Naked Science

"Naked Science" strips away the layers of a scientific investigation into one of the big mysteries of our time, revealing through expert analysis realistic scenarios that either confirm or deny long-held assumptions and misconceptions.

Scientists explore Pluto from its discovery in 1930 to the New Horizons spacecraft mission which arrived in 2015. Once a planet, could the history and surface of this "gas giant" be more than meets the eye? And what can it tell us about our massive universe?

How the earth's atmosphere came to be.

There is a theory that scientists once dismissed as absurd - that long ago the Earth became so cold every inch of it was entombed in ice. The whole planet became one vast snowball lasting for ten million years. Naked Science probes this controversial theory, looking at the proof of global glaciations in the hot, dry deserts of South Australia. We investigate the theories of how our planet entered this deep freeze and how life could have survived this global catastrophe and what caused it to end? Some even suggest that Snowball Earth brought about the evolution of multi-cellular life form and we look at what would happen to our lives if the ice was to return.