Biomimicry: Borrowing from Biology
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On Britain streets, you unknowingly see, extraordinary heroes who look just like me. |
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| 0:35.0 | Hello. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:38.0 | Science and that is to say physics, medicine, nature, space, time, brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello, this week, the crickets that are showing scientists how to make improved hearing aids better wind turbines |
| 0:53.8 | thanks to dragon flies and the aircraft that repairs itself. |
| 0:57.8 | This week we're looking at bio-inspired technology. |
| 1:01.1 | Plus in the news, why heart disease begins much earlier than we thought, whether science publishing |
| 1:07.1 | is facing a crisis and the future of satellite navigation. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Izzy Clark. I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked |
| 1:14.9 | Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK. |
| 1:20.4 | UK. in every 100 suffers from the brain condition epilepsy which can lead to fits and seizures. |
| 1:35.1 | It's very disruptive for an individual's life and up to a third of people with it can't |
| 1:39.7 | adequately control their condition with drugs. Now a team from Cambridge University have designed a brain implant that can release tiny doses of anti-epilepsy medication, |
| 1:48.0 | precisely where and only when they're needed. |
| 1:52.0 | Chris Proctor designed the system. only when someone's having an epileptic seizure what's actually going on in their |
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