Can you run faster on the moon?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2009

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week we're taking on the questions you've waited all summer to find the answers to. We find out whether humans can run faster on the moon than here on Earth, if tea tastes better in china cups, and if talking to plants can help them grow. Plus we look into the world of statistics to learn how many ants it would take to carry a human and discover how many people in the world are having sex right at this moment! Plus, in Kitchen Science, we bring you a watery way to measure upthrust. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:07.0	The Naked Scientists.
0:10.0	Hello,
0:13.0	welcome to a brand new series of the naked scientists.
0:16.0	We're all back together again, the old team.
0:18.0	It is our physics guru and kitchen scientist Dave Ansel.
0:21.0	Oh, hello Dave.
0:22.0	Hi Chris. Also, hello Dave. Hi Chris.
0:22.5	Also our archaeologist in residence
0:25.0	and the maker of the week,
0:26.4	she's with us this week to do the whole show, Diana O'Carroll.
0:29.2	Hello, Diana.
0:30.0	Hello, Diana.
0:31.0	And I'm Chris Smith.
0:31.9	Now, in this week's news, we're going to be hearing how scientists
0:35.3	have discovered a new class of antibody that can neutralize HIV,
0:39.4	and that's a breakthrough that the discoverers say
0:41.7	could bring us a step closer to finding a vaccine.
0:44.0	Also farmers do a critical job.
0:47.0	We couldn't eat without them of course, but where did they actually come from in the first place?
0:50.0	And we're talking about winding the clock back several thousand years and a new form of
0:54.7	Velcro but this one is made from steel and the inventors say that it could be used to
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