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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Does Telepathy Exist?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Naked Scientists, your questions go under the microscope. Do women have a superior memory? What is the evidence for climate change? Can plants get cancer? Why do we sometimes see stars? And has the universe been through multiple big bangs? Join Dr Chris as he puts an astrophysicist, a neuroscientist, a climate researcher and a plant scientist through their paces tackling the questions you've been sending in... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.2

Hello.

0:04.2

Hello.

0:05.2

Welcome.

0:06.2

Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or

0:11.9

time, brain, life, the universe.

0:15.0

This week on the Naked Scientists,

0:18.0

your science questions are going under the microscope,

0:21.0

including, does telepathy exist exist and what does the science

0:24.2

say about it can plants get cancer and has the universe been through multiple

0:29.5

big bangs in its history stay tuned to find out. The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Hello, I'm Chris Smith, and with me this week to answer your questions are Dan Jones.

0:49.4

He's from the British Antarctic survey and he'll be discussing climate change.

0:52.8

Howard Griffiths is a plant scientist from the University of Cambridge who's

0:56.8

trying to solve world hunger by making wheat grow more efficiently.

0:59.8

Kate Stours, she's a neuroscientist and also a UK Fame Lab finalist.

1:04.8

She can tell you why you sometimes see stars.

1:08.1

And talking of seeing stars, Jerry Gilmour is a cosmologist at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.

1:13.4

First up, Kate, here's one for you because Mpho wants to know if women have better memories than men.

1:19.8

He says he can't understand why his wife always appears to remember more than he does.

1:24.5

I love how much personal bitterness there is in this question.

1:28.3

It's suddenly something that people believe.

1:32.3

A recent study found that about 70% of people believe that

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