brain? | Interviews
Dec 3, 2024 · We need to try to understand what’s going on inside the brain to bring on these obsessions in OCD. Trevor Robbins is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of …
Can we speed up MS clinical trials? | Interviews
Feb 18, 2025 · James - You started by talking about the kind of multi-arm phase of the trial, using multiple drugs at once. How is that made possible given the rigours of clinical trials usually and the …
Curing mosquitoes of malaria | Interviews - The Naked Scientists
May 23, 2025 · For decades, insecticide-treated mosquito nets have served as a frontline defence against malaria. But their effectiveness is waning as mosquitoes develop resistance to those …
How can we treat hearing loss? | Interviews - The Naked Scientists
Oct 14, 2025 · Historically, technologies like hearing aids, which can make the sound frequencies a person struggles to hear selectively louder, and cochlear implants, which can use electrical signals to …
How do weight loss jabs work? | Interviews - The Naked Scientists
Nov 12, 2024 · How do weight loss injections actually work? John Wilding is a professor of medicine at the University of Liverpool and has published widely on these agents… John - Clinically I trained as a …