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Artists impression of an alien spacecraft resembling a flying saucer in space

What might aliens look like?

This month on Naked Astronomy, we're waxing lyricalaboutaliens. What might they look like? Can we apply the ... and Adam Murphy were joined by Arik Kershenbaum to chataboutalien evolution... Adam - In the 19th century, people ... kinds of animals came from. And there were loads of ideasaboutthat, but most of them were wrong. Ben - Yeah. There ...

How to be a Naked Scientist

…edit it into a logical audio piece and write an articleaboutthe research, there were also opportunities to get ... settled in by Izzie, one of the producers, and I setaboutmy first task: finding a worthy news item. I spoke on the phone to researchersaboutgoats preferring smiley faces and also driving ...

IgNobel founder Marc Abrahams, Wisconsin-Madison scientists Molly Jahn, ABC Science Show's Robyn Williams, Naked Scientist Chris Smith, MIT's Kathleen Kennedy and UK science minister David Willetts at the AAAS, 2014.

Naked at the AAAS 2014 meeting

…authorities in their own rights and we’ve been hearingaboutlots of discoveries and challenges that are going on. ... body and modelling that inside a computer. We heardaboutan eLiver for example and an eBrain. So, in other ... if he went to Iran right now. Now, the AAAS meeting is allaboutscience and innovation. For this programme, we’re ...

MARS

Is There Liquid Water on Mars?

…Astronomy, we're mulling over Mars. We'll be chattingaboutthe question of liquid water on the surface of Mars. Is ... joined by Lujendra Ojha from Rutgers University to chataboutwhy Mars fascinates us... Adam - Humanity has knownaboutMars since the ancient times, the Sumerians associated ...

Anna Middleton - Talkingaboutgenes

…wanted to discuss it with her family. But how do you goaboutstarting conversations like this, especially if all ... exec Julian Borra to make a series of short filmsaboutdifferent genetic concepts. Anna - I've been looking at how to start a conversationaboutgenomics with people who know nothingaboutgenomics. ...

Ethics

Ethics and gene editing

…started by asking her to clarify what we mean when we talkabouthuman gene editing or genetic engineering. Jackie - ... we take it as there being two major areas. One isaboutthe use of something like gene editing to eradicate or ... the impact of diseases and disabilities. And the other isaboutaugmenting or enhancing human capacities through ...

Illustration of asteroids travelling towards Earth

Existential risk and maverick science

…of Hollywood’s next apocalyptic blockbuster, but a just-about-possible vision of the future. And in this part of the ... that hit us was 66 million years ago which, if you thinkaboutit, is 660 thousand centuries so the likelihood that ... necessarily what everybody in the public should be worriedabout.In the same way that it would make sense for you to ...

Mapping the Milky Way

…Well, that's really what this project I'm going to talkabout, Gaia, is going to answer, but our approximate number ... stars of which the sun is pretty typical. The sun isabout30,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way and ... the Milky Way that we still think of as the Milky Way areabouta couple of hundred thousand light years from the ...

Lego steam engine model with govener feedback

How do children grasp science reasoning?

We've heard a lotabouthow memory is involved in learning, but when we're ... There are indeed a lot of things involved in learningaboutscience. There's learning certain facts and how those ... itself is more of a process really, isn't it? So, it'saboutthinkingaboutwhat's in front of you, reasoningabout

DNA

UKBiobank: Big data, big release

…the data and trawl through it to answer vital questionsabouthealth and disease. Kat Arney spoke to Professor Peter ... Human Genetics in Oxford, to discover what the fuss is allabout.Peter - The idea behind UK Biobank was to collect a ... would develop other diseases. The very important thingaboutthe prospective study is you measure lotsaboutthe ...

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Nazneen Rahman - Cancer gene screen

…testing tumours. But what can genetic information tell usaboutcancer risk, and the chances of developing the disease ... thing that makes it difficult is cancer is so very common.About一个两个,一个在三个人会得癌症。年代o ... out? Nazneen - Well, probably the ones that people knowaboutmost are the breast and ovarian cancers. Ovarian cancer ...

How a Nuclear Power Station Works

Kat - Now we've just been hearingaboutradiation in your own home, but whataboutthe stuff that creates radioactivity: nuclear ... in the case of the power plant here at Sizewell, it's allabouta fission reaction. To do that, you have to split the ...

Army Helmets, US Army

Brain Hype or Help?

…is bringing an unprecedented flood of informationaboutthe brain. With this, concerns over use, including ... thing or is it something we should be really concernedabout.年代o, it's very important that we actually discuss the ... drugs in healthy people and that's what I'm very concernedabout.我是very concernedaboutinternet buying because you ...

Deer tick

莱姆病在英国:在上升吗?

…in that wood, what determines that? Then you have to thinkabout, well, what proportion of those ticks are infected and ... finding, it's not that people like me and you were talkingaboutit, so then other doctors thinkaboutit or people thinkaboutit, and they take themselves ...

Blue sea

Are you an ocean optimist or pessimist?

Helen: So, given all we knowaboutthe impacts human lives are having on the oceans, and ... that it could all get a lot worse, can we be optimisticaboutthe future of the oceans? Or is it all doom and gloom? ... come. I caught up with Paul to find out how he's feelingaboutthe oceans: Paul: Most of us live in urban environments ...

We share 99.9% of our genes, yet we're so different...

Robert Chapman - Public gene knowledge

…and society. But what does the public actually knowaboutour genes and how they work? That's the question that ... I couldn't say it better. Kat - So tell me a bit moreaboutthe study. What are you actually doing? What are you ... it is published. But we're looking at what people knowaboutgenetics so there are general knowledge questions. ...

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Are we wired to ignore climate change?

…change, why are we - as a species - so bad at doing stuffaboutit? It’s a complex issue, but could it be partly down ... George Marshall argues in his book ‘Don’t even thinkaboutit: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate ... on. These are all the qualities which make us concernedaboutthings is that they’re issues that are here, that are ...

A nighttime view of the Milky Way from Earth.

The End of the Universe

…the dramatic to the slow and ponderous, we're chattingabouthow space will evolve. Ben McAllister and Adam Murphy ... The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) to chataboutthe death of everything... Ben - For as long as there ... believed different things at different times. And then,abouta hundred years ago, things changed. Adam - It was ...

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Prof Mark Jobling - Genes and genealogy

…血统。但实际上我们的基因组能tell usaboutwhere we came from and who we are? Professor Mark ... very short time compared to other species. So, it's onlyabout200,000 years since our species originated. During ... various lines of evidence that humans originated in Africaaboutthat time and then migrated into the old world. ...

Brain schematic

Mental health and the Covid pandemic

…the current Covid crisis... Now, as we just heard from Danaboutkeeping physically fit during the pandemic, there's ... Paul - Yeah, certainly has. And I've just been readingabouta study from the mental health foundation in England, ... of the pandemic and the latest figures from July show thatabouthalf the population had felt anxious in the previous ...

Advances in cancer genetics

…- specific gene faults that we inherit. To find out moreabouthow faulty genes are involved in cancer, and how our ... what are some of the big hitters that we already knowabout, some of the genes that we know really do increase ... that cancers can cluster in families. So we've knownaboutthe BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that were found in the early ...

this is a picture of people standing together

Climate change and population growth

…right now? Kathleen - The world's population is currentlyabout7.8 billion people, and it's growing every year. It's continuing, continuing to grow byabout80 million people per year. Chris - What's that in ... 2 and 3% in some places. Chris - I'm just trying to thinkaboutwhat a 1% growth translates into, because if you, if ...

Ancient DNA

How worried should we beaboutAI?

…from earlier - he’s from Darktrace - what he thoughtaboutthe dangers of AI. Dave - There is absolutely no ... harm. But there are plenty of things we should be worriedaboutthat perhaps evil people might do. Things like ... Well maybe in 10 to 15 years we’ll feel the same wayaboutAI, that it will have changed how we interact with each ...

Virus

China coronavirus: how fast is it spreading?

…Chris - Well what we've now learned, Phil, is a bit moreaboutwhat this agent is. We know it's a member of the family ... in 2002 to 2003 and spread around the world. It infectedabout8,000 people. It causedabout800 deaths in more than 50 countries. This new virus is ...

Junk food

What is the worst food?

…a healthy relationship with food. If you’re thinkingaboutone type of food then it leads to the thinkingaboutgood and bad foods which, again, isn’t really a ... the same, and really the sugars that we should be worryingaboutare what we call ‘free sugars’ or the sugars that ...