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Hello welcome to the naked scientists the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science technology and medicine. With me Adam Murphy.

And with me, Chris Smith,

this week will mass COVID testing in Liverpool

get us out of lockdown,

antibodies to defend the brain

and why we've evolved to laugh.

Plus we look at Earth on the move from our journey through space to how

tectonic plates rearrange themselves how ocean currents bring us warm

weather and how massive storms appear. The naked scientists The Naked Scientists

Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. With an estimated 50,000 new cases per day and according to the Office for National Statistics,

618,000 people infected across the UK at the moment,

that's one person in every 90, the country is now back in a state of lockdown.

This is despite the UK having one of the highest testing capacities in the world now.

Over 20 million tests have been carried out, more than double the number in France, Spain and Italy.

But the reason that the coronavirus is so hard to get on top of in many

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