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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Audience Questions: Naked Scientists LIVE!

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Here are a few extra bits from our live show as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, recorded back on 11th March 2020 before the rest of the festival was cancelled, that we couldn't fit into this week's episode, but that we thought you might enjoy, nonetheless. To remind you of our panel - there's geneticist Giles Yeo, chemist Ljiljana Fruk, animal behaviour expert Eleanor Drinkwater and planetary geoscientist David Rothery, and former Naked Scientist Dave Ansell. Presenting the show were Adam Murphy and Chris Smith... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

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0:26.0

T.S.B. proud partners of the Pride of Britain Awards. Hi, Katie here from the Naked Scientists.

0:43.6

I hope that you're all well, and that you enjoyed our show this week,

0:47.9

which was a recording of the live event we did

0:50.7

as part of the Cambridge Science Festival Festival back on the 11th of March

0:55.0

before the rest of the festival was cancelled.

0:58.0

Now here are a few extra bits from our live show

1:02.0

that we couldn't fit in to the main show this week, but that we thought you might enjoy, nonetheless.

1:09.0

So let me remind you of our panel, there's geneticist Gelsio, chemist Lilliana Fruck, animal

1:15.3

behavior expert Eleanor drink water and planetary geoscientist David Rothery

1:20.8

and former naked scientist Dave Ansel.

1:23.7

So I'll hand you over now to our presenters Adam Murphy and Chris Smith. Who have we got there? What's your name, sir?

1:37.0

Hi, my name is Matt.

1:38.0

You mentioned earlier about learning new colours from science and from butterflies. Can you explain

1:45.8

Vanta Black? Vanta Black? Yeah the blackest material. Ah the blackest

1:51.2

is? Ah yes it's sorry. So basically these type of colors don't stem from any organic compounds, but they

2:00.0

stem from the nanoscale arrangement of biopolymers.

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