COP28, Swine flu in the UK, and Bennu samples arrive

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

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this week's news pod, we preview the COP28 climate summit with Richard Black and get the latest on a confirmed case of a new strain of swine flu in the UK. Also, we speak to the researcher discovering the capacity for language learning in babies yet to be born, and hear from a scientist who has finally got their hands on a sample from the Bennu asteroid... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:06.0	Welcome.
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0:18.1	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs
0:22.0	in science, technology and medicine with me
0:24.3	Chris Smith. In today's program, what's on the agenda for the COP28 Climate Summit?
0:30.1	What do we know about the new strain of swine flu found in North Yorkshire and samples from the
0:35.4	Benu asteroid arrive in the UK? We talk to the scientist who's just got her hands on some.
0:40.9	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the
0:45.6	Naked Scientists. The COP2828 Summit is getting underway in the United Arab Emirates.
0:59.8	Reducing the global reliance on fossil fuels and an international fund to help in climate
1:04.3	adaptation atop of the UN Climate Summit's agenda.
1:08.4	Richard Black is from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit based in London, and he also used to be the BBC World Services Science and Environment
1:16.5	Correspondent. He's just touched down in the UAE and he's signed in to the
1:20.9	COP summit. When you rock up to the conference venue here, it looks like any other center where you might go, I don't know, to see a concert or this kind of thing.
1:32.0	It's a big complex of buildings.
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