Black Holes in Sight

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week we're exploring the cosmos through your senses. How scientists are attempting to see a black hole for the first time, what Saturn sounds like, and what will the surface of Mars feel like. Plus how to make the immune system attack cancer, artificial intelligence invents a magic trick, and how goldfish swap oxygen for alcohol to get through the winter. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.6	Hello.
0:04.6	Hello.
0:05.6	Welcome.
0:06.6	Science and that is the physics, medicine nature time brain life the universe.
0:16.4	This week our scientists are attempting to see a black hole for the first time
0:20.3	plus what Jupiter actually sounds like and what the surface of Mars feels like.
0:25.0	This week we're exploring the Cosmos through your senses.
0:28.0	Plus how to make the immune system attack cancer.
0:32.0	Artificial intelligence invent a magic trick and how goldfish
0:35.9	swap oxygen for alcohol. I'm Isie Clark. I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.
0:42.4	The Naked Scientists.
0:43.0	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First up, a cancer treatment known as immunotherapy has the potential to revolutionize
0:59.2	the way that we treat and manage malignant diseases.
1:02.3	It involves programming the immune system to attack and remove
1:05.1	cancer cells from anywhere in the body. It's at an early stage, but some people with previously
1:09.7	life-threatening cancers have been cured by the technique. For others though, the treatment
1:14.7	has failed. So doctors want to know why. And now we have a clue because scientists in
1:19.1	the US by painstakingly deactivating each of the genes in a cancer cell have discovered which
1:24.8	genes need to be working to make the therapy effective.
1:28.5	Nicholas Restifo led the study and is based at the NIH in Maryland.
1:33.0	For the immune system to see the cancer,
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