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Hello and welcome to the naked scientist where this week we're answering your science questions,

including, is the Earth's core cooling down? your science questions, including...

Is the Earth's core cooling down?

How do messages from space probes get back to Earth?

And why sleeping on your front might increase your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease.

I'm Katani and I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists.

The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. So let's begin by meeting the team and we have with us today

neuroscientist Laura Ford from Cambridge University, Andrew Norton, he's an

astrophysicist from the Open University, Marianne Holness is a Vulcanologist geologist and all-round rocker from Cambridge and finally Chris Smith who can answer pretty much any question and I will handle anything genetic see.

Well let's jump straight in then this one I think probably is for you Marion.

How do Toad predict earthquakes?

And that was sent in by Paul what do you think?

You know at first sight it sounds like a really crazy question but in fact it's a

subject of a really serious research effort particularly in China and Japan

because everyone is very very anxious to know when the next earthquake is going to go off and so

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