Extremely Curious: QnA

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

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For extremes month we have an extreme QnA! This week we're joined by astronomer Carolin Crawford, nanoscientist Colm Durkan, Haydn Belfield from the Centre for Existential Risk, and chemist Ljiljana Fruk. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.6	This week, how could pandemics happen?
0:17.6	What's nanotechnology all about?
0:19.7	And what's the most toxic chemical anyone ever dreamed up? It is Q&A time we have a panel of
0:25.1	scientists who are taking on the science questions you've been sending in.
0:28.3	Hello I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists.
0:31.8	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:37.0	Let me introduce the fine panel of people who are going to be answering your questions
0:48.1	for you this week.
0:49.1	Carolyn Crawford, she's from the University of Cambridge and she's at the end of the
0:52.4	skull which looks at things that are
0:53.8	extremely big because you're a space scientist. That's right yes. So we're going to
0:57.3	talk about the universe. Sitting next to Carolyn Comderkin who's also from
1:01.2	Cambridge University and he's concerned with the extremely small,
1:05.3	I'm intrigued.
1:06.3	Down as small as what.
1:07.3	Small as you can get.
1:08.3	How big's that?
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